Hand: Four Glosses (feornesta, 11r; segelgyrdum, 13v; burgrunan, 14v; hamme, 31r), BL Cotton Claudius A.i, fols. 5–36

Name

Four Glosses (feornesta, 11r; segelgyrdum, 13v; burgrunan, 14v; hamme, 31r)

Manuscript

BL Cotton Claudius A.i, fols. 5–36

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. x/xi

Place

Unknown (CaCC?)

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

These glosses show long split ascenders and short straight descenders. Minims have approach-strokes and usually lack feet. Flat-topped a was used on 31r but teardrop-shaped a is found elsewhere. The back of d is short, fairly straight, and angled at about 50–60°. Round e is found with a straight rising tongue and low hook, except for 31r where the letter is horned, the tongue horizontal and at cue-height, and the hook extends above cue-height. The shoulders of h, m, and n are somewhat rounded. Caroline f and g were used throughout, as was tall s, and Caroline r was used on 11r but Insular r elsewhere. Bilinear dotted round y was used on 13v.