Volume / Number: 8 / 1195

• Freiburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek 702

Written presumably in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent, perhaps at Echternach. Found in an old rent-roll of the monastery of Tholey near Trier by Mr H. Jonas of Saarbrucken, from whom the Freiburg University Library bought it in 1913.

Script of the argument on foll. 1–2 is an English uncial vaguely recalling the Northumbrian type: uncial A has a shallow oval bow; the two bows of M are almost closed; S is often top-heavy; the Anglo-Saxon forms of Ᵹ, t, y (with both branches curving to the right), and other letters occur in the uncial text; script of the capitula on fol. 2v is a bold Anglo-Saxon majuscule: d, n, and r have both majuscule and minuscule forms; S is regularly majuscule.

☛CLA date changed to follow N. Netzer, Cultural interplay in the eighth century (Cambridge 1994), p. 116.

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