Today is the feast of Isidore of Seville! Several MSS to share of the 1000+ that survive; I'll put them in separate posts. St. Gall 226 consists of surviving leaves of a *papyrus* codex from later 7th-c. southern France! This is the only papyrus MS in the St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek. 🧵#medievalsky - ThreadSky

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carinr.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Today is the feast of Isidore of Seville! Several MSS to share of the 1000+ that survive; I'll put them in separate posts. St. Gall 226 consists of surviving leaves of a *papyrus* codex from later 7th-c. southern France! This is the only papyrus MS in the St. Gall Stiftsbibliothek. 🧵#medievalsky

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carinr.bsky.social•3 days ago

The very tall LLs and ascender of h and descenders of p and q almost make this look like a minuscule at first glance. But it is Uncial, not Half-Uncial. Characteristic Uncial forms of A, B, E, D, G, M, R, and S are all present. The arrows point at them in this detail. #paleography

carinr.bsky.social•3 days ago

As a reminder of what Half-Uncial would look like, see my earlier post on Hilary of Poitiers: https://bsky.app/profile/carinr.bsky.social/post/3lfn2bemxgk2j

carinr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here is the papyrus Isidore manuscript at e-codices: https://e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0226 and here is the entry at ELMSS with Lowe's opinion on the script: https://elmss.nuigalway.ie/catalogue/1391

carinr.bsky.social•3 days ago

Here is a preliminary leaf with "Probationes pennae ('adnexique', etc.) in minuscule saec. VIII–IX and a prayer in barbarous Latin written in Merovingian cursive minuscule saec. VIII" (Lowe). Depending on the headache situation, I may come back and try to transcribe it later.

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