Volume / Number: S2 / 1880

• Münster Germany Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Fragmentensammlung IV, 8

Written in Northumbria. Formerly used as a binding. A note in sixteenth-century writing on fols. 1v–2r connects the fragment with Werden (‘Ego frater Iobannes Assindie dictus prior [1517–42] in Werden profiteor manu propria quod hunc librum qui dicitur Smagaddus super regulam sanctissimi patris nostri Benedicti accepi accommodatu a domino venerando Gerbardo abbate [1507–47] sanctissimi Martini in colonia…’).

Script is a handsome Anglo-Saxon majuscule: normally d has the minuscule form, N, R, and S the uncial; i-longa is used occasionally; the top stroke of g and T and the ascender of uncial D have a triangular finial at the left.