Codex

[g_scaff]

Hails, thank you all for your helpful posts!  Gregory
>
> 
> > --- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "g_scaff" <g_scaff@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hails,
> > >    R.Elliot in his book _Runes, An Introduction_, pg34 refers 
to 
> > > a "Salzburg codex 140, now codex 795" of the Austrian national
> Library 
> > > in Wien, a manuscript which has the rune and letter names in 
> > > Gothic/Gepidic.  
> > >     The codex Vindobonensis 795 on gotica.de is clearly not 
this 
> > > manuscript, does anyone know of the codex I'm looking for, and
> where it 
> > > might be on the web?  
> > >                               Thank you, Gregory
> 
> It's the same manuscript, but this is just a part of the Gothic
> material in it. Besides the numbers and sample phrases here [
> http://www.gotica.de/vindobonensis.html ], the codex contains two
> versions of the Gothic alphabet, along with the Gothic names for 
their
> letters, apparently transcribed according to Old High German 
spelling
> conventions. Titus has a list of the names alongside those of the
> runes for comparison [
> http://titus.fkidg1.uni-frankfurt.de/didact/idg/germ/runennam.htm ].
>


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