Volume / Number: 7 / 899

• Sankt Gallen Switzerland Stiftsbibliothek 44 (p. 1–184)

Written for St Gall, presumably in the monastery itself, at the order of John II, Bishop of Constance (760–81), who was also abbot of St Gall and Reichenau (see the inscription on p. 183). Our volume probably continues the set of the Prophets begun in St Gall MS 40 (see CLA 7.898) with which it agrees in size and script.

Script is a pre-Caroline minuscule of the roundish Alemannic type, by several hands: open a is more frequent than a; z is tall; ligatures include fe, fi, fio, mt, nt (often in mid-word), ti ligature (for hard and soft ti); the characteristic letter in the uncial is N with the long first stroke and the oblique extending beyond the second upright. Somewhat cursive minuscule is seen on last line of p. 107. Numerous corrections saec. VIII and IX. Probationes pennae and neumes occur on pp. 181–4.

☛Weber-Gryson, Vulgata MS S (Ez–Mal).

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• Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
• Script: MSS containing Alemannic minuscule (Maag 2014)
• Text: MS witnesses to Weber-Gryson, Vulgata text (Old Testament)