Ancestors

Toot

Written by Anna Dorofeeva on 2024-11-27 at 17:14

It's always a delight when a scribe finishes the page with an exuberant flourish on the final letter, just because they can - as in this 9th-century manuscript, where the final long s (shaped like a modern f) is curling wildly into the lines above. #palaeography

Fol. 5r: https://i3f.vls.io/?collection=i3fddbk&id=https://digital.dombibliothek-koeln.de/hs/i3f/v20/225149/manifest&toc=false&view=gallery

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Descendants

Written by Anna Dorofeeva on 2024-11-27 at 17:19

This is an #INSULAR manuscript, which means it was written in Germany but has associations with the British Isles. So the flourish on the final s may actually come from a similar Northumbrian practice. See for example the Salaberga Psalter, in which many final letters have beautiful formal flourishes. This is one of the many questions our project will be investigating! #palaeography

7r: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/werkansicht?PPN=PPN838718817&PHYSID=PHYS_0019&DMDID=DMDLOG_0002&view=overview-toc

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Written by Mark Saltveit on 2024-11-27 at 17:28

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Beautiful!!

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