Volume / Number: 2 / 196b

• London United Kingdom British Library Egerton MS 2831 (foll. 110–143)

Written at Tours, apparently contemporaneously with the first part, which it continues. For the later history of the whole MS, see preceding item.

Script is a pointed Insular minuscule with various cursive elements; it resembles certain hands in Vatic. Pal. Lat. 235 (CLA 1.87) and is probably the work of a Northumbrian scribe schooled in the Irish tradition: g often resembles an elongated s; the cross-stroke of T sweeps upward above the following letters; z resembles a recumbent y and is mostly below the line; uncial A, and uncial M are found at the beginning of words; ligatures are frequent: in en and er the e sometimes has the reversed lower bow (see CLA 2.123); in em and en at line-ends m and n hang sideways below the line (see CLA 2.147). Contemporary marginalia by the Merovingian scribe of the first part.

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