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This is a collection of sheets (42 in all) from a dismembered manuscript of Gregory the Great’s Dialogi […]. The manuscript was taken apart at St. Gallen where the individual sheets were then used as covers, records, and reinforcements. Scholars believe that difficulty in reading the obsolete pre-Carolingian script used in the text probably led to its abandonment favour of other copies that were easier to read (the 10th century St. Gallen 215, for example.) The manuscript appears to have been produced in a centre of a certain calibre as shown by the script and decoration […]. Georg Waitz used the manuscript for his partial edition of the Dialogi, published in 1878. Despite the fact that there is no explicit evaluation of the codex, we can conclude from the initial selected (*1), following the conventions used at the time for the collection, that it was considered by the editor to be of particular quality and age but difficult to use because it was incomplete. […] Subsequent editors, Umberto Moricca (1924), who made use only of the Italian tradition, and Adalbert de Vogüé (1978-80) no longer adopted the St. Gallen 214 manuscript. However, the latter did use one of the other St. Gallen manuscripts, no. 213, a complete text dating from the 8th century, which had also been used by Waitz.
PAOLO CHIESA
Reproduced here: p. 11 with incipit to the Dialogi.
The complete record can be found in the exhibit catalogue Gregorio Magno e l'invenzione del Medioevo, ed. Luigi G. G. Ricci, Florence, SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo 2006 (Archivum Gregorianum, 9).