Pauline Fragmenta: An Unlisted Commentary on the Pauline Letters from the Hiberno-Latin Tradition (St Gall 877)

A single quire at the end of the manuscript St Gall 877 contains a very fragmentary commentary on the Pauline epistles. It can probably be dated to the early ninth century. An examination of the content shows that it is closely related to the commentary found in Munich, BSB, Clm 6235, and that the text of which it is a remnant was known to Sedulius Scottus. The manuscript seems to have gone unnoticed in studies of the Hiberno-Latin biblical commentaries. The present article is intended to rescue this text from the oblivion into which it has fallen, and to draw attention to the contributions it can make towards filling some of the gaps in our knowledge of these texts.