Volume / Number: 11 / 1622

• St Petersburg Russia Russian National Library Lat. Q. v. I. 1

Written in England and possibly in the same scriptorium as the Palatine Paulinus manuscript (CLA 1.87) with which it agrees in several palaeographical features. Provenance Corbie: the MS is item 241 in the twelfth-century catalogue. Taken to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1638, where it bore the numbers 481 and 613. Acquired by Peter Dubrowsky in 1791 and by the Imperial Library in 1805.

Script, by more than one hand, is compressed Anglo-Saxon minuscule with frequent intrusion of majuscule a, N, R, and S; the first stroke of open a often curves backward; tall c used here and there; e with the inverted lower bow occurs; g has various forms; r is short; u is often a suprascript flourish; noteworthy are the ligatures bi (fol. 12) and fi (f transected by an s-like flourish); script often becomes pointed minuscule at the end of a poem or a page. Title added in Caroline minuscule saec. IX or X on fol. 2.

• Provenance: Corbie library—Eighth-century Insular MSS present before ca 800 (Ganz 1990)
• Provenance: Corbie library—MSS from Corbie (Zechiel-Eckes)