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  • 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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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 123.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 350
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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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Manuscript title: Sacramentarium Gelasianum (fragm.)
Date of origin: Saec. VIII-IX.
Support: Parchment well prepared. (pp. 117/118 are a paper fly-leaf);
Extent: Foll. 58
Format: ca. 22,5 x ca. 14,7 cm
Foliation: Paginated 1-116.
Collation: Gatherings of eight, with flesh-side outside and arranged so that flesh faces hair within the quire; signed in the middle of the lower margin of the last page with Roman numerals, some ornamentally enclosed; only quire-marks XII, XIII, XLII-XLVIII survive.
Page layout: (170-175 x 100-105 mm.) in 18 long lines. Ruling before folding, on the flesh side, 2 or 4 bifolia at a time. Double bounding lines in both margins. Prickings in the outer margin guided the ruling.
Writing and hands:
  • Punctuation: the main pause marked by a medial point or ., or semicolon, lesser pauses by a medial point; many points added. Accents occur over monosyllables.
  • Abbreviations include the normal forms of Nomina Sacra and b;, q: = bus, que; fr̄s = fratres; e̅ = est; , ꝳ and ꝴ (with the cross-stroke looped) = men, mus and nus; n̅ = non; n̅r̅, n̅ = noster, -um; op̅s = omnipotens; ꝑ, p·,  = per, post, prae; ꞅɫ, r̅ = rum, runt; sic̄ = sicut; ꞇ̄, ꞇ̓ = ter, tur; , u̅ = uel, uer.
  • Syllabification: resurre-xit. The m-stroke is a vertical flourish. Spelling shows confusion of ci and ti.
  • Script is a roundish, typical Rhaetian minuscule resembling Beneventan and Visigothic in its forms of a and t; the uncial form of a is also used; g is longish, the top forms a closed loop to the left; z has a striking form going far below the line; Ɛ is used for hard ti; the form of uncial N is noteworthy.
  • Ink brown or black.
Decoration:
  • Headings in uncial mixed with minuscule in red and sometimes in greenish-gold (bronze), partly with a brownish wash.
  • Initials, characteristically slender, are of the type found in St. Gall MS. 348 (our No. 936), but by a less skilful artist; they show red, green, yellow, violet, and greenish-gold (bronze), some being surrounded oy red dots.
Origin of the manuscript: Written in the Rhaetian scriptorium that produced the famous Gelasian Sacramentary, St. Gall MS. 348 (our No. 936), most probably Chur.
Provenance of the manuscript: Later history unknown.