Volume / Number: 2 / 135
| CLA | 135 |
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| Shelfmarks |
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| Script | Anglo-Saxon Minuscule |
| Date | VIII–IX (780 - 820) |
| Origin and Provenance |
Written probably on the Continent, in a Germanic centre with South English connections. Was cut up and used to strengthen a binding made in Germany saec. XVI or XVII, to judge by the characteristic pattern of X surmounted by X, and the curious green wash, two features encountered in numerous German bindings of that period. The cover bears the book-plate of E. Kroencke. Presented to the University Library by Miss C. M. Ridding, 26 January, 1904. |
| CLA Vol. | 2 |
| TM Number | TM 66238 |
| Support | Parchment |
| Contents | Aldhelmus, De Laude Virginitatis (36–7, 40). |
| Script Commentary |
Script is a striking and expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a distinct type, with ꝺ regularly uncial, n mostly minuscule, the uncial form being remarkable for its broad curving second stroke which bends upward above the base line; r and ꞅ are minuscule and go well below the line; e is theta-shaped with the hasta very low; g is like an elongated numeral 3; the oblique stroke of z plunges boldly below the line. |
| Notes |
☛R. Rushworth, 'A Cambridge fragment of Aldhelm' Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 11 (1999) 449–62. |
| Last modified | 30 April 2019 |