French Leaf from a Breviary ca. 1150
This script has an oval aspect and has specific letters that make it easy to identify the script. S’s have a bar to the left, b’s with a club head, and a variation of d’s either with a curve to the ascender or a vertical d. There are Carolingian remnants but also fusions and ligatures which places it into the Protogothic category.
Breviary. France. ca.1150. Leaf Measurement 192 x 277 mm. Text Measurement 163 x 250 mm. Text, Psalm 138. In Latin. Script: Protogothic and Roman Rustic Capitals.
Detail of Leaf from a Breviary
Many of the rubricated letters Rustic Capitals are instructions to the priest