Volume / Number: 8 / 1226

CLA	1226
Shelfmarks	Bad-Hersfeld Germany Stadtarchiv Lat. 17 Bad-Hersfeld Germany Stadtarchiv Lat. 20
Script	Anglo-Saxon Majuscule
Date	VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance	Written probably in Northumbria, but an Anglo-Saxon centre in Germany is not to be excluded. Belonged apparently to the Hersfeld abbey library; both fragments were used in 1589 for binding records of the Hersfeld hospital.
CLA Vol.	8
TM Number	TM 67360
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Vetus (Vulgata, 2 Par 13.6–21, 15.1–16.14, 17.17–18.13).
Script Commentary	Script is a compressed Anglo-Saxon majuscule by a well-trained scribe: ꝺ and d, S and ꞅ, n regularly minuscule, r mostly; noteworthy are the round form of a, which predominates, g occasionally resembling a flat-topped, elongated numeral 3, open q at the beginning of words, and y with both branches curving to the right; numerous ligatures.
Collection	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
Last modified	13 July 2017