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Now here's a fascinating page! Here we see two colored capital letter "A's" on the same page that are written in entirely different styles! There seem to be numerous different styles of capitals throughout which indicates either a huge number of scribes working on the same text, or perhaps even a scribe in training, learning to do different styles of lettering.
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This was like a dream to work with as the very first medieval manuscript I ever properly studied and researched. The lack of miniatures aside, it was very pretty, well-preserved enough that I only needed a little care to handle it, and it had so many features that taught me a great deal about the structure of the medieval book as an object.
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TristanAlexander
Nice points, love the second A. As a Medievalist I have argued that calligraphy "hands" as we know them are modern inventions. In period they varied greatly from scribe to scribe (and as you show sometimes even in the same manuscript.)