Volume / Number: 9 / 1370

• London United Kingdom British Library Harley 5915 (fol. 10)
• Weinheim Germany Private collection Fischer without number

Written presumably in Northumbria, perhaps in the centre in which the main scribe of the St Petersburg Bede was trained. Later history unknown, but it seems probable that this very manuscript in its Continental home became the archetype of the entire ‘trans-alpine’ branch of the Iustinus tradition. Was in the possession of Fridegar Mone, and probably already of his father Fr Jos. Mone (†1871). Said to have belonged to some Dr Amt at Quedlinburg after the dissolution of the Fischer collection.

Script is an easy, expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule closely resembling the last hand of the St Petersburg Bede: a has two forms; c often rises above the other letters and touches the upper left end of open a and u; d has regularly the uncial form. Marginal notes in smaller script are by the same hand.

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