Hand: Three Glosses (of, ongrynt oððe ongratað, swing; 53v), BL Cotton Domitian i, fols. 2–55

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

These three glosses were written in a very small and somewhat angular hand. The last, swing, was written with a comparatively thick pen, whereas the first two, of and ongrynt oððe ongratað, were written with a much thinner pen and are much harder to read for it. The letter-forms are the same, however, and they may well all have been written by one scribe Minims have small wedges and small or no feet, and descenders are straight. A relatively flat-topped a was used, although the body is still quite rounded. Round e is found. The one occurrence of f is very feint indeed but is certainly Insular. The top of g is flat and fairly narrow, the mid-section is very small and hangs from the centre but then turns horizontally to the right right, and the tail curves back around in a long, narrow, closed loop. The shoulders of n and r are fairly angular, and the first n of ongratað was written with almost no pen-lift. The backs of ð are long and thin, starting at about 30–40° but curving up towards the tip. and the through-strokes are thin, fairly high, and straight.