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Volume / Number: 6 / 714

CLA 714
Shelfmarks
  • Arras France Bibliothèque Municipale 764 (739) (foll. 134–181)
Script Anglo-Saxon Majuscule and Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII (701 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in England. Belonged to the Abbey of St Vaast at Arras: the 1628 ex-libris 'Bibliotheca monasterii S. Vedasti Atrebatensis 1628' stands on fol. 1.

CLA Vol. 6
TM Number TM 66881
Support Parchment
Contents Isidorus, Liber Prooemiorum, De Ortu et Obitu Patrum.
Script Commentary

Script, by more than one hand, is partly Anglo-Saxon majuscule verging on minuscule with s frequent, partly rapid Anglo-Saxon minuscule: z has the prancing form, contiguous aꞇ have a common head-line. Two Old-English glosses on fol. 174v: stuppa (hendu), capillis (her). The text, saec. XII, on fol. 163v, originally left blank, seems to be in cipher.

Notes

☛Bischoff, MAS 1 p. 183.

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