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W. M. Lindsay
The same type (with ' pouter-pigeon p') appears in Pal.
lat. 1746 (a great part), 188, 195, etc., MSS. in some (not
all) of which we may recognize the handiwork of Dombercht's
pupil. Also, but in smaller size (the size of the Anglosaxon
minuscule of plate xii), on foil. 58v-62 of Paris lat. 16668.
(The Vatican Collection of Negatives has the negative of
fol. 58v, so that anyone who wishes can procure a photograph
by applying to the Prefect of the Vatican Library).
B. Quire-marks. Normally numerals are used. But often
(maiuscule letters): 175, 200, 284, 920, 1746. In 814 (fol. 22v)
Q (with suprascript stroke, i. e- quaternio) C . in. . The
quire-mark stands occasionally on the first (not the last) page
of the quire: 201, 245, 285 (by the second scribe), 290 II
(usually), 920. A curious feature of the Ambrose MS. 169 is
the use of the letters of ambrosius, e. g-. (16v) M . n. , (24v)
B . in ., (32v) R . mi. , (48v) S . vi..
C. Shelf-marks. I did not find any (early) shelf-mark in
the Lorsch MSS. mentioned above. It is true that most of
them have lost their fly-leaves, and the fly-leaves retained
by the few are often too browned to be legible, often cover-
ed with later scrawls and ' probationes pennae '. Still, if
shelf-marking had been practised, it would probably have
left some trace of itself. In this connexion I may mention an
entry (of the ninth or tenth century) in Pal. lat. 249. For it
refers to a MS. not by this or that shelf-mark but by its
place in the catalogue. The MS. contains the concluding
portion of Gregory's Moralia and the entry (on the recto
of the fly-leaf) is:
iste liber post sextum scribi debet quia pars est ultima.
In the first catalogue in Pal. lat. 1877 there is a correction to
the same effect. For in the Gregory section, after the item:
Sexta quae et ultima continet libros quattuor
a subsequent hand adds the item:
Septima que et ultima continet libros quattuor.
W. M. Lindsay
The same type (with ' pouter-pigeon p') appears in Pal.
lat. 1746 (a great part), 188, 195, etc., MSS. in some (not
all) of which we may recognize the handiwork of Dombercht's
pupil. Also, but in smaller size (the size of the Anglosaxon
minuscule of plate xii), on foil. 58v-62 of Paris lat. 16668.
(The Vatican Collection of Negatives has the negative of
fol. 58v, so that anyone who wishes can procure a photograph
by applying to the Prefect of the Vatican Library).
B. Quire-marks. Normally numerals are used. But often
(maiuscule letters): 175, 200, 284, 920, 1746. In 814 (fol. 22v)
Q (with suprascript stroke, i. e- quaternio) C . in. . The
quire-mark stands occasionally on the first (not the last) page
of the quire: 201, 245, 285 (by the second scribe), 290 II
(usually), 920. A curious feature of the Ambrose MS. 169 is
the use of the letters of ambrosius, e. g-. (16v) M . n. , (24v)
B . in ., (32v) R . mi. , (48v) S . vi..
C. Shelf-marks. I did not find any (early) shelf-mark in
the Lorsch MSS. mentioned above. It is true that most of
them have lost their fly-leaves, and the fly-leaves retained
by the few are often too browned to be legible, often cover-
ed with later scrawls and ' probationes pennae '. Still, if
shelf-marking had been practised, it would probably have
left some trace of itself. In this connexion I may mention an
entry (of the ninth or tenth century) in Pal. lat. 249. For it
refers to a MS. not by this or that shelf-mark but by its
place in the catalogue. The MS. contains the concluding
portion of Gregory's Moralia and the entry (on the recto
of the fly-leaf) is:
iste liber post sextum scribi debet quia pars est ultima.
In the first catalogue in Pal. lat. 1877 there is a correction to
the same effect. For in the Gregory section, after the item:
Sexta quae et ultima continet libros quattuor
a subsequent hand adds the item:
Septima que et ultima continet libros quattuor.