Hand: Eighteen Glosses (28v, 30v, 31r, 32v, 101r–102r, 127v), BnF nouv.acq.latin 586, fols. 16–131
- Name
- Eighteen Glosses (28v, 30v, 31r, 32v, 101r–102r, 127v)
- Manuscript
- BnF nouv.acq.latin 586, fols. 16–131
- Script
- Unspecified
- Scribe
- Unspecified
- Date
- Saec. xi1
- Place
- Unknown
Stokes, English Vernacular Script, ca 990–ca 1035, Vol. 2 (PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006)
These glosses were written in a fairly regular but very small hand. Ascenders are usually longer than minims and have wedges. Descenders can also be long and are straight, although short descenders are found. Minims have approach-strokes and can have small feet but are usually straight. Teardrop-shaped a is found most often, although a relatively wide and essentially round form was also used. Much the same range is also found in æ, and the top of the a-component can be open. The tongue of æ is straight and rising and the hook round and low. Round c was used throughout, and the back of d is fairly straight, angled at no more than about 40°, and can be medium-length or quite short. Round and horned e are both found, the tongue and hook of which are usually like those of æ, but a more horizontal tongue is also found, and this form can be vertical-tipped. The hook of f branches from close to the base-line and is shorter than the tongue which is flat. The top of g is flat, the mid-section angular and hanging from the right, and the tail fairly straight and angled down and left. An essentially tall s was used which descends slightly below the base-line and with a hook which reaches forward over the following letter but does not really turn down at the tip. The scribe preferred þ but ð is found, the back of which is much the same as and no longer than that of d, and the through-stroke short, concave-up, and without a hook. Straight-limbed dotted y was used, the right branch of which can be hooked left.