| 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: 468, displayed: 421 – 440
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 863
Parchment · 270 pp. · 22.5 x 16.3 cm · Reichenau (possibly) · second quarter of the 11th century
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan, 39-65 AD), "De bello civili" (also known as the "Pharsalia"). Epic poem on the civil war between Pompey and Caesar (48 - 45 BC).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 864
Parchment · 406 pp. · 21-22.5 x 13-14.5 cm · 11th, 12th centuries
This codex consists of four independently produced parts, probably not written in St. Gall: 1. Horace, Odae (incomplete at the end, with some glosses); 2. Lucan, Pharsalia (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed; 3. Sallust, De coniuratione Catilinae (complete) and De bello Iugurthino (with some chapters missing); 4. Ovid, Amores (incomplete at the end, heavily glossed) and a page from the Metamorphoseon.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 868
Parchment · 205 (206) pp. · 14.5 x 10.5 cm; 9.5 x 7.5 cm; 14.5 x 12 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
An anonymous commentary, written in tiny script (up to 110 lines on pages only 14.5 cm in height) on the odes, epodes, Ars poetica, letters, and sermons of Horace. This is preceded by lives of Horace by Ps.-Acro and Sueton as well as, on the very first pages, a letter of exchange from 1252 and other documents. The pages at the end contain a commentary on the Satires of Persius, of which the first part is in poor condition.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 869
Parchment · 260 ff. · 16.5 x 13 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
A highly important poetry manuscript containing the works of the Reichenau scholar and abbot Walahfrid Strabo (809/10-849). In addition to a wealth of short poems of both a spiritual and a worldly nature, the volume also includes verse legends about both the Cappadocian martyr Mammes (De vita et fine Mammae monachi) and the Irish abbot Blaithmaic (Versus Strabi de beati Blaithmaic vita et fine), the Dream-vision of Reichenau monk Wetti (Visio Wettini) and the poem De imagine Tetrici, a discussion of the now lost statue of Theoderich the Great on horseback, which Charlemagne had moved from Ravenna to his palace in Aachen. The manuscript was produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 870
Parchment · 326 pp. · 17.5 x 13.5 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Commentary notes (most of them explanations written for use in teaching) about the 16 Satires of the Roman poet Juvenal (about 60-140), preceded by 460 verses in hexameter (most of them from the Satires) and a mixed glossary from the Satires of Juvenal. The St. Gall copy was made in the second half of the 9th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 872
Parchment · II + 412 pp. · 24 x 17 cm · St. Gall · 11th-13th centuries
Notker the German, Old High German translation and commentary on "De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii" of Martianus Capella; two commentaries on the gospels from the 12th and 13th century; a translation from Latin into Old High German plus commentary on the first two books of Martianus Capella's († 439) work "The Marriage of Philology and Mercury" by the St. Gallen monk Notker the German written in the 11th century. The two commentaries on the gospels date from the 12th and 13th centuries. The Martianus Capella part is a palimpsest, for the most part written over an older, barely legible text of the "Institutiones Grammaticae" of Priscianus of Caesarea.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 876
Parchment · 525 pp. · 22.5-23.5 x 15 cm · St. Gall · about 800
Manuscript compilation consisting mainly of grammatical texts, written in a variety of hands in about 800 in the monastery of St. Gall. Some of the texts in this codex are the oldest extant versions, and the text of the anonymous treatise De scansione heroyci versus et specie eorum is the only known surviving version in the world. Grammars include the Ars major and Ars minor by Donatus, a complilation of the two Donatus grammars by Peter of Pisa, the work De metris des Mallius Theodorus, the Ars grammatica by Diomedes, and both De arte metrica and De schematibus et tropis by the Venerable Bede.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 877
Parchment · 470 pp. · 23 x 14 cm · various origins · 9th century
Manuscript compilation from the St. Gallen scriptorum, dating from around 800 and containing numerous grammatical treatises.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 878
Parchment · 304 pp. · 21.5 x 13.5 cm · Reichenau · between about 825 and 849
The Vademecum (personal handbook) of Walahfrid Strabo (ca. 808-849), Abbot of Reichenau. It is one of the few known autographs of a prominent figure to survive from the early Middle Ages. It contains diverse texts and images by numerous hands, written between ca. 825 and 849, among them a labyrinth (on page 277) and different alphabets (pages 320/321), one in runes.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 879
Parchment · 44 ff. · 19.5 x 13.5-14 cm · France · about 900
Excerpts from the works of Isidore of Seville, from the Etymologiae and the work De officiis, written in about 900, not at the Abbey of St. Gall, possibly in France. At the end is a scribe's verse in which the scribe calls himself Aurelianus.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 882
Parchment · 198 pp. · 21-21.5 x 14.5-15 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Manuscript compilation with mostly grammatical content, produced during the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. It contains, among other items, copies of the Ars maior by Donatus, the Ars grammatica by Honoratus, the work Ars de verbo by Eutyches, the Ars grammatica by Diomedes, and Book I of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 898
Parchment · 110 pp. · 21.5 x 16 cm · Reichenau · second third of the 11th century
Manuscript compilation containing the works of Abbot Bernard of Reichenau (about 978- 1048; Abbot 1008-1048): a fragmentary copy of a long dedicatory codex, delivered by Bernard to King Heinrich III on the occasion of the Synod of Konstanz in the year 1043. Also contains the Epistola de tonis (on psalmodic musical tones), sermons for the high holy days of the Church year, sermons about St. Mark, the patron saint of Reichenau, hymns, sequences dedicated to Saints Ulrich, Gereon, and Willibrord, the holy office devoted to St. Ulrich, and a large collection of letters. Many of the works in this manuscript are the sole surviving exemplars from the second third of the 11th century.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 899
Parchment · 144 pp. · 22 x 16-16.5 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century and 10th century
A significant poetry manuscript from the second half of the 9th as well as the 10th century, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall. Among other items it contains copies of the poem Mosella by Ausonius which recounts a trip on the Rhine and Mosel rivers, a poem in hexameter by Walahfrid Strabo on the life and death of the Irish saint Blaithmaic (Versus Strabi de beati Blaithmaic vita et fine) and the work De ieiunio quattuor temporum (the so-called Calixtus Letter).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 902
Parchment · 186 pp. · 32 x 25 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century and second half of the 9th century
School manuscript for the St. Gallen monastery school, containing the Greek grammar by Dositheus and a prose version of Aratos of Soloi's didactic poem "Phainomena" which is illustrated with a pen drawing.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 903
Parchment · 350 pp. · 33 x 22 cm · probably northern Italy (Verona?) · about 800
A copy of the 16 books of the Grammar of Priscian of Caesarea (Priscianus maior), written in Carolingian minuscule at the turn of the 8th to the 9th century, probably in northern Italy (Verona?). The manuscript came into the possession of the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century under Abbot Grimald.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 904
Parchment · II + 120 ff. · 39 x 28.5 cm · Ireland (Bangor?, Nendrum?) · 851
The Irish Priscian manuscript of St. Gallen: a copy of the Latin "Institutiones Grammaticae" by the grammarian Priscian of Caesarea (6th century) with over 9000 glosses, among them 3478 in the Old Irish language. The basis for the reconstruction of the Old Irish language. Contains numerous elaborate pen initials. Written in an Irish scriptorium (Bangor?, Nendrum?) around 845.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 905
Parchment · 1070 pp. · 37.5 x 30 cm · about 900
The Vocabularium of Salomon, a 1070-page long alphabetical encyclopedia from the Carolingian period, written in a variety of hands in about 900, probably not in the monastery of St. Gall. The work has not survived in its complete form (entries beginning with Aa through Ab and Y and Z are missing). Generally attributed by the Abbey of St. Gall's internal historiography to the learned Abbot Salomon (890-920), the work is probably based on a Liber Glossarum from the French Abbey of Corbie.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 907
Parchment · 320 pp. · 25 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 760-780
Manuscript compilation for the monastery school of St. Gallen, written by the monk Winithar.
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 908
Parchment · 412 pp. · 20.5 x 13.5 cm · second half of the 8th century (upper script) and 6th-7th centuries (lower script)
"The king of palimpsests": parchment fragments from late antiquity that were erased and reused at a later time, sometimes more than once. The scholarly significance of the palimpsests normally lies in the older texts. Some works have only been preserved as palimpsests. This volume, compiled by the librarian Ildefonse of Arx before and after 1800 from single fragments found in the abbey library, contains among many other texts the oldest known copy of the "Mulomedicina" of Vegetius (5th century), the only known poems and prose by Flavius Merobaudes (5th century) and the so-called "St. Gallen oracles", or "Sortes Sangallenses" (6th century).
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 911
Parchment · 323 pp. · 17 x 10.5 cm · about 790
The oldest book in the German language, the so-called "Abrogans" manuscript from around 790, containing the earliest German translation of the Lord's Prayer and Credo.