Hand: Nine Glosses (13r–17v), TCC O.1.18 (1042)

Name

Nine Glosses (13r–17v)

Manuscript

TCC O.1.18 (1042)

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)

This scribe wrote a small, light, and somewhat angular script. Ascenders are long and have small barbs, and descenders are shorter than ascenders but still longer than minims, and are straight. Minims have short approach-strokes and lack feet. Teardrop-shaped a was used most often, although a flat-topped form is also found (þa, 13r). Round c was used, as was round e with a long straight rising tongue and a low round hook, and d is not found. The hook and tongue of f are short. The top of g is short and flat, and the mid-section hangs from the right, descends down and left in a very angular mid-section, hooks back horizontally to the right, then turns sharply back down and left again to end with a straight diagonal section. The shoulders of h, m, and n all branch from well below cue-height. Long s was used throughout, although the text is such that the letter only appears in the word sy; the letter is narrow and has more of a slight thickening than a wedge at cue-height. No ð is found but the text leaves no scope for this letter if the conventional spelling was followed. The body of þ is small and angular. Straight-limbed dotted y is found.