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Dry-point glossing in OIr is reported from several MSS, but to date no comprehensive overview of the extent or status of dry-point glossing in Celtic literacy is available and a direct connection between Celtic and OE dry-point glossing practices cannot be discerned. Ó Cróinín (1999: 94) edits dry-point glosses from Paris, Bibliothèque nationale lat. 9382Paris, Bibliothèque nationalelat. 9382 (CLA 5: 577), 7 of which “may be Irish”. Ó Néill’s edition (1998, 2000) of the dry-point glosses in the so-called “Codex Usserianus Primus” – Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 55Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 55, an early 7^th-c. gospel book – lists 3 OIr glosses, 120 L. dry-point glosses and 14 other dry-point symbols.

Ó Néill (1998: 2) also mentions three further MSS that supposedly feature dry-point glossing in OIr, namely Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS F. iv. 24, f. 93Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS F. iv. 24, f. 93 (CLA 4: 457), St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 904St. Gallen, StiftsbibliothekMS 904 and Oxford, Bodleian Library Auctarium F. 3. 15,Oxford, Bodleian LibraryAuctarium F. 3. 15 but I have not been able to find printed editions of the (potentially OIr) dry-point material of those MSS. Such unverified reports have to be treated with great caution; in the case of the Turin MS, for instance, CLA (4: 457) suggests that the dry-point material is L. rather than OIr.

The glosses in the Codex Usserianus Primus are dated to the 7^th c. by Bischoff (1954: 197) and, according to Ó Néill (1998: 26, n. 24), the glosses in the Oxford MS date to the second quarter of the 12^th century. Therefore, Ó Néill sees these two MS witnesses as evidence that there might be an unbroken tradition of dry-point gloss activities spanning five centuries, which leads him to the conclusion “that other Irish witnesses to dry-point glossing remain to be identified” (1998: 2).Old Slavonic dry-point glosses