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(p. 357) The vertical stroke thickens at both ends, as does the short horizontal line.
Among the small letters the a appears which is formed in the likeness of the
Carolingian minuscule 76 . The hook which extends a little above the angular bowl
gives the letter a distinct appearance.
The raised e no longer appears.
g has a long horizontal stroke, in the middle of which the descender begins as a short,
very thick slanted stroke; this then flows into a wide curve, the upper part of which is
still very thick; the lower curve has a new starting point and is initially thin,
thickening towards the end. This results in the appearing angular.
The round s as a small letter has a horizontal middle axis, the curves are broken, the
upper one denser. The high s, its shaft curved to the right and with a high, thin
ascender, the end of which flows into a semicircle, is also characteristic of this script.
The descender no longer ends in a point.
The joined letter ae has a new form through the use of the Caroline a.
m and n now constantly have a thickening of the main strokes and are often short,
thick horizontal lines.
In the Anglo-Saxon Eadgar A uses the rune þ and the crossed d. The former has a
very high shaft, but the angular right-hand side now sits in the middle. The rune ƿ has
already on several occasions been replaced in the signatures by uu.
Abbreviations are used by Eadgar A more frequently only in the Anglo-Saxon Mss.
III, 30, (probably due to the lack of space). New abbreviations here are the following:
(with bar above) (see e.g. Anc. Ch. III, 22, line 5 liberalit(er).); rł = reliqua (Anc.
Ch. III, 24) and noma = nomina (Anc. Ch. III, 24, 8 lines from the bottom).
During the following period up to 975, every individual and apparently original
manuscript 77 that was passed down was subject to special examination to determine
its authenticity. However, this is not relevant to our study.
3. Results of the Comparison of Diplomatic formulae (p. 357)
We could only refer to the original manuscripts or facsimiles for comparing the types
of scripts used in charters, but it is possible to use edited versions for the investigation
into and comparison of diplomatic formulae.
76 In Anc. Ch. III, 25 Eadgar A tries to copy the old a 1 . This stiff, square letter, however, immediately
disappears again.
77 Although the two charters, which are not facsimilied (C. S. 1305 in Ely and C. S. 1309 in
Westminster), show the style in parts of Eadgar A, they differ in wording from all other charters of this
group, and to such an extent that they cannot be put together with any others. Moreover, they differ
from each other so greatly that we cannot believe they were written with the same hand. As they also
originate from archives that are not necessarily reliable, we consider ourselves justified in excluding
these from our considerations.
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