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Volume / Number: 11 / **1339

CLA **1339
Shelfmarks
  • Munich Germany Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29270/5
  • New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library Wm. Glazier Collection G. 26
  • Stuttgart Germany Hauptstaatsarchiv Cod. Fragm. 64
  • Stuttgart Germany Hauptstaatsarchiv Incun. 9600 (fragm. & offsets)
  • Vienna Austria Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Lat. Ser. nov. 3201
  • Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek Incun. I.t.f. 516
  • Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek M. P. Th. F. 190
  • Würzburg Germany Universitätsbibliothek Incun. I.t.f. 952
Script Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance

Written in an Anglo-Saxon centre in Germany, probably in the Main region. The dismembered volume was used for book-bindings. One folio, the last leaf of quire 5, was acquired by the Vienna Library. The Glazier leaf formerly belonged to Max Kammerer of Wartenberg near Munich and was purchased by William S. Glazier of New York in 1954.
CLA Vol. 11
TM Number TM 67482
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Contents Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Mt, Mc, Lc, Io, fragm.).
Script Commentary

Script is an expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a distinct type, with characteristically long descenders: a has two forms; i-longa is used initially; noteworthy is the ei ligature resembling a combined o and tall S; c and u occur with subscript i.
Notes

☛Formerly Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek CLM 29159/5.
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