Volume / Number: 2 / 169

CLA	169
Shelfmarks	London United Kingdom British Library Add. MS 21213 (foll. 2–25) [palimpsest old]
Script	Anglo-Saxon Majuscule
Date	VIII ex (776 - 800)
Origin and Provenance	Written either in England or in a Continental centre with Anglo-Saxon connections. On the paper fly-leaf (fol. 1) are two probationes pennae saec. XIV: 'capitulum ecclesie Quinque ecclesie', referring presumably to Fünfkirchen (now Pécs) in Hungary. Bought by the British Museum from Edwin Tross, Paris, in 1856.
CLA Vol.	2
TM Number	TM 66273
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Lc, fragm.).
Script Commentary	Script is a compressed Anglo-Saxon majuscule verging on minuscule, of a type recalling London Egerton 1046 (foll. 17–31, CLA 2.194b): d and n have the minuscule form, R and S both the uncial and the minuscule form. An entry in Caroline minuscule saec. X occurs on fol. 19.
Notes	☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 19.
Collections	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels) Text: MSS containing Gospel text
Last modified	31 July 2017