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Volume / Number: S / 1732

CLA 1732
Shelfmarks
  • Marburg Germany Hessisches Staatsarchiv Hr. 2, 6
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written presumably at Fulda. Used in a book of accounts at the monastery of Frauensee, according to a note on the fragment.

CLA Vol. S
TM Number TM 67872
Support Parchment
Contents Ps- Clemens Romanus, Recognitiones (1.47–50, 63–65).
Script Commentary

Script is expert, graceful Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a definite type with theta-shaped e, markedly long descenders, and resembling an elongated numeral 3: the uncial form of is the rule; i-longa occurs initially; ascenders tend towards the club shape. To be compared with the fragments of an anonymous commentary on Matthew in Fulda and formerly also in Dresden (CLA 8.1181, and 12.**1181) and other manuscripts enumerated under 12.1698.

Notes

☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 2687.

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