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Volume / Number: 8 / 1143

CLA 1143
Shelfmarks
  • Kassel Germany Universitätsbibliothek 2° Ms. theol. 267
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written most likely in England, possibly in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent. Served as an envelope for a book of exercises, according to a note saec. XVIII.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67282
Support Parchment
Contents Cassianus, Collationes (7.30–8.1).
Script Commentary

Script is a rather stiff, compressed, slim Anglo-Saxon minuscule with some majuscule elements, namely uncial A and open a with the upper parts of the two bows running together in a straight line; g resembles a flat-topped elongated 3; R and r, more often than S; y has both branches curving to the right.

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