Hand: Six Glosses (12r, 15r, 17r), TCC O.1.18 (1042)

Name

Six Glosses (12r, 15r, 17r)

Manuscript

TCC O.1.18 (1042)

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. xi

Place

Unknown

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

This hand is small, light, and relatively narrow. Ascenders are long and straight, and descenders are short. Minims have approach-strokes and occasionally have small feet. Single-compartment and an approximately Caroline a are both found: the latter has a long back which is angled at about 45° and which extends beyond the body but does not turn over at the top, thereby looking somewhere between Caroline and uncial. A more flat-topped a was used for æ, the tongue of which is horizontal and the hook angular. A somewhat angular c was used without a horn, but horned e is found with a straight rising tongue and a squinting eye. The descender of r is long and leans forward somewhat, but the hook remains high like the Caroline form. Only tall s is found, the hook of which is narrow, the down-stroke extends slightly below the base-line, and the letter forms a ligature with t. The scribe did not use ð at all, although he only had one opportunity for so doing (belimpþ, 17r). The bodies of þ and wynn are both quite triangular. Straight-limbed dotted y was used.