Volume / Number: 2 / 194b

• London United Kingdom British Library Egerton MS 1046 (foll. 17–31)

Written, it would seem, in Northumbria, probably in the centre which produced the Durham Cassiodorus (CLA 2.152). This part and the part in Anglo-Saxon minuscule described in the preceding item are complementary and apparently were kept together from the beginning. Bought by the British Museum from William Pickering in 1843.

Script is a compressed Anglo-Saxon majuscule of a distinct type found in the Durham Cassiodorus (CLA 2.152) and in certain parts of the Gospels, Cambridge Univ. Kk. i. 24 (CLA 2.138): d, n, r usually have the minuscule form, S mostly the uncial; here and there at the beginning of words uncial A occurs with the bow very pointed or thorn-shaped, and occasionally uncial M; two forms of uncial N occur: one has the first upright extended below the line, the other has the middle stroke broad and bending upwards at the end; minuscule r and ꞅ go well below the line; i-longa is frequent.

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