Volume / Number: S / 1803

• Oberkaufungen Germany Archiv Des Ritterschaftlichen Stifts Kaufungen without number

Written by an expert Anglo-Saxon scribe, presumably in a South English centre such as Nutscelle. The fragments were used for binding a copy book of the obligations of the Kaufungen Stift.

Script is rapid, expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule: a is regularly open at the top; ꝺ is the rule; the upper part of f often descends to the tongue, the whole resembling capital R; Ᵹ resembles a flat-topped Arabic 3; l frequently extends below the following vowel; the bow of q is open at the top; the first stroke of u is often pendant; ligatures with e and t (including tem, ter, tri) are frequent; ę and n with subscript i occur. In some lines the final letter or letters are placed above the preceding. Contemporary corrections in the same script. Letters a through h in ca. tenth-century charter script in the margin of fol. 1.

☛Formerly Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv Kaufunger Fragmente. ☛W. A. Eckhardt, ‘Das Kaufunger Fragment der Bonifatius-Grammatik’, Scriptorium 23 (1969) 280–297.