Manuscript Summary: Winter portion of a large-format antiphonary in two volumes (summer portion in Cod. Sang. 1760) for the Liturgy of the Hours of the monks of St. Gall, written around 1770 by the St. Gall monk Martin ab Yberg (1741−1777) and richly illustrated with small watercolor paintings surrounded by flowery rococo frames by Father Notker Grögle (1740−1816). This volume, decorated with especially splendid baroque brass fittings, contains the chants of the monks of St. Gall for the feasts of Jesus Christ and of the saints between the first Sunday of Advent and the Feast of the Ascension. It is divided into the parts Proprium de tempore (pp. 1−357), Proprium sanctorum (pp. 358−500) and Commune sanctorum (pp. 501−559). These are followed by suffrages and by antiphons and responsories for workdays (pp. 560−616). Chants for the feast days of the Archangel Gabriel and of St. Scholastica are added (pp. 617−626). The melodies are written in Gothic German plainsong notation (“Hufnagelnotation”) on five lines. This volume came to the Abbey Library from the choir library of St. Gallen Cathedral in 1930. (smu)
Standard description:
Scarpatetti Beat Matthias von, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Codices 1726-1984 (14.-19. Jahrhundert), Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen 1983, S. 29-30. Show standard description
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1759
Paper · 628 pp. · 51 x 36 cm · St. Gall Abbey (F. Martin ab Yberg; F. Notker Grögle) · around 1770
Antiphonarium officii for the St. Gall Abbey Church, winter portion
How to quote:
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1759, p. 607 + p. 608 – Antiphonarium officii for the St. Gall Abbey Church, winter portion (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/1759)
