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• Gotha Germany Forschungsbibliothek Gotha Membr. I 75 (foll. 23–69)

Written probably in the same Anglo-Saxon scriptorium which produced the Reichenau grammatical fragments dealt with in CLA 8.1124, presumably on the Continent.

Script is partly a pointed Anglo-Saxon minuscule of the South English type, with long descenders and Ᵹ with the protruding chest, and partly a compressed Anglo-Saxon majuscule which changes completely to minuscule and uses an Arabic flat-topped 3 for g; this debased though characteristic type is strongly reminiscent of some of the hands in the grammatical fragments from Reichenau, but certainly not written there (cf. CLA 8.1124, 8.1125, 8.1126, 8.1127, and 8.1129). Corrections partly in contemporary compressed Insular majuscule, partly in Caroline minuscule saec. IX. Poems in Caroline minuscule saec. VIII–IX and IX are seen on foll. 23–25v.

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 1420b.