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Anonymous ... glossator in Karlsruhe MSS 167 and 132

Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 132 = Karlsruhe Priscian [s. ix^med] • Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 167 [s. ix]

Anonymous ... i¹ (s. ix)

Anonymous scribe/annotator whose Irish hand is detected in a number of continental manuscripts of Eriugena’s works. Since a study by E. K. Rand, the hand is usually designatedl i¹, distinguishing it from that of a fellow scribe, which is designated i². T. A. M. Bishop, Edouard Jeauneau and Bernhard Bischoff identified it as the hand of Eriugena himself, but others have argued that he was probably one of his assistants.

Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 875 [s. ix^3/4]

Anonymous ... i² (s. ix)

Anonymous scribe/annotator whose Irish hand is detected in a number of continental manuscripts of Eriugena’s works and who was probably an assistant of Eriugena. Since a study by E. K. Rand, the hand is usually designatedl i², distinguishing it from that of a fellow scribe, which is designated i¹. Because he is known to have written annotations beg. Nisi forte quis dixerit to some of Eriugena’s bolder statements, modern scholars have nicknamed him Nisifortinus.

Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 55 flyleaves [s. ix^2/3] • Leiden, University Library, MS BPL 88 22-23 [s. ix?] • Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 875 [s. ix^3/4]

Anonymous ... Irish hand of Karlsruhe MSS 195 and 132

Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. perg. 132 = Karlsruhe Priscian [s. ix^med]

Cadmug

Fulda, Landesbibliothek, MS Bonifatianus 3 = Cadmug gospels [s. viii/ixⁱⁿ]

Díarmait ... scribe

Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS C 301 inf = Codex Ambrosianus C 301 inf [s. ix]

Fer Domnach

Dublin, Trinity College, MS 52 (52) = Book of Armagh (Liber Ardmachanus) [c. 807]

Iunobrus

Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 221 (193) [s. viii^ex/ixⁱⁿ]

John Scottus Eriugena (fl 9th century)

Irish scholar and theologian who had been active as a teacher at the palace school of Charles the Bald.

Máel Brigte mac Tornáin

London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 1370 = Mac Durnan Gospels [s. ix^ex/xⁱⁿ]

Máel Caích

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS D ii 3 ff. 12-67 (1238) = Stowe Missal (proper) [s. ix¹]

Marianus Scottus of Regensburg (d. 1080 x 1083)

Irish scribe, who founded the Irish monastic community at Regensburg (Ratisbon) in Bavaria, the first of the Schottenklöster to be founded in southern Germany.

Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, MS 1247 [1079]

Later, secondary hand: Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 12741 [830s] • Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14345 [s. ix^med]

Martin of Laon (819–875)

Irish scholar and teacher at the cathedral school at Laon.

Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 444 ff. 1-4, 276-319 [s. ix^3/4] • Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 468 = Glossae super Virgilium et Sedulium [s. ix^3/4]

Núadu ... scribe

Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff. 4. 42 = Cambridge Juvencus [ix² + x¹]

Tetharius

Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS Rhen. 81 pp. 352-379 [s. ix]