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Volume / Number: S / 1797

CLA 1797
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Script Irish Majuscule
Date VIII (701 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written doubtless in Ireland. Belonged to the monastery of St Emmeram at Ratisbon; the only surviving fragment was found in the binding of CLM 14747, a tenth-century manuscript of collected glosses.

CLA Vol. S
TM Number TM 67923
Support Parchment
Contents Sacramentarium Celticum: Officium Mortuorum.
Script Commentary

Script is bold, somewhat irregular Irish majuscule with d and R used more frequently than and r, n regularly, and both S and ; y is typically Insular with both branches curving to the right. The recurrent phrase ‘per dominum nostrum…’, etc., is in minuscule.

Notes

☛Formerly Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29163 a.

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