Volume / Number: 2 / 259

CLA	259
Shelfmarks	Oxford United Kingdom Bodleian Library MS. Lat. Bibl. c. 8 (P) Salisbury United Kingdom Cathedral Library 117 (foll. 163–164) Tokyo Japan Private Collection Takamiya Without number
Script	Anglo-Saxon Minuscule
Date	VIII–IX (780 - 820)
Origin and Provenance	Written in a Mercian or South English centre. All the leaves doubtless came from Salisbury, where they were used as fly-leaves: the top of the recto of one of the Cheltenham leaves has the a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century ex libris. The Oxford leaf formerly formed fol. 105 of MS Bodl. 516, which also came from Salisbury.
CLA Vol.	2
TM Number	TM 66345
Support	Parchment
Contents	Testamentum Vetus, Pentateuchus (Nm, Dt, fragm.).
Script Commentary	Script is a pointed Anglo-Saxon minuscule by at least two scribes: descenders strike boldly below the line; l regularly descends below the line even in mid-word; cross-stroke of t often extends unattached from the right of the stem; small horizontal strokes slope upwards to the right. The MS has several features in common with Oxford Bodl. Hatton 93 (CLA 2.241).
Notes	☛Formerly Cheltenham, Private collection Phillipps 36183. ☛Formerly Geneva, Fondation Bodmer without number.
Collection	Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
Last modified	30 April 2019