Volume / Number: 2 / 157

CLA	157
Shelfmarks	Hereford United Kingdom Cathedral Library P.I.2
Script	Insular Majuscule
Date	VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance	Written in an English scriptorium under Celtic influence, probably in a centre near the Welsh border. Two eleventh-century records in Anglo-Saxon vernacular added on foll. 134 and 135 refer to places in Herefordshire and two convents at Hereford. A Hereford library-mark saec. XV occurs on the last page.
CLA Vol.	2
TM Number	TM 66261
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Mt, Mc, Lc, Io).
Name	Hereford Gospels.
Script Commentary	Script is a late Insular majuscule of a somewhat curious type unlike the normal English or Irish; uncial D and R occur regularly, uncial S occasionally next to minuscule s; a has a flat top; the first branch of y bends to the right. Two Anglo-Saxon documents were entered in the blank spaces in the last two folios saec. XI. Lection crosses have been added passim, in the margin.
Notes	☛R. Gameson, Scriptorium 56 (2002) p. 48–75. ☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 15.
Collections	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels) Text: MSS containing Gospel text
Last modified	31 July 2017