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The entry is found in the upper margin of fol. 51r and doubtless represents a probatio pennae on the part of a notary.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)

Moreover, if the probatio pennae on fol.53r is Carolingian,17 it would appear that the book had been in France at the beginning as well as at the end of the Middle Ages.

From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)

It may, however, be a typographical error, or a lapsus pennae on the part of Marx.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various

Elementärunterricht und probationes pennae in der ersten Hälfte des Mittelalters, in Mittelalterliche Studien I, 1966, pp. 74-87.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

Belua puniceo mixtos cum sanguine fluctus Ore vomit; maduere graves adspergine pennae.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund