Volume / Number: 7 / 930

• Sankt Gallen Switzerland Stiftsbibliothek 227

Origin uncertain. The manuscript was written in the centre that produced St Gall MS 108 and the group of manuscripts associated with it (see CLA 7.905). Verona is suggested by the abbreviation for 'misericordia' and by the presence of the rhythmic hexameters on p. 144 in which Egino, bishop of Verona (796–799), is spoken of as 'eximius pastor' 'qui hoc iussit patrare istique librum nomen Egini'; but both may come from the exemplar, and the position of the poem in the manuscript strongly favours such a view. A centre north of the Alps is not to be excluded. The manuscript appears in the St Gall catalogue of 1461.

Script, by several hands, is pre-Caroline minuscule of a distinct type (cf. CLA 7.905 and the group of manuscripts listed there): the characteristic letter is r with its shoulder turned firmly up; open a is the rule; i-longa is used initially ('Ieiunia'); ascenders and descenders are long; the ti ligature is used for soft ti. Some Old High German names were entered, saec. IX, on p. 1 and 2.

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