| 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: 32, displayed: 1 – 32
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 151
Parchment · 316 pp. · 25.0 x 19.0 cm · St. Gall · 10th century / 12th century / 9th/10th century
This composite manuscript from the Monastery of St. Gall consists of three originally independent parts. It contains 1) a 10th century copy of the exegesis of the Epistles to the Romans and to the Galatians by the Church Father Augustine; 2) a 12th century copy of the Contra haeresim cuiusdam Berengarii by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury († 1079); as well as 3) a copy of the book "The Shepherd of Hermas" (Liber pastoris) by St. Hermas (2nd century A.D.), written in the second half of the 9th or the first half of the 10th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 175
Parchment · 360 pp. · 28 x 28.2 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
This is a copy, produced in St. Gall in the 9th century, of De trinitate libri XV by the Church Father Augustine. His letter to Aurelius (letter 174) serves as a preface to the work. The manuscript remains in its original binding and contains several corrections by the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV from the 11th century. On p. 365 there is a pen sketch of a man with sword and shield; an almost identical figure can also be found in Cod. Sang. 276, p. 271 (here etched with a stylus).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 180
Parchment · 242 pp. · 16-16.5 x 24-24.5 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century
Commentary on the Epistle of John by the Church Father Augustine. This copy was produced in St. Gall around the first third of the 9th century and remains in its original binding. On p. 1-4 and 239-241, it also contains readings for the liturgy.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 210
Parchment · 254 pp. · 28.7 x 19.2 cm · St. Gall · around 800
Copy of books 32 to 35 of Pope Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Hiob, written in Alemannic minuscule at the Monastery of St. Gall toward the end of the 8th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 212
Parchment · 330 pp. · 24.5 x 17 cm · St. Gall · around 800
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s homilies 13 to 22 on the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel, written at the Monastery of St. Gall toward the end of the 8th century in a „gleichmässigen, breiten, gut proportionierten kalligraphischen älteren St. Galler Minuskel“ (Bruckner) [uniform, wide, well-proportioned calligraphic older St. Gall minuscule] . The beginning of each homily is decorated with small colored initials.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 219
Parchment · 234 pp. · 22 x 15.8 cm · St. Gallen · around 850
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, carefully written by a practiced hand at the Monastery of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century. The manuscript contains a great number of glosses in Latin and Old High German made by quill and stylus.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 220
Parchment · 360 pp. · 14.2-14.3 x 19.8 · 10th century
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, written by a variety of hands in the 10th century at an unknown scriptorium, probably not in St. Gall. In the first half of the 20th century, several 5th century fragments were removed from the binding of this manuscript.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 221
Parchment · 397 pp. · 20.5 x 12.5 cm · Müstair? Burgundy? Switzerland? · 750/800
Manuscript compilation from the second half of the 8th century, written and decorated with several extraordinary initials, possibly at a “Swiss center under Burgundian or Irish influence” (Bruckner) or instead “in western Alemannia or in eastern Burgundy” (Bischoff), perhaps also in Müstair. The manuscript contains large parts of - but not in full - Pope Gregory the Great’s († 604) homilies on the Gospels (Homiliae in evangelia), as well as excerpts from authentic and inauthentic works by Augustine († 430) and Caesarius of Arles († 542).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 224
Parchment · 222 pp. · 16-16.5 x 23 cm · St. Gall (?) · first third of the 9th century
This is a copy, probably produced in St. Gall in the first third of the 9th century, of writings by Isidore of Seville (Book 2 of the Liber differentiarum) and by the Church Father Augustine (Enchiridion ad Laurentium de fide spe et caritate; parts of some chapters are missing). The manuscript remains in its original binding.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 244
Parchment · 518 pp. · 30.4 x 21.9 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
This is a careful copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books I to V of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the Monastery of St. Gall.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 245
Parchment · 518 pp. · 27.5 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books VI to X of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian Monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed by a variety of hands from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the Monastery of St. Gall. It contains multiple glosses by the hand of the monk Ekkehard IV.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 272
Parchment · 247 pp. · 11-11.5 x 18.5 cm · Tours (?) · beginning of the 9th century
This composite manuscript from the 9th century was probably produced in Tours. It contains various theological works by Alcuin of York (around 730-804): De virtutibus et vitiis; De fide sanctae et individuae trinitatis; De trinitate et ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII; De animae ratione ad Eulaliam virginem. Also included in the manuscript are the Epitaphium Alcuini (carm. 123) and Alcuin’s Carmen 112 Dum sedeas laetus (an inscription for an unknown abbey church), which has been preserved only in this manuscript. On p. 245 there is a brief historical note regarding Charlemagne’s Divisio Regnorum from 806. This note is written in the same hand as Alcuin’s Carmen 112 and contains a reference to the date of the writing: Anno dcccvi ab incarnatione domini indictione xiiii anno xxxviii regnante karolo imperatore viii idus februarii die veneris divisum est regnum illius iter filiis suis quantum unusquis post illum habet et ego alia die hoc opus perfeci. On p. 247 there is a pen trial of the antiphon Quid vobis videtur de Christo? Cuius filius est? (Hesbert, Corpus antiphonalium officii, no. 4533), the first four words of which are marked with neumes.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 273
Parchment · 238 pp. · 14-14.5 x 12-12.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · second half of the 9th century
This copy from the second half of the 9th century may have been produced in St. Gall. It contains the following works: Poetae scholastici XII (incomplete); Symphosius, Enigmata; Columbanus Versus ad Hunaldum, ad Sethum, ad Fetolium; Claudianus, Giganthomachia; Alcuin of York, De dialectica; Dialogus de rhetorica et de virtutibus (with diagrams on pp. 224-236).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 274
Parchment · 66 pp. · 19-19.5 x 25-26 cm · St. Gall (?) · middle of the 9th century
In this manuscript, the pseudo-Augustinian work Categoriae decem ex Aristotele decerptae bears the title Cathegoriae Aristotelis ab Augustino translatae ad filium suum Adeodatum. It is preceded by a fragment from Book 1 of the Periphyseon by Johannes Scottus Eriugena (about Categories) and by verses by Alcuin of York to Charlemagne. This copy of uncertain origin from the middle of the 9th century from the beginning was laid out to be glossed; the wide central column of text is surrounded by marginal glosses as well as several interlinear glosses.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 275
Parchment · 302 pp. · 23.5 x 32 cm · West Franconian empire (Tours?) · first third of the 9th century
This copy of a commentary on the Gospel of John by Alcuin of York (about 730-804) was produced in the first third of the 9th century, probably in the West Franconian empire, possibly in Tours. The flyleaf shows traces of a page from Vergilius Sangallensis (Cod. Sang. 1394).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 276
Parchment · 280 pp. · 17.2-18.2 x 24-24.5 cm · southern region of Germany (?) · second half and middle of the 9th century
The manuscript consists of two codices bound together (p. 1-149 and 150-279). The first part dates from the second half of the 9th century, the second from the middle of the 9th century. The volume was privately owned by the St. Gall Abbot Grimald (841-872); however, it was probably written not in St. Gall, but at least in part at a scriptorium in the southern region of Germany. It contains various works by Alcuin of York (about 730-804): De fide sanctae et individuae trinitatis; De trinitate et ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII; De animae ratione ad Eulaliam virginem; Dialogus de rhetorica et de virtutibus (with diagrams p. 210-217); De Dialectica (with diagram p. 270). The codex further contains excerpts (chapters 2-11) from De perfectione iustitiae hominis by the Church Father Augustine (in the codex under the titel Adnotatio interrogationum caelesti pelagiani et responsionum sancti augustini). On p. 148 there is a 13th century pen trial of the alleluia Conversus Iesus ad mariam dixit ei fides tua te salvum fecit vade in pace (with neumes); on p. 218 (11th/12th century) the antiphon Conspicit in celis mens prudens Ezechielis (with neumes) as well as the responsorium Martir sancta dei quae flagrans igne fidei (without neumes). On p. 271 there is the figure of a man with sword and shield etched with a stylus; an almost identical figure can be found in Cod. Sang. 175, p. 356 (there as a pen sketch).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 278
Parchment · 514 pp. · 25.6 x 19 cm · St. Gallen · 850/880
This is an unadorned copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the De ecclesiasticis officiis libri IV (also referred to as Liber officialis) by liturgist and Archbishop Amalarius of Metz († around 850); it was written at the Monastery of St. Gall around 820, probably under Deputy-Abbot and Abbot Hartmut (872-883). Between book 3 and book 4, inserted on pages 349 to 361, the manuscript contains five letters by Amalarius of Metz to various addressees.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 292
Parchment · 210 pp. · 11.6 x 15.2 cm · St. Gall (?) · part 1: 11th century and part 2: 11th or 12th century
The manuscript consists of two codices bound together (part 1: pp. 1-198; part 2: pp. 199-210), written by several hands. At least the first, older part was probably produced in St. Gall. It contains various various glossaries (Latin-Latin as well as Latin-Old High German) of the Bible, of hagiographic texts (Abdias, Historica Apostolica; Sulpicius Severus, Vita S. Martini), grammatical works (Priscian, Institutio de arte grammatica; Donat, Ars grammatica), and writings by Christian authors (Prudentius; Sedulius; Sedulius Scottus, De greca), furthermore glossaries of herbs, a medical paper, and an incomplete astronomical treatise.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 299
Parchment · 336 pp. · 22.6 x 16 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Compilation of various types of glossaries: Biblical glossaries, glossaries of texts by Church Fathers (such as the Letter of Jerome to Marcella or Pope Gregory the Great’s homilies on the Gospels). A Latin word from the respective text is followed by a Latin explanation or by a vernacular (Alemannic) translation. The manuscript also contains glossaries of technical terms (such as of the canons, of birds, fish, medicine, kinship terms). These glossaries, which were compiled by several monks from the monastery of St. Gall in the second half of the 9th century, are among the oldest records of the German language. The majority of the parchment pages in the first half of the manuscript are damaged at the top edge.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 343
Parchment · 780 pp. · 28 x 18.7-19.2 cm · St. Gall · 11th century and 14th century
This plenary missal, produced in St. Gall, which contains all chants and prayers of the Mass, consists of the following parts, written partly in the 11th and partly in the 14th century: liturgical calendar; sequences (without melodies); gradual; Masses (with prayers, readings, and chants for the Proper of the Mass); Canon of the Mass; sacramentary; lectionary. On p. 232 (opposite the Te igitur), there is a full-page picture of the crucifixion with two kneeling monks.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 363
Paper · 335 pp. · 30.5 x 21.5 cm · Dominican Cloister of St. Gall (Elisabeth Muntprat) · 1483
German language lectionary with the Epistles and Gospel readings according to the Church year (Proprium de tempore; Proprium de sanctis and Commune sanctorum) from the Dominican Cloister of St. Katharina in St. Gall, copied in the year 1483 from a model belonging to the Cloister of St. Katherine in Nurnberg by Elisabeth Muntprat, one of the convent’s most diligent scribes. Texts from the manuscript were read aloud during the Dominican nuns’ meals. Several colored woodcuts are pasted into the manuscript, which came to the Abbey Library of St. Gall around 1780.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 403
Parchment · 638 pp. · 24 x 13.8 cm · Disentis Monastery · 1150/1200
This is a collection of liturgical works from the Monastery of Disentis, written in the second half of the 12th century, most likely around 1200. In sequence, the volume contains a calendar (pp. 2-13), a psalter (pp. 15-90) and a hymnary (pp. 91-110), a (mixed) capitulary and collectarium (pp. 116-186), as well as an antiphonary, a lectionary, and a homiliary (pp. 203-638). Highlights from the point of view of manuscript decoration include the initial “B” at the beginning of the psalter (p. 15) and a picture of the crucifixion (p. 89). This breviary is one of the very few surviving medieval manuscripts from the Monastery of Disentis. The manuscript came to Kempten around 1300; as early as the 15th century, the Disentis Breviary was held in the Abbey Library of St. Gall.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 422
Parchment · 248 pp. · 26.8 x 18 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Lectionary and homilary for the period from Pentecost to the last Sunday after Pentecost, meticulously written by a variety of hands at the Monastery of St. Gall in the first half of the 9th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 437
Parchment · 295 (296) pp. · 37 x 25.5 cm · Ittingen · first half of the 13th century
This codex, written in the 13th century, contains a lectionary for Matins for the saints’ days and an antiphonary for the entire liturgical year. The antiphonary bears the title In nomine domini incipiunt antiphone secundum morem Marbacensis ecclesie. Nevertheless, this is probably not a manuscript from the reformed monastery of Marbach in Alsace. Based on the offices, which indicate a connection with St. Gall, it must rather be assumed that the manuscript originated in the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Lawrence in Ittingen, which belonged to the monastery of St. Gall, but which followed the Consuetudines of Marbach. The fly leaf (p. 2/1) contains a large part of the Office of St. Gallus, probably from a manuscript from the 10th/11th century. Readings as well as chants (the latter ones with neumes) are recorded. The order of the responses and antiphons does not match that of the Hartker antiphonary, Cod. Sang. 391.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 448
Parchment · 232 pp. · 31 x 21 cm · St. Gall · around 1432 / after 1446
Liber Ordinarius from the second quarter of the 15th century with liturgical instructions for the mass of the monks of St. Gall during the presence of reformist monks from the Monastery of Hersfeld between 1430 and 1439. The Liber Ordinarius, dated 1432 (p. 36), seems to have been made for the Monastery of St. Gall following a model from Hersfeld (in the northeast of Hesse); however, some parts are not yet adapted for the Monastery of St. Gall. The calendar at the beginning of the manuscript can be unambiguously located in St. Gall. Between the various parts of the manuscript, repeatedly there are empty pages.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 609
Paper · 441 pp. · 32/33 x 22 cm · middle of the 16th century
This composite manuscript from the estate of the humanist Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus consists of 12 individual sets of papers, purchased by the Monastery of St. Gall in 1768 and bound in the years thereafter. This volume, mostly written by Tschudi himself, contains, among others, lists of bishops and other important office holders in the dioceses of Konstanz, Strasbourg, Basel and Chur; documents concerning the history of the Monasteries of St. Gall, Einsiedeln, Muri, Pfäfers, Engelberg and their abbots; a German copy of the vita of St. Meinrad; copies of documents of several southern German monasteries; and – the most important text – the only surviving copy of excerpts from the "Reichsgutsurbar" of Churrätien from the first half of the 9th century. The original did not survive; it was no longer available at the time of Tschudi, who instead copied an incomplete version from the 10th to 12th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 635
Parchment · 243 ff. · 23 x 14/14.5 cm · Northern Italy · around 800
This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the Historia Longobardorum (History of the Langobards) by the Langobard monk and author Paulus Diaconus († 797/799), who was active in Montecassino. It was written in northern Italy, possibly in Verona, around 800 by a variety of hands. The volume has been at the Monastery of St. Gall since the 9th century already.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 681
Parchment · 228 pp. · 18 x 12.5 cm · Middle Rhine / Main-Franconia / Hesse in part perhaps Lorsch · 2nd-3rd quarter of the 11th century
This manuscript, written in the area of the Middle Rhine/Main-Franconia/Hesse in the 2nd-3rd quarter of the 11th century, preserves mainly theological tracts by Florus of Lyon, Paschasius Radbertus and Heriger of Lobbes, but also contains interlinear glosses, detailed marginalia and an added Epistula de vulture. In 1768 the manuscript came to the Abbey Library of St. Gall as part of the estate of Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711
Parchment · 240 pp. · 29 x 20.5 cm · Engelberg · second half of the 12th century
This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 12th century preserves the Abbreviatio Decreti „Quoniam egestas“, an abridged version of the Decretum Gratiani, complete with glosses. The text represents the oldest datable record of the study of the Decretum Gratiani in France. The script and book decoration indicate that the manuscript probably was produced in Engelberg during the time of Frowin. Since 1461, it has been at the Monastery of St. Gall.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 775
Paper · 266 pp. · 22 x 15.5 cm · 14th century (8/28/1374)
This manuscript of predominantly scholastic texts from the area of the University of Paris is bound in a well-preserved original Kopert (limp vellum) binding. Among others it contains an alphabetical register of the Sentences of Peter Lombard; the 14th century library catalog of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in Lower Austria, preserved only in this manuscript (pp. 107-112); the work Quaestiones parvorum librorum naturalium by the French philosopher and logician Jean Buridan (Johannes Buridanus; † shortly after 1358), completed in August 1374 and correspondent to Aristotle’s writings (Parva naturalia) (pp. 121-253); as well as the text Collectio errorum in Anglia et Parisiis condemnatorum (pp. 254-264).
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. 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.