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Volume / Number: S / **220

CLA **220
Shelfmarks
  • Hannover Germany Kestner-Museum MS Culemann Kat. I 71 (393)
  • Hannover Germany Kestner-Museum MS Culemann Kat. I 72 (394)
  • New Haven, Conn. USA Yale University, Beinecke Library MS 441
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably in England or in an Anglo-Saxon centre in Germany. The leaf formerly in London and later owned by Mr Mark Lansburgh of Santa Barbara was acquired by Yale University.

CLA Vol. S
TM Number TM 66318
Support Parchment
Contents Beda, Expositio in Evangelium Lucae (6.43–46).
Script Commentary

Script is graceful, expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule: i-longa here and there initially; the foot of I occasionally extends below the following letter; y is short and undotted. For other details see under London (CLA 2.220).

Notes

☛Formerly London, Private collection Merton number unknown.

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Last modified 03 May 2019