Volume / Number: 5 / 559

• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 4871 (foll. 161–168)

Origin probably Northumbria. Bound with a volume which came from the Abbey of Moissac; the following entry in an eleventh century hand occurs on fol. 160v, originally blank: ‘Hi sunt libri conditi in teca librorum cenobii Moysiacensis…’ Belonged to J. A de Thou, whose name is seen on foll. 112, 142. There is little reason to suppose that our part came from Moissac. Was No. 687 in the Colbert collection and No. 3788.3 in the Royal collection (see fol. 1).

Script is an expert Anglo-Saxon minuscule, the letters having a compressed appearance: a is rather broad and ꝺ is regularly uncial; initial uncial A at the beginning of sections has a thorn-shaped bow which plunges boldly below the line—a Northumbrian characteristic; e is often theta-shaped; s-like Ᵹ passim; q is usually open at the top and has an angular bow. Descenders are pointed and go well below the line; some are sinuous (cf. CLA 2.152).

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