Volume / Number: S / 1679

• Cambridge United Kingdom St John’s College Aa 5.1 (fol. 67)

Written probably in Northumbria, to judge by features it has in common with our numbers 1676 and 1703 referred to above. Removed from the binding of Cambridge MS St John’s College H. 6, Bede’s Super Apocalypsim saec. XII, a manuscript from Ramsey Abbey.

Script is pointed Anglo-Saxon minuscule with numerous cursive elements, the most striking being the elongated, upward-swinging top of ꞇ: descenders unusually long; the ascenders of b, l, and h are curved, that of d is often looped (as in the Berlin fragment of Pelagius, CLA 12.1676); i, it, a, and m occur subscript and u occurs suprascript; many ligatures.

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• Text: MSS containing exegetical works