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• Paris France Bibliothèque Nationale de France Lat. 9538

Written in England or, more probably, in an Anglo-Saxon centre on the Continent and in the same scriptorium which produced MS Lat. 9526 (CLA 5.584), presumably Echternach: fol. 1 bears the title in the well-known fifteenth-century librarian's hand. First catalogued at the Bibliothèque Nationale as Suppl. Lat. 118 d.

Script is an expert, fluent Anglo-Saxon minuscule similar to that of MS Lat. 9526 (CLA 5.584): a has various forms—the narrow closed a, the capital A (mostly at the beginning of a word, but not confined to it), and the open a, which predominates; ꝺ and d are used; frequent use of e with the lower bow reversed, resembling Arabic 8; s-like g; i-longa frequently at the beginning of words; m at line-ends is sometimes formed by two or three bows standing sideways; p has an open bow often ending in a tiny stroke to the right; q resembles Arabic 9; the top of t is often sinuous and extends over the next letter; numerous ligatures, with some letters subscript: a, i, o (in 'tio'), and t.

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