Volume / Number: 11 / 1668

• Williamstown, Mass. USA Williams College MS 7

Written in the abbey of St Martin at Tours, probably during the abbacy of Alcuin (796–804). Formerly in the possession of the English collector, E. C. Hawtrey.

Script, by more than one hand, is Caroline minuscule of the pure Tours type, with Tours half-uncial seen in some opening lines: a has two forms; ꝺ and N occur; y is long and dotted; z occasionally has a dot on either side, a Tours feature (cf. CLA 6, p. xxvii ff.); ligatures include NT even in mid-line and or in mid-word. A note in chancery script saec. XIV–XV on p. 230 refers to the neighbouring abbey in Cormery.

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