Hand: One Gloss (wiþerat, 27r), BL Harley 110

Name

One Gloss (wiþerat, 27r)

Manuscript

BL Harley 110

Script

Unspecified

Scribe

Unspecified

Date

Saec. xi

Place

Unknown (CaCC?)

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

This gloss was written in a somewhat angular hand with a fairly wide and fairly flat pen. The one ascender and three descenders are all slightly longer than minims; the ascender has a small wedge, and one of the descenders turns slightly to the left. The body of a is round and fairly wide, and the back is angled at about 60°. The back of e is much steeper but is still not vertical; it is fairly straight and has a short lower hook, and the tongue is straight and rising and the eye small. The shoulder of r is quite angular.