Volume / Number: S / 1676

• Berlin Germany Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz Grimm-Nachlass Konvolut 139.1

Written doubtless in Northumbria. The medieval home of the manuscript was probably an Anglo-Saxon foundation in Germany. The fragment was used as a book-jacket. Belonged to the Grimm brothers.

Script is expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a compressed type with descenders unusually long: the shoulder of r descends very low and is easily mistaken for the short stroke of another letter; cursive features are seen in the ligature tr and in the looped ascender of d; other ligatures include m, n, tio, and even li in the form of an obtuse angle.

• Text: MSS containing exegetical works