Hand: Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24), CCCC 57
- Name
- Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
- Manuscript
- CCCC 57
- Script
- Unspecified
- Scribe
- Unspecified
- Date
- Saec. xi1
- Place
- Unknown (Abingdon prov.)
- Catalogue Number
- Scragg 35
Stokes, English Vernacular Script, ca 990–ca 1035, Vol. 2 (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006)
Glosses 1 and 2 (3r23 and 5r7) were written with a fairly flat pen in a somewhat angular script. The back of e is relatively vertical but is not horned, and the tongue extends slightly beyond the hook and is turned down. The tongue of f is long and flat and the hook straight. The mid-section of g is quite open and angular and the tail angled at about 45°. Tall, Caroline s was used, as was straight-limbed dotted y. The first and second vernacular glosses were both added above glosses in Caroline script. Gloss 3 (5v7) was written before the Caroline glosses and perhaps by a different scribe: the pen is thinner, the ascender lacks wedges, æ is flat-topped and slightly horned, and f has a long tongue and is deeply split. Gloss 9 (10v20) was again written with a thinner pen and lighter ink; both semi-Caroline and a more rotund a were used, e is round, and the shoulders of n and r are very rounded. Gloss 10 (18r24) has been partially erased; it is larger and more angular than the others, and has low s with a very angular hook, round e with a short tongue, a somewhat oblong o, and angular u and n.