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Early Irish Fragment

F-5rs7

Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Min. 25a

Lowe Elias Avery: Codices Latini Antiquiores. A palaeographical guide to latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part VII: Switzerland, Oxford 1956 (Osnabrück 1982)., No. 999 (Born Digital)

General Information

Title Early Irish Fragment
Material Parchment
Place of Origin Ireland
Script, Hands

Script is Insular majuscule, probably Irish rather than Anglo-Saxon, with d, R, S and ꞅ.

Original Condition

Page Height 240 mm
Page Width 10 mm
Height of Written Area 240 mm
Width of Written Area 10 mm
Number of Lines at least 9

Current Condition

Dimensions 240 x 10 mm

History

Origin

Written in an Insular centre, presumably in Ireland, to judge by the script.
Provenance

Provenance the monastery of Allerheiligen at Schaffhausen. The fragment was discovered in the 20th century in the manuscript Min. 25 (Schaffhausen, 1080-1096) and removed from the fold between leaves 7/8. The volume from which the fragment was taken has the fourteenth-century ex-libris: 'Iste liber est monast. Scaph.' (fol. 1).

Host Volume

Title Collectio quinquaginta homiliarum
Date of Origin/Publication 1080-1096
Place of Origin/Publication Schaffhausen
Shelfmark Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Min. 25
Remarks

https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/sbs/min0025

Bibliography

    1. Gamper, Rudolf / Knoch-Mund, Gaby / Stähli, Marlis: Katalog der mittelalterlichen Handschriften der Ministerialbibliothek Schaffhausen, Dietikon-Zürich 1994, S. 111-112.

    2. CLA 7, Nr. 999 [Codices Latini antiquiores. 7. Switzerland, ed. by E. A. Lowe. Oxford 1956].
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