Volume / Number: 6 / 740
| CLA | 740 |
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| Script | Anglo-Saxon Half-Uncial |
| Date | VIII¹ (701 - 750) |
| Origin and Provenance |
Written doubtless in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent. Provenance Cambrai Cathedral. The number 133 (saec. XVII) is entered on fol. 1. |
| CLA Vol. | 6 |
| TM Number | TM 66909 |
| Support | Parchment |
| Contents | Philippus Presbyter, Expositio in Iob. |
| Script Commentary |
Script is a curious, exotic half-uncial by an expert Insular hand: the hasta of f is almost on the line; the form of g is unusually graceful; i-longa is used initially and for the semi-vocal sound; suprascript u, at line-ends, resembles a bird in flight; y is undotted; z recalls Insular type; an Anglo-Saxon minuscule hand, saec. VIII or IX, supplied many omissions; numerous other corrections by eighth- and ninth-century hands but chiefly by one expert scribe who uses uncial ꝺ and an angular uncial A and ꞇ; a too zealous twelfth-century reader rather roughly corrected the manuscript up to fol. 154, expanding unfamiliar Anglo-Saxon abbreviations, separating words, and even modernizing the original forms of letters to suit his times. |
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| Last modified | 27 June 2017 |