Hand: One Gloss (clænnisse, 15r), BL Royal 5.F.iii

Name

One Gloss (clænnisse, 15r)

Manuscript

BL Royal 5.F.iii

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. xi

Place

Worcester

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

This gloss was written in a thin, somewhat spindly hand. The ascender is longer than minims and has a small wedge. Descenders are straight and about the length of minims. The a-component of æ is somewhat triangular, the back angled at about 80°, the tongue is high and rising, and the eye is squinting. Round c and e are found, and the tongue and eye of the latter are like those of æ. Low s is found, the descenders of which have wedges. The shoulders of n are somewhat angular, and the minims are straight. The top of i has a small approach-stroke and small horizontal foot.