Volume / Number: 7 / 860

• Bern Switzerland Burgerbibliothek 219 B

Written in a French centre with Insular connections, possibly by Pallagius himself, whose letter-square we reproduce; the date is fixed as the fifth year of King Childebert while Pepin was major domo. Was already at Fleury in the eleventh century: the ex-libris ‘hic est liber s . . . abb floriacensis’ stands on fol. 11. Belonged to Pierre Daniel, and then to Jacques Bongars (†1612), whose heir, Jacques Gravisset, donated it in 1632 to the city of Bern.

Script is an easy, natural, rather broad uncial of a late type: the lower bow of B protrudes markedly; LL run together; half-uncial a, long r, and ꞅ occur at line-end. Noteworthy is the form of the capitals used in the text and particularly in the inscription on fol. 1 (see CLA 5.617), in which the stem of certain letters extends beyond the junction with its bow (B, D, P, R) or its horizontal (L); the serif forms betray the influence of inscriptions. The letter-square on fol. 76v discloses the name 'pallagius'; it is by the same hand as the rest of the manuscript though in a different script, a half-uncial manifestly modelled on early Insular; another letter-square, containing the name 'Rainfredus' in Rustic capitals saec. IX or X, is seen on the same page. Various probationes pennae saec. IX and X on fol. 77.

☛Mostert, Fleury BF117. ☛CLA date (VII ex (ante 699–700)) changed to agree with inscription fol. 1r: In annum V. Childeberti regis Francorum Pippino iubente ab Adam sunt anni V milia DCCCC. Fuit pasca X. Kal. Aprilis, ascensio Domini fuit Kal. Madias. Per cyclum numerum annorum CXL, repeticio a capite cychli.

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• Origin: Merovingian MSS, a provisional handlist (Wood 2017)
• Provenance: Fleury library (Mostert 1989)
• Script: MSS with named scribes (John 1995 with additions)
• CLA information changed