Hand: Glossaries, Set 1a (50r), Brussels, BR 1828–1830 (185), fols. 36–109

Name

Glossaries, Set 1a (50r)

Manuscript

Brussels, BR 1828–1830 (185), fols. 36–109

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. xi in.

Place

Unknown

Stokes, English Vernacular Script, ca 990–ca 1035, Vol. 2 (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006)

These glosses were written in a light hand with long thin strokes. Ascenders are long and usually tapering but can have slight wedges, and descenders are long and trailing. Teardrop-shaped a and æ were used, although a much more rounded a-component is sometimes found in æ. The tongue of æ is straight and rising, and the hook is low and rounded. Round c was used, as was round e with the hook and tongue like those of æ. The back of d can be short and rounded or slightly longer and straighter but close to bilinear. The tongue of f is short and concave up, and the hook is slightly longer. The top of g is long and flat, the mid-section hangs from about the centre and is quite rounded, and the tail is round and closed. The shoulders of h, m, and n are fairly rounded. Low and long s are both found, as is round s very occasionally (swicmase, his, cuscote); long s appears most often before t and once forms a Caroline ligature with this letter (hulfestran, 50r2). The back of ð is fairly straight and very steep, and the through-stroke lacks a hook. The north-east branch of x is hooked left and the south-west branch is long and tapering. Straight-limbed undotted y was used, the right branch of which is hooked left. Latin is distinguished by script; the aspect is like Style-II Anglo-Caroline but both Caroline and cc a are found in r+a ligatures.