Volume / Number: 11 / 1599

• St Petersburg Russia Russian National Library Lat. F. v. I. 3 (foll. 1–38)

Written probably in Northumbria, possibly by Northumbrian scribes in a Continental centre, and in the same scriptorium that produced the manuscript of Jerome on Isaiah with which it is bound (see next item). Belonged to Corbie.

Script of the text is uncial of a Northumbrian type: h and M seem to have knobbed finials; LL usually run together; S is distinctly top-heavy. The text was written with disproportionately wide intervals between the lines in order to leave room for glosses; text and glosses can be regarded as contemporary. Script of the glosses is Anglo-Saxon minuscule with r normally short and u often cup-shaped and suprascript; subscript i and o occur; ligature of tio has the o on the top of t, as in the script of the Northumbrian Peregrinus (CLA 9.1283, fig. 2, line 4: excussationis). The Explicit-line has a doxology in a slightly more fanciful minuscule (fol. 38). A corrector saec. XI expanded the unfamiliar abbreviations.

☛Index Tironianorum ☛Weber-Gryson, Vulgata MS D (Iob).

• Provenance: Corbie library—Eighth-century Insular MSS present before ca 800 (Ganz 1990)
• Text: MSS containing biblical text (including Gospels)
• Text: MSS containing exegetical works
• Provenance: Corbie library—MSS from Corbie (Zechiel-Eckes)
• Text: MS witnesses to Weber-Gryson, Vulgata text (Old Testament)