Hand: Three OE Glosses (þurhbeorht, p. 265; fram þysre worulde, ascyred l asyndrod, p., CCCC 190, pp. iii–xii, 1–294

Name

Three OE Glosses (þurhbeorht, p. 265; fram þysre worulde, ascyred l asyndrod, p. 266)

Manuscript

CCCC 190, pp. iii–xii, 1–294

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. xi

Place

Unknown (Worces or York?)

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

These glosses show long ascenders with small wedges. Descenders are about the same length as minims and are straight. Minims themselves have small approach-strokes and small feet. A fairly rotund form of a was used with a fairly vertical back. The back of d is short and angled at about 45°. Horned e was used in beohrt, but the round form is found elsewhere; the tongue is fairly long and rising, and the hook is rounded. The tongue of f is long. The shoulders of h and n are not especially angular, but that of r is, the down-stroke of which is vertical and the foot small. Long s was used throughout with a rising and fairly angular hook in þysre, p. 266, but with a more rounded one elsewhere. The scribe may have followed the conventional distinction between ð and þ but the text only allowed for two occurrences of the latter and none of the former. Straight-limbed dotted y was used, the left branch usually and the right branch once hooked left.