Codex Vindobonensis 795

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The Codex Vindobonensis 795 (Vienna Austrian National Library Codex) is a 9th-century manuscript.

It contains letters and treatises by Alcuin, including a discussion of the Gothic alphabet.

It also contains a description of the Anglo-Saxon futhorc.

Further reading

  • Ebbinghaus, Ernst A.: The Gotica of Codex Vindobonensis 795 (in: Germanic studies in honor of Otto Springer [ed.: Stephen J. Kaplowitt], Pittsburgh [K&S Enterprises] 1978, pp. 93–102).
  • Ebbinghaus, Ernst A.: Gotica XIX, GL 23:1 (1983) 48-50 [pp. 48–49 on folium 20 of Codex Vindobonensis].
  • Rotsaert, Marie-Louise: Per una definizione delle fonti gotiche del Codex Vindobonensis 795 - appunti metodologici (in: Patrizia Lendinara & Lucio Melazzo [eds.]: Feor ond neah [memorial volume Augusto Scaffidi Abbate], Palermo [università] 1983 [= Annali della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Studi e ricerche 3].