Volume / Number: 7 / 901

• Sankt Gallen Switzerland Stiftsbibliothek 51 [palimpsest new]

Written presumably in Ireland. The manuscript is not mentioned in the St Gall list of 'Libri Scottice scripti' drawn up in the middle of the ninth century. The entry ‘lib ᷤ sci galli' (saec. XIII) stands on p. 1.

Script is an angular somewhat compressed Irish majuscule with d ꝺ, n, R r, S ꞅ (with d, R, S more frequent); Ᵹ and ꞇ at the beginning of lines have their horizontals often descending in a flourish to the left; ligatures, chiefly at line-end, include em with the m lying on its side, mo, tio, ut. Corrections and probationes pennae (p. 1, 268) in Caroline minuscule saec. IX; some are scratched in with a stylus.

☛Gamber, CLLA 147.

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