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Volume / Number: S / 1798

CLA 1798
Shelfmarks
  • Munich Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29303/2
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written in a scriptorium with Anglo-Saxon traditions, doubtless on the Continent. The medieval home of the manuscript may have been a Bavarian monastery: according to modern notes, two of the fragments were salvaged from the binding of an incunabulum which had belonged to the Franciscan convent at Amberg, the other two from a book which came from the Augustinian monastery of Beyharting near Rosenheim.

CLA Vol. S
TM Number TM 67924
Support Parchment
Contents Lectionarium (fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script, by a good scribe, is somewhat diluted Anglo-Saxon minuscule with longish descenders, on the whole inclined to the left: open a and are used throughout; less than justice is done to the g. Corrections in contemporary Anglo-Saxon minuscule and in Caroline minuscule saec. IX and X.

Notes

☛Formerly Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29163 c. ☛Bischoff, Katalog 2 no. 3403.

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