Hand: Second Glossator (36r–39r, 68rv), CCCC 214

Name
Second Glossator (36r–39r, 68rv)
Manuscript
CCCC 214
Script
Unspecified
Scribe
Unspecified
Date
Saec. xi1
Place
Unknown (CaA?)

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

This hand is angular, quite heavy, and has a good deal of shading, but the formation of letters is irregular and the appearance messy. A form of Caroline a is normal with a back angled at about 45° and reaching above cue-height before turning to the horizontal, although this head can also be absent and the resultant letter more or less single-compartment. In one case, the head of a is very short, horizontal, and very high, turning into a vertical back which was written almost like an ascender. The back of the a-component of æ is angled, the left side of the body angled to the right, the tongue is horizontal, and the hook extends slightly above cue-height. Round c appears throughout, the hook short, and d has a long back angled at about 60°; Caroline d also appears in a vernacular context. Round e was used throughout with a fairly high hook and a horizontal tongue; a tall open e is also found in ligature with low s. The tongue of f is high, turns up at the right, and passes slightly left of the vertical which itself drops slightly below the base-line; the hook is high and angular, and the letter is therefore essentially Caroline. The top stroke of g is ~-shaped, and the mid-section descends at about 45° and turns sharply right before usually curving back in a nearly-closed loop; alternatively, the tail can finish with a concave-down stroke which rises sharply from the bottom and then turns towards the horizontal. Caroline h was used throughout. The shoulders of m, n, and r are all relatively angular, although Caroline r often appears and can be deeply split. Tall, essentially Caroline s was also used most often, although a low form appears once; the shoulder of tall s is thick and not unlike that of Style-IV Anglo-Caroline. The top of t is ~-shaped. The scribe used þ exclusively in preference to ð; the body of þ is triangular and can be slightly open. Bilinear x was used, as was straight-limbed dotted y, the left branch of which curves left and the right hooks left.

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