51v, 9, exsistat 52v, 1, comprouasse
12, inlustri 11, collegae
14, inbutus 17, impetrassent
52r, 18, admonebitur 53r, 8, accusationibus
52v,} 20, inplorantes 15, comparatum
22, adlegantes 53v, 1, computabam
24, adsensio 5, accusare
27, adtulisse 11, comprobantis
53r, 8, exsecutos 23, composuit


[Sidenote: _Abbreviations_]

Very few abbreviated words occur in our twelve pages. Those that are
found are subject to strict rules. What is true of the twelve pages was
doubtless true of the entire manuscript, inasmuch as the sparing use
of abbreviations in conformity with certain definite rules is a
characteristic of all our oldest manuscripts.[14] The abbreviations
found in our fragment may conveniently be grouped as follows:

[Footnote 14: That is, manuscripts written before the eighth
century. The number of abbreviations increases considerably
during the eighth century. Previously the only symbols found in
calligraphic majuscule manuscripts are the “Nomina Sacra” (_deus_,
_dominus_, _Iesus_, _Christus_, _spiritus_, _sanctus_), which
constantly occur in Christian literature, and such suspensions as
are met with in our fragment. A familiar exception is the manuscript
of Gaius, preserved in the Chapter library of Verona, MS. xv (13).
This is full of abbreviations not found in contemporary manuscripts
containing purely literary or religious texts. Cf. W. Studemund,