MS 631

Examples of ancient and medieval scribal hands [manuscript]

England?, 1900-2000.

[33] leaves ; 115 x 180 mm.

Facsimiles mostly written in Latin with one example in Old English.

Cataloguer devised title.

Material: modern paper.

Format: individual leaves tied together by a string.

Dimensions: varying from 115 x 180 mm to 64 x 115 mm.

Contents: f.1: square capitals (5th century) and a script with the morphology of capitalis but a simplified ductus, its aspect reminding of old Roman cursive (1st century) ; f.2: two examples of capitalis (4th and 5th century) with different degrees of compression ; ff.3-4: four examples of uncial script (4th to 7th century) ; f.5: halfway capital script, with uncial and capitalis elements (6th century); uncial (6-7th century); uncial with Anglo-Saxon R (6-7th century) ; f.6: Beneventan (13th century); a continental (7/8th century) ; f.7: Beneventan ; f.8: two examples of Beneventan (8/9th century and 9th century), with the aspect of the former example resembling caroline minuscule ; f.9: New Roman cursive (6th century) and insular cursive (7th century) ; f.10: two examples of half uncial (before 509, before 519) ; f.11: caroline minuscule (9th century) and early protogothic (10th century) ; f.12r: protogothic (12th century) and Luxeuil (7th century) ; f.12v: Luxeuil (AD 669) ; f.13: two examples of corbie AB script (8th and late 7th century) ; f.14: Corbie AB script (8th century) and Luxeuil (8th century) ; f.15: Luxeuil (8th century) and caroline minuscule (early 9th century) ; f.16: caroline minuscule (9th century) and half uncial (late 7th century) ; f.17: two examples of insular half-uncial (7th century and c.800) ; f.18: two examples of insular minuscule (8th and 12th century) ; f.19: two examples of insular half-uncial (700 and late 8th century) ; f.20: Anglo-Saxon majuscule (mid-8th century) and insular minuscule (9th century) ; f.21: continental minuscule -- not caroline minuscule both not evidently one of the national hands (mid-9th century) and insular minuscule (mid-9th century) ; f.22: continental minuscule - not caroline minuscule both not evidently one of the national hands (10th century) and Anglo-Saxon majuscule (mid-10th century) ; f.23: square Anglo-Saxon minuscule (11th century) ; ff.24-25: four examples of caroline minuscule from the 9th century ; f.26: two examples of caroline minuscule from the 10th century ; f.27: two examples of caroline minuscule from the 9th century ; f.28: two examples of caroline minuscule from the 11th century ; f.29: two examples of caroline minuscule (end of 11th century and mid-10th century) ; f.30: late and compressed caroline minuscule (11th century) and protogothic (no date) ; f.31: protogothic (no date and 12th century) ; f.32: continental minuscule - set script (mid-15th century) ; f.33: humanistic set script (mid-15th century) and Corbie AB script (late 9th century).

Eton College Library, MS 631.

Origin: unknown.

Provenance: possibly collected or written by Wilfrid Blunt, who collected modern calligraphy examples (e.g. MS 793).

Palaeography, Latin.

Manuscripts, medieval Facsimiles.

Blunt, Wilfrid, 1901 - 1987

England.

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B52644