Volume / Number: S2 / 1874
CLA | 1874 |
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Shelfmarks |
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Script | Anglo-Saxon Majuscule |
Date | VIII² (751 - 800) |
Origin and Provenance |
Written in Northumbria. Formerly used as the cover of a volume in the archive of the Cistercian abbey of St Urban (canton of Lucerne); the volume itself is also in the Staatsarchiv, Lucerne (shelf mark: COD · KU 107b). |
CLA Vol. | S2 |
TM Number | TM 118666 |
Support | Parchment |
Contents | Isidorus, Sententiae (3.59–60). |
Script Commentary |
Script is an elegant compressed Anglo-Saxon majuscule verging on minuscule and resembling the script of CLA 2.194b; a has the minuscule form; d, n, and r are used regularly, R occasionally; majuscule S is almost as frequent as the minuscule form; e is usually theta-shaped; g is s-like before r; the oblique of z plunges below the line; many upright strokes terminate in finials. Text often squeezed at line-ends as if the scribe were making a line-by-line copy of bis exemplar. Some scribal or contemporary corrections. |
Last modified | 23 June 2017 |