Volume / Number: 9 / 1398
| CLA | 1398 |
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| Script | Irish Majuscule verging on Minuscule |
| Date | VIII² (751 - 800) |
| Origin and Provenance |
Written presumably in Ireland. Used for binding a fifteenth-century manuscript which belonged to the monastery of St Stephan at Würzburg: the entry ‘Iste liber pertinet ad monasterium sancti Stephani in Herbipoli' (saec. XV) stands on fol. 1 of the main manuscript. |
| CLA Vol. | 9 |
| TM Number | TM 67537 |
| Support | Parchment |
| Contents | Beda, De Ratione Temporum (praefatio, capitula). |
| Script Commentary |
Script is angular, compressed Irish majuscule verging on minuscule or minuscule with many majuscule adhesions, recalling to some extent the script of Karlsruhe Fragm. Aug. 20 (CLA 8.1118): a has two forms; d and ꞅ are mostly minuscule, n regularly so, R regularly majuscule; in the ligatures gi, ri, ti, xi the i resembles a shallow s; other ligatures are fi, tia, tio. Contemporary glosses in small Irish minuscule. |
| Notes |
☛Formerly Würzburg, Universität M. Ch. F. 206. |
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| Last modified | 29 June 2017 |