Volume / Number: 2 / 191

• London United Kingdom British Library Cotton MS Tiberius C. II

Written in England, probably in the South, as script and ornamentation suggest. The textual connexion with Durham may be due to its Northumbrian exemplar. On fol. 1 is the autograph entry ‘Ro: Cotton Bruceus’. The MS suffered slightly in the fire of 1731.

Script is an expert pointed Anglo-Saxon minuscule of a distinct type: g has a characteristic bulging middle; the last stroke of final m descends below the line in a curve; descenders go well below the line. A rather artificial majuscule is used at the beginning of books. The Greek letter Π occurs among the large letters after an initial. Ninth-century Anglo-Saxon glosses are added. Stylus writing passim. Neumes occur on foll. 18, 26, 29.

☛Gneuss no. 377.

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