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Volume / Number: 9 / 1373

CLA 1373
Shelfmarks
  • Bad Windsheim Germany Stadtbibliothek Fragm. 1
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in a German centre with Anglo-Saxon traditions, in Hessia or in the Main region. Used for binding J. Lapaeus, Warhafftige Prophezeiungen . . . Martini Lutheri, printed in 1578, and two other books printed in 1577–1578.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67511
Support Parchment
Contents Ps- Ambrosius, Acta S Sebastiani (100.4.13–5.16, 7.24–8.26).
Script Commentary

Script is an Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a type common in Hessia and in the Main region: one form of a has an elongated shaft; d normally has the uncial form, N occasionally at line-end; descenders are long, including those of r and s. Corrections in eleventh-century minuscule.

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