Volume / Number: S / 1806

• Marburg Germany Hessisches Staatsarchiv Fragm. 319 Parrei Spangenberg Hr. Nr. 1

Written in Southwest England. The palaeography of the fragment and the fact that it was found in a small parochial archive not too far from Fulda make it highly probable that the medieval history of the manuscript was connected with Fulda. It may actually have been brought to Germany by St Boniface or by his English pupils or companions.

Script is rapid cursive Anglo-Saxon minuscule of the type seen in the marginalia of the Codex Fuldensis (CLA 8.1196 of the New Testament)), doubtless connected with St Boniface and his circle (cf. also CLA 2.237; 11.1618): a and d have two forms; g resembles a longish flat-topped Arabic 3; the bow of q is open, and one form begins with a fore-stroke; y resembles a sloping Insular ꞅ; ligatures are numerous and include em, en, er (all with the lower bow of e reversed), fi, ti, us. The word ‘talaria’ is followed by the Anglo-Saxon gloss ‘fether haman’ with ‘sax[onice]’ above the line (see fol. 1, l. 1).