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Volume / Number: 9 / 1385

CLA 1385
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  • Wolfenbüttel Germany Herzog August Bibliothek Weissenb. 34
Script Early Caroline Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written probably in the same centre which produced Metz 134 (CLA 6.788), to judge from the script, and copied manifestly from an Anglo-Saxon exemplar. Later in Weissenburg: the Weissenburg ex-libris saec. XV–XVI stands on fol. 1. Came to Wolfenbüttel in 1690.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67524
Support Parchment
Contents Beda, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.
Script Commentary

Script, by several scribes, is a somewhat broad and stately early Caroline minuscule recalling Metz MS 134: open a is the rule; and N are frequent; characteristic is the letter g recalling one hand in the Ada Gospels (CLA 9.1366); ascenders are distinctly club-shaped; the Insular ligature tio occurs. Strong Insular flavour is discernible in script of a correction on fol. 29. The four virtues and ecclesiastical orders were entered on the blank fol. 92v by a hand saec. X or XI. A sketch of a bearded head is seen on fol. 98, top margin, and a pen-and-ink drawing on the last page.

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