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CLA 218
Shelfmarks
  • London United Kingdom British Library Sloane MS 1044 (fol. 3)
Script Insular Majuscule
Date VIII² (751 - 800)
Origin and Provenance

Written in all probability in Ireland. Now mounted in a scrap-book of cuttings and fragments collected by the antiquary John Bagford (1650–1716).

CLA Vol. 2
TM Number TM 66316
Support Parchment
Contents Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi (3.31–32).
Script Commentary

Script is a somewhat angular, not very expert majuscule with d, n, normally minuscule, R regularly majuscule; the letters have a general inclination to the left, and the whole impression is Irish rather than Anglo-Saxon.

Notes

☛Text identified by G. Philippart, Anal. Boll. 88 (1970), p. 22.

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