Hand: Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266), CCCC 223

Name
Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
Manuscript
CCCC 223
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)

The glosses from page 185 onwards seem to have been written by a different scribe than G.70-1. A much thinner pen was used, and ascenders are longer and have a more obvious wedge than earlier in the manuscript. Teardrop-shaped a is found most often, although the semi-Caroline form was also used. The a-component of æ is quite round, the tongue is high and rising, and the hook is round. Horned e was used, and the back of d is long and angled at about 10° but vertical-tipped. The tongue of f is short and flat. Insular g was used, the mid-section of which is small but the tail large, round, open, and turned up at the tip. The shoulders of m and n are rounded and very deeply split, the entire letter probably being written with a single stroke. The only example of r is Caroline (flora, p. 266). Tall s was used in the marginal gloss on page 200, sitting on the base-line and with a very high, thin, and somewhat bulging hook. The interlinear gloss on page 263 has low s, the hook of which reaches out to the right. Straight-limbed, undotted y was used.

Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)

Allographs List

a, Insular

a, Insular. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
æ, Insular

æ, Insular. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
l

l. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
m

m. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
n

n. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
wynn

wynn. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)
y, Straight

y, Straight. Five Inked Glosses (pp. 185, 200, 255, 263, 266)