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• London United Kingdom British Library Royal MS 4.A.XIV (foll. 107–108)

Written doubtless in South England, to judge by the script, and presumably at Winchester. The MS of Ps- Hieronymus in Psalmos in Anglo-Saxon minuscule saec. X ex., in which the bifolium serves as fly-leaves, is palaeographically related to Royal 2. B. v, which is connected with Winchester. The whole MS belonged to John Theyer (see CLA 2.215).

Script is an expert, rather fluent Anglo-Saxon minuscule; occasionally g has the form of an elongated, flat-topped 3; the cross-stroke of t often extends over the neighbouring letters; y has both branches curving to the right; i-longa is frequent; descenders mostly go well below the line; there are numerous ligatures (showing a certain influence of Irish cursive writing): ca, co, ma, na, nt, ua, etc. The last three letters in 'finit' on fol. 107v are written in a curious monogram.

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