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Volume / Number: S / 1687

CLA 1687
Shelfmarks
  • Düsseldorf Germany Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Z 11/01
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in England and most likely in Northumbria to judge by the script. The fragments come from the monastery of Werden.

CLA Vol. S
TM Number TM 67854
Support Parchment
Contents Orosius, Historia Adversus Paganos (7.41.10, 42.13, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is bold Anglo-Saxon minuscule: a is mostly open, occasionally it is also closed by an added third stroke; d has two forms; ligatures are not infrequent, e.g. nt with pendant t, sti, ti, tio. Small contemporary glosses. Corrections in Caroline minuscule saec. X. Here and there post-medieval scribbles and transcriptions.

Notes

☛Removed from PrTh I 130. ☛Formerly Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Hs. Z 4/2. ☛Formerly Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek M 041. ☛Formerly Düsseldorf, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Pr. th. I.130.

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