Volume / Number: 7 / 967a

• Sankt Gallen Switzerland Stiftsbibliothek 912 (p. 1–188, 191–224, 227–320) [palimpsest new]

Written no doubt in North Italy, manifestly in a centre where many ancient texts existed. Was already in some Swiss centre by saec. VIII–IX, to judge by the restorations of that date (see next item).

Script, by several scribes, is a late, rather pointed uncial; the sloping form it occasionally assumes in both text and marginalia (p. 13, 27, 204) illustrates the declining stage of the script: half-uncial a occurs here and there; the second upright of N is often comma-shaped; X often has the lower left branch sweeping below the line and ending in a curve to the right, as in the Edictus Rothari (see CLA 7.949); a curious North Italian cursive minuscule with many ligatures is used on p. 201. Additions by various eighth-century hands in uncial or mixed uncial and minuscule.

• http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0912

• Script: MSS with sloping uncial, half-uncial, or quarter-uncial marginalia