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Volume / Number: 9 / 1369

CLA 1369
Shelfmarks
  • Weimar Germany Landesbibliothek Fol. 414 a
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Origin uncertain, manifestly a good scriptorium and probably in England. The fragment was used for binding an edition of Gellius; it belonged later to the German philologist, A. W. Fröhner, who lived in Paris, and with whose legacy it came to the Weimar library in 1927.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67508
Support Parchment
Contents Isidorus, De Natura Rerum (1.2).
Script Commentary

Script is a well-formed Anglo-Saxon minuscule retaining some majuscule elements: here and there a, d, and r have the majuscule form; the st ligature occurs.

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