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w. M. Lindsay
A II 17. part I (e. g. 40T guts es wrongly repeated); Boulo-
gne 64 Augustini Epistolae (Anglosaxon, St Bertin, " saec.
viii " ; e. g. fol. 5r).
Our cancelling stroke was however not unknown (e. g.
Berne Horace, p. 129; Oxford lat. th. d 3), and I fancy that
abbreviation-symbols like (the older) ' quidem ' (Notae Latinae
p. 251 qd with both letters traversed by an oblique stroke
downwards from right to left), ' quam ' (ibid. p. 215) ' dicit', etc.
(ibid. p. 44), 1 respondit ', etc. (ibid. p. 274), ' res ' (ibid,
p. 273), etc., must often have been omitted by transcribers
who believed them to be cancelled letters or letter-groups.
Probably it was the danger of this confusion which led to
the disuse, one after another, of these cross-stroke symbols.
The scribe of the Milan (D 268 inf.) Ambrose avoids this
danger by making the stroke (horizontal) above, not through,
the word (e. g. fol. 15r virtutem, wrongly repeated). But he
merely runs into another danger, for he (like other scribes)
has precisely the same method of indicating foreign words
(cf. Pake. Lat. II p. 19). Similarly in St Petersburg O XIV i
(Anglosaxon script, Corbie) a line is sometimes drawn above
a cancelled word, as above a foreign word. Sometimes it is
drawn in this MS. below the cancelled word (as in Paris 13386,
of asaec. viii"; Vat. Pal. lat. 829; Oxford Laud. lat. 92); and
this is Ratbert's practice in St Petersburg F I 6.
In the half-uncial Paris 13367 (Corbie) a whole passage
is cancelled on fol. 169v, and the scribe (or contemporary
corrector) writes in the margin transi.
w. M. Lindsay
A II 17. part I (e. g. 40T guts es wrongly repeated); Boulo-
gne 64 Augustini Epistolae (Anglosaxon, St Bertin, " saec.
viii " ; e. g. fol. 5r).
Our cancelling stroke was however not unknown (e. g.
Berne Horace, p. 129; Oxford lat. th. d 3), and I fancy that
abbreviation-symbols like (the older) ' quidem ' (Notae Latinae
p. 251 qd with both letters traversed by an oblique stroke
downwards from right to left), ' quam ' (ibid. p. 215) ' dicit', etc.
(ibid. p. 44), 1 respondit ', etc. (ibid. p. 274), ' res ' (ibid,
p. 273), etc., must often have been omitted by transcribers
who believed them to be cancelled letters or letter-groups.
Probably it was the danger of this confusion which led to
the disuse, one after another, of these cross-stroke symbols.
The scribe of the Milan (D 268 inf.) Ambrose avoids this
danger by making the stroke (horizontal) above, not through,
the word (e. g. fol. 15r virtutem, wrongly repeated). But he
merely runs into another danger, for he (like other scribes)
has precisely the same method of indicating foreign words
(cf. Pake. Lat. II p. 19). Similarly in St Petersburg O XIV i
(Anglosaxon script, Corbie) a line is sometimes drawn above
a cancelled word, as above a foreign word. Sometimes it is
drawn in this MS. below the cancelled word (as in Paris 13386,
of asaec. viii"; Vat. Pal. lat. 829; Oxford Laud. lat. 92); and
this is Ratbert's practice in St Petersburg F I 6.
In the half-uncial Paris 13367 (Corbie) a whole passage
is cancelled on fol. 169v, and the scribe (or contemporary
corrector) writes in the margin transi.