St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 349

Lowe Elias Avery, Codices Latini Antiquiores. A palaeographical guide to latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part VII: Switzerland, Oxford 1956 (Osnabrück 1982), p. 29.

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Support: Parchment and paper

Extent: 124 pages

Format: ca. 23,0 x ca. 13,8 cm

Codicological unit: 349 (pp. 5-36)

Manuscript title: Orationes

Date of origin: Saec. VIII2

Support: Parchment well prepared. (124 pages in the entire volume: pp. 1-4 and 121-124 are paper fly-leaves; for pp. 37-120, containing Statuta liturgica et monastica in Alemannic minuscule saec. VIII2, see next item).

Extent: 124 pages

Format: ca. 23,0 x ca. 13,8 cm

Foliation: Paginated 5-36.

Collation: Sixteen folios. Gatherings of eight, with hair-side outside; no quire-marks exist.

Page layout: (177-182 x 105-110 mm.) in 18 or 19 long lines. Ruling before folding, on the hair-side, 4 bifolia at a time, with the direct impression on the outer bifolium. Double bounding lines in the outer margin, single or double in the inner. Prickings in the outer margin guided the ruling.

Writing and hands:

Punctuation: the medial comma or the semicolon marks the main pause, the medial point lesser pauses.
Run-overs carried to the line below are supported by a curved line.
Abbreviations include b;, q; = bus, que;  = bis; , ꝳ = men, mus; n̅ = nostrum; op̅s = omnipotens; ꝑ, , ꝓ = per, prae, pro; ꞇ̅ = ter; the Insular symbol p~ = per occurs several times in the formula per dominum nostrum, etc.
Spelling shows frequent confusion of e and i, o and u; ci occurs for ti.
Script is a big roundish, typical Alemannic minuscule:  is more frequent than a; the nt ligature occurs often in mid-word.
Ink dark brown.

Decoration:

Headings in broad Square capitals or in uncial.
Initials are large black capitals; an uncoloured hollow initial is seen on p. 25.

Contents:

pp. 5-36 Orationes

Origin of the manuscript: Written most likely at St. Gall, certainly in the Lake Constance region.

Codicological unit: 349 (pp. 37-120)

Manuscript title: Statuta Liturgica et Monastica

Date of origin: Saec. VIII2

Support: Parchment well prepared.

Extent: Foll. 42

Format: ca. 21,5-22,5 x ca. 13,8 cm

Foliation: Paginated 37-120 (for pp. 5-36, see preceding item).

Collation: Gatherings of eight or six, with hair-side outside, signed with majuscule letters in the middle of the lower margin of the last page.

Page layout: (170-175 x ca. 105 mm.) in 23-25 long lines. Ruling before folding, on the hair-side, usually a quire at a time, with the direct impression on the outer bifolium. Double bounding lines in the outer margin and single in the inner. Prickings in the outer margin guided the ruling.

Writing and hands:

Punctuation: the main pause is marked by a semicolon or by a medial point which also marks lesser pauses.
Abbreviations include b: = bus, q: = que; aū = autem;  = bis; ep̅s = episcopus; e̅e̅, e̅ = esse, est; fr̄s = fratres; n̅ = non; n̅ꞇ̅ and ns̅tr, n̅i̅ = noster, -ri; o = omnes; ꝑ, , p̅p̅ꞇ̅ = per, prae, propter; pre̅bo = presbytero; qˢ, q = qui, quod; ꞅɫ rum; r̅ꞇ̅, s̅ꞇ̅ = runt, sunt; ꞇ̅ = ter; u̅ = uel; noteworthy is the curious form ⸝(the last stroke of the  crossed obliquely) for autem (pp. 103, 104, et passim).
Omitted n in mid-word is marked by a vertical flourish.
Spelling and text extremely corrupt with confusion of a for u, e and i, o and u, s for ss, ci for ti, etc.
Script is a typical roundish Alemannic minuscule:  is more frequent than a; the shoulder of r often extends over following i; the nt ligature occurs in mid-word; Ɛ is used for hard and soft ti. A somewhat later entry on the lower half of p. 118 and on p. 119 is also in the Alemannic type.

Decoration:

Headings in uncial or capitals.
An uncoloured compass-drawn initial of Alemannic type on p. 39.
A carefully drawn pen-and-ink sketch of a hand in gesture of blessing stands in the lower margin of p. 116.

Contents:

pp. 37-120 Statuta Liturgica et Monastica

Origin of the manuscript: Written most likely at St. Gall, certainly in the Lake Constance region (see preceding item).