| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| Germany | Überlingen, Leopold-Sophien-Bibliothek | 1 |
| Austria | St. Paul in Kärnten, Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal | 1 |
| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| France | Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France | 1 |
| United States of America | Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art | 1 |
| Russia | St. Petersburg, National Library of Russia | 1 |
Number of manuscripts: 981, displayed: 881 – 900
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 983
Paper · 367 pp. · 3.2 x 2.27 cm. · St. Gall, St. Leonard (?) · 1464
At the time this work, Die 24 Alten, which was completed in 1386, was written, the Franciscan Otto von Passau was a member of the Minorite cloister in Basel. This piece, a sort of guide to Christian life, was widely used in women's cloisters for reading aloud during meals. This manuscript was written by a swester Endlin, probably at the Franciscan nuns' cloister of St. Leonard in St. Gall.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 985
Paper · 507 pp. · 27.8 x 20.2 cm · most likely Freiburg i. Br. · 1467
This manuscript from 1467, which first belonged to the Claretian cloister at Freiburg in Breisgau and was transported to the Abbey of St. Gall in 1699, contains, in addition to some Latin texts, many tracts for spiritual instruction in German translation. These include an Ars moriendi, the Cordiale de quattuor novissimis by Gerard van Vliederhoven, the so-called Hieronymus-Briefe(Letters of Jerome) translated by John of Neumark (ca. 1315-1356), the Spiegelbuch, a dialogical text in rhymed verses on living life properly, the trials of worldly life and everyday tribulations, with about twenty colored pen sketches, and a version of the legend of the Three Kings by John of Hildesheim (1310/1320-1375). The manuscript also contains some additional pen sketches: a unicorn (p. 87), images representing two Apostles (p. 107; Paul and John?), a man and a woman in secular dress, and a stag and a wild boar (p. 513). There are transferred traces of text in Carolingian minuscule on front and rear inside covers (rear inside cover: Hrabanus Maurus, De computo).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1084
Paper · 338 pp. · 28-28.5 x 20.5-21 cm · Heidelberg · 15th century
St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch's (1462-1491) book of heraldry, containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity and the clergy, mostly from the southern region of Germany. This heraldic book was probably prepared in the Heidelberg workshop of Hans Ingeram for an unknown customer from the area between the Neckar River and the Upper Rhine. In the 1480s St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch purchased the volume and had numerous coats of arms from Swiss and German border areas added in the back pages; these were drawn by Winterthur artist Hans Haggenberg. One of the most important heraldic record books of the 15th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1085
Paper · 554 pp. · 31-31.5 x 20.5-21 cm · between 1530 and 1572
Book of heraldry by the universal scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus produced sometime between 1530 and 1572. It contains more than 2,000 coats of arms of the aristocratic families of the old Swiss Confederacy. Many of the coats of arms include genealogical explanations in Tschudi's hand.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1093
Parchment · 1 f. · 419.5 x 11.5 cm · end of the 14th century
This manuscript has the form of a parchment scroll; it consists of six narrow strips of parchment, each about 60-80 cm long, sewn together lengthwise. It is a pilgrims’ guide through the city of Rome und consists of two texts: mostly in the form of a list, the Mirabilia Romae describe the structures of the city of Rome – walls, temples, palaces, squares, thermal baths, theaters, etc. In this version, this part begins with a short historical introduction from the Chronicle of Martin of Opava. It is followed by the Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae as a second part, an enumeration of the churches of Rome with their relics and the indulgences to be obtained there.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1103
Paper · 275 pp. · 30 x 20 cm · Paris · 1568-1569
A study notebook used by the St. Gall monk Mauritius Enk († 1575) containing notes on lectures given by the Jesuit Jacobus Valentinus (also known as Jacobus de Borrasa; † 1581) on Aristotle's De physica, De caelo et mundo, Tractatus de elementis, De ortu et interitu and De anima, written in 1568/69 while Enk was a student at the Jesuit-run Collège de Clermont in Paris.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1117
Paper · 500 pp. · 20 x 15 cm · Paris, Jesuit College de Clermont · 1565-1569
Transcriptions, prepared by Mauritius Enk (1538-1575) of the Abbey of St. Gall and an unknown fellow student, of lectures presented by the Spanish Jesuit Johannes Maldonatus (Juan Maldonado, professor of philosophy from 1564 to 1565 and of theology from 1565 to 1569 at the College de Clermont) and Jacobus Valentinus (Jacques Valentin, professor of theology at the College de Clermont from 1565 to 1569). In addition to an introduction to theology, the lecture notes include a commentary on Aristotle by Jacques Valentin (Annotationes in libros Ethicorum) and other material. The volume has a Parisian calfskin binding bearing an owner's mark (E + F = ex-libris) embossed in gold.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1123
Paper · 155 ff. · 23 x 17 cm · Paris, Jesuit College de Clermont · 1566
Lecture notes transcribed by Mauritius Enk (1538-1575) of the Abbey of St. Gall from lectures by the Spanish Jesuit Jacobus Valentinus (professor of theology at the College de Clermont 1565-1569) on Aristotle's Ethics.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1131
Paper · 355 ff. · 23 x 17 cm · Paris, Jesuit College de Cleremont · 1566-1567
Transcription made by Joachim Opser († 1594, St. Galler monastic community member, Abbot beginning in 1577) of lectures presented by the Spanish Jesuit Jacobus Valentinus (professor of theology at the College de Clermont 1565-1569) on the writings of Aristotle gathered together as the Organon.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1132
Paper · 128 + 138 + 320 pp. · 22 x 16.5 cm · Paris, Jesuit College de Clermont · 1569
Lecture note transcriptions made, not as earlier thought, by Joachim Opser, but rather by St. Gall monastic community member Mauritius Enk (1538-1575) and by unknown fellow students. In addition to commentaries on Aristotle by the Spanish Jesuit Johannes Maldonatus (Juan Maldonado, professor of philosophy 1564-1565 and of philosophy 1565-1569 at the College de Clermont) and Jacobus Valentinus (Jaques Valentin, professor of theology at the College de Clermont 1565-1569) as well as additional lectures by the Scottish Jesuit Jacobus Tyrius (professor of theology and philosophy at the College of Clermont) and other texts about arithmetic and geometry, some of them anonymous.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1140
Paper · 717 pp. · 20.4 x 14 cm · Cistercian nuns’ cloister Günterstal · second third of the 15th century
This is a liturgical manuscript from the Cistercian nuns’ cloister Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau, written partly in Latin and partly in German. The manuscript was bought in the year 1782 by the St. Gall monk Gall Metzler (1743-1820), parish priest in Ebringen near Freiburg, which was owned by St. Gall. Among other texts, the manuscript contains readings from a martyrology and from the Rule of Saint Benedict for the months of September and October; pericopes from the Epistles and from the Gospels for Sundays and saints’ days in September; legends of the saints according to the Alsatian Legenda Aurea for the month of September; German language texts from the Old Testament books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther as well as version B2 of the Dekalogerklärung by Marquard of Lindau. Together with Cod. Sang. 1141 and Cod. Sang. 1142, as well as probably six more now lost volumes, this manuscript was part of a large Günterstal lectionary, containing sermons as well as martyrological and liturgical texts. Here and there throughout the volume, a prior loss of pages can be noted (e.g. between p. 350 and p. 351); between the various parts, there frequently are blank pages.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1311
Paper · 370 pp. · 13 x 19.5 cm · between 1669 and 1682
The travel diary ("Reisebuch") of Alsatian world traveler Georg Franz Müller (1646-1723). Müller was employed by the East India-Holland Company between 1669 and 1682 as a soldier in the Indonesian archipelago. In the "Reisebuch" he sketched people, animals and plants that he encountered during his voyage (via South Africa) to Indonesia and his travels in Indonesia. He also composed simple, sometimes rough verses, about all these people, animals and plants, and wrote them out in his idiosyncratic, difficult to read script.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1394
Parchment · 200 pp. · St. Gall · 4th-15th centuries
Collected Fragments Volume I from the Abbey Library of St. Gall ("Veterum Fragmentorum manuscriptis codicibus detractorum collectio tomus primus"). The volume contains, among many varied single pages and fragmentary texts, fragments from the Aeneid and the Georgics by Vergil from the late 4th century which are significant to textual history (11 pages and 8 small strips), 17 smaller and larger bits of text from a pre-Vulgate Vetus-Latina version of the Gospels from the early 5th century, fragments of a copy of the comedies of Terence from the 10th century, documents from the 9th through 15th centuries, small fragments in Hebrew script, and the "St. Galler Glauben und Beichte II" (formulas for shrift or confession, together with professions of faith from the 11th century). Pater Ildefons von Arx (1755-1833) assembled this composite volume in the year 1822 and dedicated it to his former supervisor, Abbey Librarian Pater Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756-1823).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1395
Parchment · 473 pp. · 24 x 18,5-19 cm · northern Italy (Verona?) · 5th-10th centuries
Collected Fragments Volume II from the Abbey Library of St. Gall ("Veterum Fragmentorum manuscriptis codicibus detractorum collectio tomus II"). Among other texts, this volume contains 110 smaller and larger single leaves from the oldest Vulgate version of the Gospels, produced in northern Italy (Verona?) in about 410/420, fragments of Psalm manuscripts in Latin and in Greek from the 7th and the 10th centuries respectively, and a large number of Irish fragments from the Abbey Library dating from the 7th through the 9th century, including a picture portraying Matthew the Evangelist with his emblems (p. 418), a full-page decorated cross (p. 422) and a "Peccavimus" decorative initial (p. 426).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1400
Paper · 602 pp. · 32.5-33 x 20 cm · St. Gall · 1755/59
The best critical manuscript register of the 18th century: the St. Gall Manuscript Catalog of librarian Pater Pius Kolb (1712-1762) in two volumes (together with Cod. Sang. 1401) from the years 1755/59. The front matter of this first volume consists of an account by Pius Kolb of his work with manuscripts and the first detailed account of the history of the Abbey Library of St. Gall. The manuscripts are ordered by subject area; this first volume contains individual manuscript listings, together with critical commentaries, for the Bibles, the Bible commentaries, the works of the church fathers, the works written by St. Gall authors, the Council records as well as the Rules of the Order and commentaries upon those Rules. In the back of the volume is a manuscript concordance indicating the previous and the new library signatures for each volume. This catalog was produced in conjunction with the application of a new library signature scheme to the manuscript collection.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1401
Paper · 541 pp. · 32.5-33 x 20 cm · St. Gall · 1755/59
The second volume of the best critical manuscript register of the 18th century: the St. Gall Manuscript Catalog of librarian Pater Pius Kolb (1712-1762) in two volumes (together with Cod. Sang. 1400) from the years 1755/59. In this second volume Kolb describes and evaluates the liturgical, historical and hagiographic manuscripts, the legal, theological and philosophical manuscripts, and also the texts concerning medicine, sciences, rhetoric, poetics, and grammar. Following the evaluative portion are an alphabetical listing by author and an incomplete index indicating the pages on which information about the individual codices can be found.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1878
Paper · 2 + 482 + 2 pp. · 19,5/20 x 13,5 cm · St. Katharinental near Diessenhofen (?) · about 1400
A copy of the so-called Engelberger Predigten. Homilies in German for a variety of occasions during the church year, written in about 1400 in a Dominican cloister, possibly at St. Katharinental near Diessenhofen, where the manuscript was held for several centuries.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1916
Paper · II + 760 pp. · 21.5/22 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · 1483
An important copy, in terms of textual history, of the Reformatio Prediger Ordens by the Dominican Johannes Meyer (1422-1482) of Basel. This copy originated in the Dominican cloister of St. Katharina in St. Gall, written in 1483 by Sister Elisabeth Muntprat (1459-1531). This work, which was copied from a model belonging to the cloister of St. Katherine in Nurnberg, is a valuable source for the history of the Dominican order in the German speaking world.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1919
Paper · 632 pp. · 21 x 14 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · second half of the 15th century (before 1498)
A collection of religious writings from the Dominican cloister of St. Katherina in St. Gall, written in the second half of the 15th century by the hand of an experienced woman scribe. The volume transmits a great number of sermon texts in versions important to textual history. It contains, among other things, seven so-called Engelberger Predigten, the oldest copy of Version B of the work De Nabuchodonosor by Marquard of Lindau († 1392), ten sermons by Johannes Tauler († 1361), an account of the life, works, and miracles of St. Dominic taken from the work Der Heiligen Leben, a tract attributed to Meister Eckhart: Vom klösterlichen Leben, and religious epigrams.
St. Paul in Kärnten, Stiftsbibliothek St. Paul im Lavanttal, 30-1
Parchment · 165 ff. · 20.5 x 15 cm · Engelberg · 1143-1178
This Engelberg codex, currently held in Carinthia, typifies the painstaking yet unostentatious method of manuscript production practiced under Abbot Frowin (1143-1178), to whom the volume is dedicated on 1r. At the beginnings of the primary texts are indications for planned initials (1v, 103v), or completed initials in red and black ink (2r), with incipits in red ink. Otherwise there is little book decoration other than a few decorative capitals (including the one at the beginning of the last text on 145r). The artful application of patches to damaged sections of the parchment, typical for Engelberg, is also evident (18, 59, 62, 141, 154).