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script would seem to be a development of what T. A. M. Bishop calls
Style I of the Anglo-Caroline minuscule, described as ‘a plain
treatment of the basic Caroline forms, broad and rounded, with
excellent proportions and composition and a monumental firmness’.2
Our fragment does not belong to the well-defined group of manuscripts
of Style I associated with St. Æthelwold’s Abingdon;3 however, wholly
devoid of ct- and rt- ligatures which crop up in the eleventh century, it
is likely to belong in the late tenth century. A point of reference is
furnished by the neumes, which according to Michel Huglo are very
close to those of the manuscripts of the Winchester Troper (HBS 8) of
the early eleventh century. See Plates 1-3.
1
[XV. KAL. DEC. NATALE SANCTI ANIANI EPISCOPI...]
[Prefatio. ]
(i)r [Beati Aniani (?) natalicia recensentes deprecamur misericor]diam
tuam. ut qui in conspectu tuo [clarus extitit dignitatje sacerdoti(i) et
palma confessionis (sic) [et in presenti seculo sua no]s intercessione
foueat et ad mi[sericordiam sempitemam] pius interuentorum (sic)
perducat. per.
cf. Sp 1669, where this preface, with the reading ‘palma martyrii’ belongs to St.
Cyprianus: Item alia specialis in festiuitate S. Cypriani. With reference to the
following postcommunion we have in this case attributed it to St. Anianus of Orléans,
17 November.
Postcommunio.
[Ut nobis domine tua sacr]ificia dent salutem beatus [Anianus (?)
confessor tuu]s et pontifex 'quesumus' precator accedat. per.
precator] corr. by erasure from predicator
Jum 225 for St. Anianus; GrP 827 In natale unius sancti; GeS 1479 unius
confessoris; GeS 1333 Translatio S. Augustini episcopi (18 October); Sp 208* Natale
S. Augustini (28 August).
2 See T. A. M. Bishop, English Caroline Minuscule (Oxford 1971), Introduction, p.
xxi; Plate IX, lower half.
3 Ibid., pp. xxi sq.; Plate X.