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Volume / Number: 9 / 1425

CLA 1425
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  • Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek M. P. Th. F. 78
Script Anglo-Saxon Majuscule and Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent, perhaps in the Würzburg region, and in the same scriptorium which produced M. p. th. f. 13 (CLA 9.1404). Was number 'XIIII', later '61', in the Würzburg Cathedral Library.

CLA Vol. 9
TM Number TM 67565
Support Parchment
Contents Passiones Apostolorum.
Script Commentary

Script of the main part is an awkward and debased Anglo-Saxon majuscule recalling one of the hands of M. p. th. f. 13 (CLA 9.1404): d is mostly minuscule, n regularly so; r has both majuscule and minuscule forms; s is mostly majuscule; uncial G occurs once; z resembles y; short horizontals curve up. Anglo-Saxon minuscule is seen on foll. 34–35v: a is frequent; resembles a cork-screw; the elongated fancy majuscules of the opening lines of fol. 35v are to be compared with the title of M. p. th. q. 18 (CLA 9.1432).

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