Volume / Number: 2 / 258
CLA | 258 |
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Script | Anglo-Saxon Majuscule |
Date | VIII¹ (701 - 750) |
Origin and Provenance |
Written in England, probably in Northumbria. Used as fly-leaves to a manuscript of Seneca, Tragoediae X in fourteenth-century Italian Gothic. On deposit in the Bodleian Library. |
CLA Vol. | 2 |
TM Number | TM 66344 |
Support | Parchment |
Contents | Testamentum Novum, Evangelia (Lc 8.13–50). |
Script Commentary |
Script is a well-formed, bold Anglo-Saxon majuscule. Uncial Ꝺ, N, R, S occur: R invariably uncial, Ꝺ now uncial, now minuscule, N, S only occasionally minuscule; uncial A also occurs, but only at line-ends. |
Notes |
☛CLA first-edition date (VIII) changed to follow second edition. ☛McGurk, Gospel books no. 36. |
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Last modified | 20 March 2018 |