Volume / Number: 9 / 1378

• Wolfenbüttel Germany Herzog August Bibliothek Aug. Octavo 80.6

Written in a Frankish centre, perhaps in the very scriptorium in which the restoration leaf (fol. 33) in the Ashburnham Pentateuch (CLA 5.693a) was written; though this restoration script has marked echoes of the beautiful Tours minuscule and was ascribed to Tours by E. K. Rand, the ascription is questionable. Later in the monastery of St Emmeram at Regensburg, where it was copied in 1483 by the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel.

Script is graceful Caroline minuscule showing the closest resemblance to the hand of the restored folio 33 in the Ashburnham Pentateuch (Paris, N. A. Lat. 2334; CLA 5.693a): the well-shaped minuscule g and the occasional half-uncial form in ligature have a distinctly Turonian look; the uncial form of n is not infrequent; ‘finit’ on fol. 65 v recalls half-uncial. Some Old High German glosses scratched in with a stylus.

☛B. Bischoff, Die südostdeutschen Schreibschulen und Bibliotheken in der Karolingerzeit, Teil II, Die vorwiegend österrichischen Diözesen, Wiesbaden 1980, S. 103–4.

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