Volume / Number: S / 1760

• Shrewsbury United Kingdom Shropshire Record Office without number

Written probably in a Northumbrian centre, to judge by palaeographical considerations. Found in 1960 among rubbish on the floor of an eighteenth-century house in Coalbrookdale, Shropshire, when the house was being searched prior to demolition. Now kept in the County Record Office in Shrewsbury.

Script is Anglo-Saxon minuscule: a has three forms, d has two; the final stroke of m is often inflated and goes below the line; here and there the shoulder of r descends very low; the form of z is bizarre and its oblique stroke goes well below the line; m is frequently written sideways at line-end; the te ligature occurs.

• Text: MSS containing exegetical works