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Volume / Number: 10 / 1515

CLA 1515
Shelfmarks
  • Vienna Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Lat. Ser. nov. 3644
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII (701 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in England, and presumably in the North, or possibly in an Anglo-Saxon foundation on the Continent. Later history unknown.

CLA Vol. 10
TM Number TM 67702
Support Parchment
Contents Eusebius-Rufinus, Historia Ecclesiastica (3.37–39).
Script Commentary

Script is mainly vigorous Anglo-Saxon minuscule similar to the script of Paris Lat. 10399 (fol. 50) (CLA 5.596): open a is mostly majuscule but occasionally it has a form in which the second bow lacks its upper stroke; the lower part of swings to the right; r is short; both s and are used; aꞇ often have a common top stroke. The last few lines of each page are in pointed, almost cursive minuscule with open a.

Last modified 23 June 2017