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Non-Biblical Glosses and Scholia.

Litera est igitur nota ylementi¹⁷ et uelut imago quaedam uocis literatae, quae cogno­scitur ex qualitate¹⁸ uel quan­titate¹⁹ figurae linearum²⁰. Hoc ergo interest inter ylementa²¹ uel literas²², quod elementa proprie dicuntur ipsae pronunti­ationes²³, notae autem earum literae. Abussiue²⁴ tamen et elementa pro literis et literae pro elementis uocantur. Cum enim dicimus non posse²⁵ constare²⁶ in eadem syllaba r ante p, non de literis²⁷ dicimus, sed de pronun­tiatione earum²⁸, ²⁹: nam quantum³⁰ ad scrip­turam possunt coniungui, non tamen etiam pronun­tiari, nisi post­possita r³¹.

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Sunt igitur figurae¹ literarum quibus nos² utimur uiginti tres, ipsae uero pronunti­ationes³ earum multo ampliores, quippe cum singulae uocales denos⁴, ⁵ in­ueniantur sonos habentes uel plures, … … hámus⁶…

17: .i. not inchoisc .i. pronuntiationis .i. in chumachtai ⁊ indfogair⁠18: .i. ind tóraind .i. cruindæ ꝉ dirge ꝉ uocalis ꝉ consonans⁠19: .i. oméit di­flescaib bís hisin tórunt .i. mad óenflesc is ·i· mad^[1] diḟlisc is ·n· reliqua⁠20: .i. inna­ngláos­nathe^[2] ꝉ innafuath .i. ishé ingloṡnáthe caractar innaliter⁠21: .i. cumachtai^[3]⁠22: carachtra⁠23: .i. derbaisṅdísin · derbḟogir⁠24: .i. ind húadairberthach bith^[4]⁠25: .i. archuit aisṅdisen ⁊ foguir⁠26: .i. hitosug ṡuin⁠27: ní di­chárach­traib⁠28: .i. is archuit foguir ní ruba nand ní archuit scríbind⁠29: [marg.] stirps uinse^[5] ·r· ante ·p· and sudet qui legat ·⏑⁠30: .i. meit as ṅdo scríbund⁠31: .i. an as niarmuídigthe^[6] ·r· ut pro reliqua

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1: .i. inna tóranda⁠2: laitnorib⁠3: .i. fogair⁠4: .i. deichthi⁠5: cóic deich cóica⁠6: .i. ǽcath

17. i.e. a note of signification, i.e. of pronunciation, i.e. of the power continued and of the sound.⁠18. i.e. of the figure, i.e. roundness or straight­ness.⁠19. i.e. from the quantity of strokes in the figure, i.e. if it be one stroke it is an i, if two strokes it is an n, etc.⁠20. i.e. of the lines or of the forms, i.e. the character of the letters is the figure^[7].⁠21. i.e. powers.⁠22. char­acters.⁠23. i.e. certain precise pronun­ciations, certain precise sounds.⁠25. i.e. as regards pronun­ciation and sound.⁠26. i.e. in the beginning of a word.⁠28. i.e. it is as regards sound that it cannot be, not as regards writing.⁠29. stirps: here is r before p therein.⁠30. i.e. as far as writing.⁠31. i.e. when r is postponed, as (in) pro, etc.

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2. (we) Latins^[8].⁠5. five tens, fifty.⁠

1. Here by a kind of sandhi, mat has become mad before the d of dí. So in Wb. 1^c10, ad drogduine from at drogduine, and conatarad Dair, LL. 77^a6, from conatarat Dair
2. MS. innaglaosnaithe
3. rectius cumachtae
4. coined to express ab-usiue
5. uinse (inse Ascoli) = uinnsi .i. atá, O’Cl. huinse Conall Cernach sund LL. 252^c31, unse a ben lasin ríg, ondat a bai issin tír ar far ṁbelaib ‘here is his wife with the king, here are his cows in the country before you,’ LL. 252^a14, undseo LL. 100^a3, undsea 101^a1, 2, unnse, unnsi, ondar B.Ball. 320^b18
6. leg. niarsuidigthe?
7. cf. quae est figura litterarum? caractera quibus scribuntur etc., Clemens Scotus (Suppl. Gramm. Lat. xxxiii.).
8. Cf. ar preceptorib Wb. 19^a3, etc. Pedersen Celt. Zeitschr. ii. 379