Hand: OE Hand 2 (glosses on 27v–37v and ?118–68; text on 46v–56v and 96r–107v), BL Cotton Tiberius A.iii, fols. 2–173

Name: OE Hand 2 (glosses on 27v–37v and ?118–68; text on 46v–56v and 96r–107v)
Manuscript: BL Cotton Tiberius A.iii, fols. 2–173
Script: Unspecified
Scribe: Unspecified
Date: Saec. xi1
Place: CaCC

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

This hand is quite rough and the size, spacing, and forms show much variety. Ascenders are usually about the length of minims and can have very heavy wedges. Descenders are similar but can be short and are tapering or turned left at the tip. Minims have wedges and feet except when following o in which case they have long round approach-strokes. A rounded but essentially teardrop-shaped a is found, and the same form was used for æ. Caroline a is sometimes found with a very long head in the gloss on the first line of a page (e.g. twice on 88v1). The tongue of æ is straight and rising and the hook rounded and low. Round c was used throughout. The back of d is fairly short, angled at about 45°, and usually fairly straight but sometimes turned up or right at the tip. Round and horned e are both found, the back of the latter being quite straight, and the tongue of both forms is straight and rising. The tongue of f can be either long or short, and either concave up or straight. The top of g is flat, the mid-section can be small and can be angular but is usually more rounded, and the tail is round and three-quarters or entirely closed. The shoulders of h, m, n, and r all vary in angularity. Only tall s was used, and tall s+t ligatures are found. The usual distinction between þ and ð was followed throughout. The back of ð is similar to d with the turned-up tip: the back is long and steep, and the cross-stroke is hooked down on the right but does not pass much to the left of the back. Straight-limbed y was used, usually but not always dotted, and the right branch is hooked left. The top of 7 is long and fairly flat. Latin is consistently distinguished by script.