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Volume / Number: 9 / 1335

CLA 1335
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  • Munich Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29270/9
Script Anglo-Saxon Majuscule
Date VIII in (701 - 725)
Origin and Provenance

Written in England and most likely in a Northumbrian centre, to judge by the script; it has some points of resemblance to Cambridge Kk. I. 24 (CLA 2.138). The fragment served as jacket or cover for a book.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67478
Support Parchment
Contents Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Vulgata, Io 12.25–7, 29–33, 35–6, 39–42).
Script Commentary

Script is a stately, expert Anglo-Saxon majuscule, with and d, N and n, R and r, S and y, the uncial forms predominating.

Notes

☛Formerly Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29155 d.

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