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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture Greetings, Frans "The quick Swiss monk jumped over the lazy Kahuna"?? More seriously, I don't see that any of the _probationes pennae_ on the page in question http://tinyurl.com/2gckrr have gotten beyond 'Zephyri'. Are you sure that at St. Gall they wrote 'Kauna'? That, after all, was one of the few places in Carolingian-period western Europe where enough Greek was known to lead one to expect 'Kauma' (the ancestor of our 'calm'). Wishing for a little kauma myself right now (with moderating zephyrs, of course), Best, John Dillon On Sunday, February 11, 2007, at 1:28 pm, you wrote: > Rochelle, > Thank you, that is most fascinating, indeed. There's always something > new you > can learn. The Saint Gall manuscript, incidentally, with its various > "probationes pennae" (including the hexameter "Adnexique globum Zephyrique > Kauna secabant", as well as Luke 1:1, and Psalms 1:1) gave me a good > idea for > teaching my next class in palaeography. Thank you for drawing my > attention to > it. ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html