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Volume / Number: 8 / 1225

CLA 1225
Shelfmarks
  • Bad-Hersfeld Germany Stadtarchiv Lat. 3
  • Bad-Hersfeld Germany Stiftspfarrei without number
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in an Anglo-Saxon centre in Germany, possibly at Hersfeld. The fragments were used at Hersfeld for binding accounts; the date '1574' is entered twice on Stadtarchiv fol. 1.

CLA Vol. 8
TM Number TM 67359
Support Parchment
Contents Isidorus, Etymologiae (7.1.13–24, 2.13–30, 12.2.12–21, 4.17–29).
Script Commentary

Script is an Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a Germanic type: a occurs in both open and closed forms; is uncial; is long and has a pointed chest; a broad form of majuscule N occurs.

Notes

☛Bischoff, Katalog 1 no. 1525.

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