Volume / Number: 11 / 1662

• New York, N. Y. USA Pierpont Morgan Library M. 826

Written apparently in England. Its medieval history is unknown. It was later used in the binding of an incunabulum. Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps in whose library at Middlehill, Worcestershire, and later at Cheltenham it bore the number 36,275. Acquired by A. Chester Beatty in 1924 and purchased by the Morgan Library from a New York dealer in 1948.

Script is a bold minuscule by an expert hand: noteworthy are the long descenders, especially of s; ꝺ is normally uncial; i-longa occurs at the beginning of words; the ti ligature resembles q with i above; the ae ligature resembles oe; the nt ligature occurs at line-end with the t rising above and also descending below the line; here and there the st ligature occurs; and the tis ligature at line-end.