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Volume / Number: 8 / 1125

CLA 1125
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  • Karlsruhe Germany Badische Landesbibliothek Fragm. Aug. 117
Script Anglo-Saxon Mixed Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in an Anglo-Saxon scriptorium presumably on the Continent, probably the centre which produced the Gotha Aldhelm and other grammatical texts mentioned in the preceding item. The fragments come from the bindings of Karlsruhe MSS Aug. 176 and 241.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67265
Support Parchment
Contents Diomedes, Ars Grammatica (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script, by two hands, is a large ungainly Anglo-Saxon minuscule mixed with some majuscule elements: occurs in the form resembling a flat-topped 3; the majuscule form of S is the rule.

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