St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek
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Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 2
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 2
Parchment · 568 pp. · 25 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 760-780
A Winithar manuscript dating from the early period of the Abbey of St. Gall, containing books of the Old and New Testament.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 6
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 6
Parchment · 230 pp. · 25 x 18 cm · St. Gall · last quarter of the 8th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Abbot Werdo (784-812), containing books of the Old Testament.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 7
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 7
Parchment · 460 pp. · 23.5 x 17 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 8
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 8
Parchment · 52 pp. · 10.7-11.8 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
A somewhat carelessly made copy of the Old Testament book of Tobit, written around the end of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall and probably used later for teaching in the school.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 10
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 10
Parchment · 477 pp. · 14.5-14.9 x 18.2 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Copies of various Old Testament books: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, Wisdom, Sirach, written by a single hand during the 10th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. On the first empty page is a 16-hexameter complaint in verse by an Irish monk (Dubduin?) about his unfriendly reception at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 11
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 11
Parchment · 536 pp. · 22 x 13 cm · St. Gall · 760-780 and last quarter of the 8th century
A Winithar manuscript containing excerpts from books of the Old and New Testament.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 12
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 12
Parchment · 346 pp. · 23.5 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 10th century and last quarter of the 8th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Abbots Waldo (782-784) and Werdo (784-812) containing books of the Old Testament. A more recent part containing the books of Proverbs and Job dates from the first third of the 10th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 14
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 14
Parchment · 340 pp. · 31.5 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century
Books of the Old Testament, dating from the first third of the 9th century, containing annotation in the hand of Notker Balbulus († 912).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 15
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 15
Parchment · 286 pp. · 2° · France, Northern (probably) · second half of the 9th century
Psalter, produced in the second half of the 9th century, possibly in northern France. Following the Psalms, which were heavily annotated with commentaries in later centuries (mainly the 14th and 15th centuries), the Psalter is followed by the Canticles as well as a fragment of a Litany of the Saints not produced at St. Gallen. The beautifully illuminated initial capital of the first Psalm (Beatus vir) on page 5 is strongly influenced by Irish models.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 17
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 17
Parchment · 342 pp. · 24 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall · 880-900
A copy of the Gospel of Matthew made in St. Gall in the 9th century, together with the beginning of a copy of the Gospel of Mark. The second half contains a Greek-Latin copy of Psalms 101 through 150, Canticles in addition to prayers (Magnificat, Te Deum, Pater Noster) and a Litany of the Saints, copied at the Abbey of St. Gall between 880 and 900 from a master copy presumed to have originated in Constantinople.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 18
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 18
Parchment · 194 pp. · 24.5 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · about 1000
Collection of liturgical works, containing texts from the 9th through 12th centuries and an illustration of Pacificus of Verona's astronomical clock.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 19
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 19
Parchment · 138 pp. · 23.5 x 19 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing a copy of the Hebrew Psalter: one volume of the so-called "Kleine Hartmut-Bibel".
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 20
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 20
Parchment · 362 pp. · 30.5 x 23.5 cm · St. Gall · about 820-830
The Wolfcoz Psalter – one of St. Gallen's earliest examples of illuminated initials of the highest quality.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 21
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 21
Parchment · 578 pp. · 31 x 24 cm · Einsiedeln · 12th century
Old High German translation and commentary on the Psalms by the monk Notker the German of St. Gallen, dating from around the year 1000. This 12th century copy from Einsiedeln is the only extant complete copy.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 22
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 22
Parchment · 344 pp. · 37 x 28 cm · St. Gall · about 883-888 and about 890-900
The Golden Psalter (Psalterium aureum) of St. Gallen, written and illuminated with 17 miniatures, either in the West Franconian empire (Soissons?) or in the monastery of St. Gall with the participation of West Franconian scribes and illuminators.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 23
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 23
Parchment · 368 pp. · 38 x 29 cm · St. Gall · 872-883
The Folchart Psalter, a masterpiece of late Carolingian illumination.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 26
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 26
Parchment · 118 pp. · 8° · Abbey of Malmesbury · 1301-1330
Short Psalter from the early 14th century, produced in the now dissolved west English Abbey of Malmesbury, with calendar and All Saints Litany, illustrated with artful initials and margin borders composed of leaves, flowers, animals and human heads. Acquired by the Cloister of St. Gall since 1500 at the latest, the volume was "augmented" at this location by the addition of some recipes for medical preparations.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 27
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 27
Parchment · 732 pp. · 32 x 24 cm · St. Gall · about 850-860
A glossed psalter from the Monastery of St. Gall, dating from the middle of the 9th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 28
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 28
Parchment · 265 pp. · 37 x 24 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century
Books of the Old Testament from the time of the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz (ca. 820-840)
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 29
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 29
Parchment and paper · 334 pp. · 15.5-16 x 23.7-24 cm · beginning of the 9th century, 13th century
A composite manuscript with three parts: 1) a copy of the Song of Songs, surrounded by a learned scholarly commentary from the 12th or 13th century, possibly from the Abbey of St. Gall, 2) a copy of the letter from Prosper of Aquitaine to Rufinus regarding De gratia et libero arbitrio, the work Pro Augustino responsiones ad capitula obiectionum Gallorum calumniantium by Prosper of Aquitaine, the work Responsiones ad Dulcitium de octo quaestionibus ab eo missis by Augustine, and the pseudo-Augustinian piece Hypomnosticon contra Pelagianos (like Cologne, Dombibliothek, Codex 79), 3) an incomplete copy of Augustine's work Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate (a guide to belief, hope and love).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 30
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 30
Parchment · 102 ff. · 4° min. · St. Gall · about 800
A copy of three Old Testament books (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs) made in St. Gall in about 800. On page 1, used for quill tests, is the St. Gall mocking verse, famous among Germanist scholars, Liubene ersazta sine gruz unde kab sina tohter zu...
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 39
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 39
Parchment · 468 pp. · 28 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century and last quarter of the 9th century
Books of the Old Testament from the time of the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz (ca. 820-840)
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 40
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 40
Parchment · 358 pp. · 29.7 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · ca. 820-840
Books of the Old Testament from the time of the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz (ca. 820-840)
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 41
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 41
Parchment · 394 pp. · 25.5 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Books of the Old Testament (Isaiah, Hosea, Zechariah and Daniel) from the time of Abbot Grimald (841-872) with commentary to the left and to the right of the Bible text.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 42
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 42
Parchment · 266 pp. · 25 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · probably 872-883
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Isaiah, Jeremiah): one volume of the so-called "Kleine Hartmut-Bibel".
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 43
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 43
Parchment · 496 pp. · 31 x 21 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century
Books of the Old Testament from the time of the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz (ca. 820-840)
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 44
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 44
Parchment · 368 pp. · 30 x 21 cm · St. Gall · about 780
Books of the Old Testament, a gift of Bishop John of Constanz (760-782) to the Monastery of St. Gall; compendium of 27 medical and pharmaceutical treatises by known and unknown authors of the 9th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 45
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 45
Parchment · 346 pp. · 4° · St. Gall · 9th century
Copy of the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Twelve Minor Prophets, produced in the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. On pages 1 and 2: the remnants of a Greek version of the Gospel of Mark.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 46
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 46
Parchment · 376 pp. · 24 x 17 cm · St. Gall · about 872-883
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Ezekiel, Daniel and the minor prophets): one volume of the so-called "Kleine Hartmut-Bibel". Includes a malediction upon thieves by the owner.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 47
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 47
Parchment · 163 pp. · 20.3 x 30.1 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
A copy of the two Old Testament books of Maccabees, written in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. The end of the second book of Maccabees is missing.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 48
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 48
Parchment · 395 ff. · 22.5 x 18.5 cm · Bobbio, cloister (northeast of Genoa) · about 850
"Codex Delta": the Gospels in Greek with interlinear translation into Latin, written by Irish monks, probably in the Cloister of Bobbio (northeast of Genoa) about 850. Among the most important ancient Greek biblical texts that have been preserved. Colorfully detailed initial capitals make this item important to the study of manuscript decoration. The catalog of a cycle of Greek Gospel illustrations with 42 titles is found on page 129. The sole (fragmentary) known Carmen of the Gospel by Pseudo-Hilarius is also bound into this manuscript. Two sister-manuscripts of this Codex Delta are held by the University of Basel Library (the Greek-German Psalter) and in the State Library of Saxony at Dresden (Letters of Paul in Greek and Latin).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 49
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 49
Parchment · 157 ff. · 23.2 x 18.4 cm · St. Gall (?) · second half of the 9th century
Evangelary from the Abbey of St. Gall, written during the second half of the 9th century by many different hands in a Carolingian minuscule script. Includes a small number of Latin and Old High German glosses; on the last page are pen tests.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 50
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 50
Parchment · 536 pp. · 26 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Gospel-book with accompanying commentary, containing the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Earliest extant gospel-book from the St. Gallen scriptorum.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 51
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 51
Parchment · 268 pp. · 29.5 x 22.5 cm · Ireland · about 750
The Irish Gospel Book of St. Gall. Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, illustrated with 12 decorated pages, written and illuminated by Irish monks around 750 in Ireland.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 53
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 53
Parchment · 154 ff. · 39.5 x 23.2 cm · St. Gall · about 895
The Evangelium Longum, a world-class work created by the St. Gallen monks Sintram (text) and Tuotilo (binding).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 54
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 54
Parchment · 185 pp. · 30.3 x 21.2 cm · St. Gall · about 900
The Gundis Gospel-Book, one of the most splendid liturgical manuscripts of the monastery of St. Gall, containing a monumental "Maria" monogram.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 56
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 56
Parchment · 342 pp. · 34 x 26 cm · Fulda · first half of the 9th century
The Latin / Old High German "Tatian" manuscript. The life of Jesus as a continuous text, compiled from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John with extracts from the Acts of the Apostles. Most comprehensive text of the Old High German time, translated in the monastery of Fulda by order of St. Gallen. Foundation of Old High German grammar.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 60
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 60
Parchment · 70 pp. · 27 x 18.5 cm · 8th century
An Irish copy of John's Gospel, bound in ivory diptychs for presentation to Charles the Great as a gift for his coronation.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 63
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 63
Parchment · 160+1 ff. · 22,3 x 19,2 · St. Gall (?) · late 9th or early 10th century
A copy of the letters of Paul the Apostle, the Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic Letters (3 letters by John, 2 by Peter, one by James and one by Jude) and the Apocalypse, written around the end of the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century, likely at the Abbey of St. Gall. On the insides of the covers, mirror image copies of fragmental portions of the Vergilius Sangallensis (Cod. Sang. 1394) and the Vulgate version of the Gospels (Cod. Sang. 1395) are visible.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 64
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 64
Parchment · 418 pp. · 21.4 x 16.7 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
A copy of the Pauline Epistles with a miniature of Paul the Apostle, preaching in front of a great number of Jews and pagans, copies of Alcuin's works "De dialectica" and "De rhetorica" and of the work "Peri hermeneias" of Apuleius of Madaura (?), written in the monastery of St. Gall in the second half of the 9th century, with amendments from the 11th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 65
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 65
Parchment · 216 pp. · St. Gall · 10th century and 12th century
A composite manuscript with two unrelated parts: 1) an incomplete copy of the Somnium Scipionis section of the work De re publica by Marcus Tullius Cicero, written in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century, followed by a 10th century St. Gall copy of the commentary originally written by the Roman author Macrobius of late antiquity in about 430/440 and widely disseminated during the middle ages. A fragment of this manuscript may also be found in Cod. Voss.lat.qu. 33 (fol. 58) in the library of the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden; 2) a St. Gall copy of the seven Catholic Letters (3 written by John, 2 by Peter, one by James, one by Jude) with a learned scholarly commentary from the 12th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 68
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 68
Parchment · 406 pp. · 23 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter ofthe 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Job, Tobit, Judith, Esther and the prologue of the book Ezra) as well as the Pauline Epistles: a volume of the so-called "Kleine Hartmut-Bibel".
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 70
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 70
Parchment · 258 pp. · 29 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · 760-780
Winithar's copy of the Pauline Epistles – Winithar's address to his fellow monks.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 72
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 72
Parchment · 336 pp. · 24,7/25,1 x 29,7/29,9 cm · St. Gall · mid 9th century
Copies of the Epistles of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic Letters (3 by John, 2 by Peter, one by James, one by Jude) and the Apocalypse, written and decorated with several initials sometime in the middle of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 73
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 73
Parchment · 262 pp. · 2° · St. Gall · 9th century
A commentary by Pseudo-Jerome on the Epistles of Paul. This manuscript, produced by the Cloister of St. Gall in the 9th century, is significant in terms of textual history study. Pages 231 through 260 contain the oldest commentary on the Letter to the Hebrews, composed by Irish theologians from the circle of Pelagius during the 7th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 75
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 75
Parchment · 840 pp. · 55 x 40 cm · Tours, Abbey St. Martin · 9th century
The earliest complete extant pandect of Alcuin from the abbey of St. Martin at Tours.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 77
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 77
Parchment · 482 pp. · 46.5 x 35 cm · St. Gall · about 850-860
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Ruth). The first volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 78
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 78
Parchment · 336 pp. · 42 x 31 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Samuel I and II and Kings III and IV).The second volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 79
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 79
Parchment · 452 pp. · 39.5 x 30 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Paralipomenon I and II, Judith, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah and Maccabees I and II).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 81
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 81
Parchment · 363 pp. · 42 x 31 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus--also called Sirach, Job, Tobit). A volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".