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Volume / Number: 7 / 851

CLA 851
Shelfmarks
  • Basel Switzerland Universitätsbibliothek N I 2 (fol. 5)
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in a German scriptorium under Anglo-Saxon influence. The leaf was used to strengthen the binding of a book printed at Strasbourg in 1566 and presented to Huldricus Coccius by Adam von Bodenstein (†1577).

CLA Vol. 7
TM Number TM 66990
Support Parchment
Contents Vita Sancti Apollinaris (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is a gauche Anglo-Saxon minuscule with a considerable admixture of majuscule elements: a is mostly open; uncial is the rule; R and S are mostly majuscule.

Notes

☛Gamber, CLLA 278f .

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