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• Manchester United Kingdom John Rylands Library MS Lat. 15

Written in the Germanic area around Lake Constance, probably in some centre with Anglo-Saxon connexions, as early corrections go to show. Belonged to the monastery of Murbach, whence probably it originated: on fol. 203v stands the familiar fifteenth-century entry ‘Orate pro domino bartolomeo abbate Murbacensi’. Later in the possession of G. Libri, who sold it in 1859. Came to the John Rylands from the library of the Earl of Crawford.

Script is an early minuscule with some cursive elements of a type written in the area of Lake Constance: open a prevails; the shaft of h often bends to the left; t has mostly the cursive form; z has the tall Germanic form with full-blown bows for the first and last strokes; numerous ligatures are used, nt occurring even in mid-word. Corrections by an Anglo-Saxon hand are seen on foll. 107 and 194v.

☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 2678.

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