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Volume / Number: 10 / 1443

CLA 1443
Shelfmarks
  • Innsbruck Austria Universitätsbibliothek Fragm. 72
  • Vienna Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Lat. Ser. nov. 3643
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written in an Anglo-Saxon centre, presumably in Germany to judge by the script. Later history unknown. The Innsbruck fragments were taken from two bindings once belonging to the 'Wappenturm-Bücherei', which formed part of the old Innsbruck court library.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67630
Support Parchment
Contents Ps- Hegesippus, De Bello Iudaico (3.2–3); Flavius Iosephus, Bellum Iudaicum (3.2–3).
Script Commentary

Script is a stately Anglo-Saxon minuscule: g is strikingly slender; r is rather broad; descenders are of uniform length.

Notes

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 1548.

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