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Volume / Number: S2 / 1874

CLA 1874
Shelfmarks
  • Lucerne Switzerland Staatsarchiv Fragm. PA 1034/21007
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.

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