Volume / Number: 8 / 1173

• Darmstadt Germany Hessische Landes- und Hochschulbibliothek MS 752 (foll. 2–3, 6–7, 9, 12–13, 16, 18–19, 22–23, 25–35, 38–48, 58–63, 65–72) [palimpsest old]

Written in a German centre under Anglo-Saxon influence, presumably at Lorsch. Used in the twelfth century for a manuscript of Vitae Sanctorum. Belonged to the Benedictine monastery of Grafschaft near Arnsberg: the inscription 'Liber sci Alexandri mris I gscaph' (saec. XV) stands on fol. 1, and 'graschap' (saec. XV) is seen on the front cover.

Script is an early, well-formed minuscule by several scribes, some showing strong Anglo-Saxon influence, others a more diluted type seen in many Lorsch manuscripts: a has three forms: the open a, the half-uncial, and the normal Caroline; d is mostly uncial; r and s have two forms; ligatures are partly of the Caroline type, partly of the Insular. Numerous marginal notes in smaller Caroline minuscule saec. IX (on foll. 42v, 43v, etc.) refer to the liturgical offices for the days the homilies were to be read.

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 978.

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