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• Cambridge United Kingdom Gonville and Caius College 820 (k)

Written at Chelles near Paris. The MS of which this leaf formed a part belongs to a group connected with North-East France (see CLA 2.105). In the upper margin of the recto of our leaf is the entry CCLXXXIII (saec. XII–XIII)—probably an early shelf-mark of MS Gonville and Caius 153 (203), containing a metrical version of Ælred of Rievaulx's Life of Edward the Confessor, saec. XII–XIII.

Script is a rather ornate, carefully made uncial of a distinct type: the typical letter is N with the second upright leaning to the left; descenders are made by a special hair-line; the top of b is stem-like; X is high-waisted; Y is dotted.

☛CLA first-edition origin (Written in France) changed to follow second edition. ☛Gamber, CLLA 217.

• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Script: MSS written by female scribes
• CLA information changed