Hand: Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24), CCCC 57

Name
Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
Manuscript
CCCC 57
Script
Unspecified
Scribe
Unspecified
Date
Saec. xi1
Place
Unknown (Abingdon prov.)
Catalogue Number
Scragg 35

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

Glosses 1 and 2 (3r23 and 5r7) were written with a fairly flat pen in a somewhat angular script. The back of e is relatively vertical but is not horned, and the tongue extends slightly beyond the hook and is turned down. The tongue of f is long and flat and the hook straight. The mid-section of g is quite open and angular and the tail angled at about 45°. Tall, Caroline s was used, as was straight-limbed dotted y. The first and second vernacular glosses were both added above glosses in Caroline script. Gloss 3 (5v7) was written before the Caroline glosses and perhaps by a different scribe: the pen is thinner, the ascender lacks wedges, æ is flat-topped and slightly horned, and f has a long tongue and is deeply split. Gloss 9 (10v20) was again written with a thinner pen and lighter ink; both semi-Caroline and a more rotund a were used, e is round, and the shoulders of n and r are very rounded. Gloss 10 (18r24) has been partially erased; it is larger and more angular than the others, and has low s with a very angular hook, round e with a short tongue, a somewhat oblong o, and angular u and n.

e

e. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)

e. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)

e. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
f, Insular

f, Insular. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
g, Insular

g, Insular. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)

g, Insular. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
n

n. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)

n. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
o

o. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
s, Caroline

s, Caroline. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
s, Long

s, Long. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
thorn

thorn. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
u

u. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)
y, Straight

y, Straight. Five Glosses (3r23, 5r7, 5v7, 10v20, 18r24)