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Number of manuscripts: 353, displayed: 201 – 250
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 371
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 371
Parchment · II + 320 pp. · 25.5 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall (possibly) · third quarter of the 11th century
Epistolary originating from Reichenau/St. Gallen, illustrated with a portrait of the epistle-writer Saint Paul and five painted Christological miniatures from the third quarter of the 11th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 374
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 374
Parchment · 845 pp. · 21 x 16 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 11th century
Deluxe manuscript for the celebration of feast day masses in the monastery of St. Gall, written and illustrated with numerous initials around the middle of the 11th century. Contains a gradual with neumes and a Lectionary with the readings for the liturgical year.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 375
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 375
Parchment · 332 pp. · 21.4 x 15.6 cm · St. Gall · about 1135
Gradual from St. Gallen, dating from the 12th century, with two illustrations of the monk Luitherus.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 376
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 376
Parchment · 436 pp. · 26.3 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 11th century
Deluxe manuscript for the celebration of the Mass in the monastery of St. Gall, dating from 1050/70, containing sequences of the St. Gallen monk "Notker the Stammerer" (died 912).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 378
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 378
Parchment · I + 400 + I pp. · 18.8 x 12.5 cm · St. Gall · about 1050-1060
Musical manuscript in small format from the monastery of St. Gall containing a calendar, a computus, a tropary, a sequentiary, an antiphonary, offertory and tractus from the middle of the 11th century as well as an appendix with sequences from the 13th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 380
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 380
Parchment · 390 pp. · 17.8 x 9 cm · St. Gall · about 1050-1060
Small music manuscript from the middle of the 11th century containing an (incomplete) calendar, computus, tropary and sequentiary in an elegant hand, with delicate neumes.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 381
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 381
Parchment · 500 pp. · 8° · St. Gall · about 930
Versiculary, Hymnal, Tropary and Sequentiary from the monastery of St. Gall, written and provided with neumes around 930, possibly by a monk named Salomon. The small-sized, undecorated manuscript contains the St. Gallen repertoire of the chants sung in the monastery and works by the monks Notker Balbulus, Tuotilo, Ratpert, Waltram and Ekkehart I. Counts among the foremost monuments worldwide in the history of early medieval music.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 382
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 382
Parchment · 270 pp. · 8° · St. Gall · 11th century (until about 1400)
An incompletely preserved musical manuscript from the 11th century, written in the monastery of St. Gall, with added supplementary leaves up to around 1400. Contains a Tropary, a Versiculary and a Sequentiary.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 383
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 383
Parchment · 176 pp. · 8° · before 1250
Tropary and Sequentiary in point-like square notation with exceptionally fine monophonic and polyphonic music from the great repertoire of the school of Notre-Dame at Paris. Written before 1250 in Western Switzerland, probably at the Cathedral of Lausanne. Probably in St. Gallen by 1300.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 388
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 388
Parchment · 498 pp. · 4° · St. Gall · 12th century (additions until the late 14th century)
Antiphonary from St. Gallen for the liturgy of the divine office, as sung by St Gall monks, dating from the 12th century, with addenda until the late 14th century. Illustrated with several initials and (at the beginning) with a miniature of the crucified Christ with Mary and John.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 390
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 390
Parchment · 194 pp. · 22 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall · about 990-1000
Winter volume of the so-called Hartker Antiphonary: Chants for the liturgy of the hours of the St. Gallen monks, written and provided with finest neumes by the St. Gallen monk Hartker. A masterpiece of script, neumes and illuminated initials. The most important choral manuscript, with four colored pen drawings of outstanding quality.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 391
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 391
Parchment · 264 pp. · 22 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall · about 990-1000
Summer volume of the so-called Hartker Antiphonary: Chants for the liturgy of the hours of the St. Gallen monks, written and provided with finest neumes by the St. Gallen monk Hartker. A masterpiece of script, neumes and illuminated initials. The most important choral manuscript, with four colored pen drawings of outstanding quality.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 393
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 393
Parchment · 264 pp. · 4° · St. Gall · about 1010-1060
The "Liber Benedictionum" by Ekkehard IV: a collection of his personal poetic works that he probably began during his time as a monastery pupil and constantly revised until the end of his life. The manuscript is written completely by Ekkehard IV. and is one of the few known autographs of the early Middle Ages (ca. 1010-1060). It contains, among other items, the "Benedictiones super lectores per circulum anni" (poetry for the different feast days of the year), the "Benedictiones ad mensas" (benedictions of different foods and drinks), the "Versus ad picturas domus domini Mogontinae" (verses on the projected picture series for the Cathedral of Mainz), "Versus ad picturas claustri sancti Galli" (verses for the [projected] picture series for the cloister [?] in the monastery of St. Gall) and the Latin translation of the Old High German "Galluslied" by Ratpert.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 397
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 397
Parchment · 148 pp. · 4° · St. Gall · middle of the 9th century
Personal reference handbook (vade mecum) of Grimald of St. Gallen (Abbot 841-872). This manuscript collection contains items of poetic, liturgical, computational, natural scientific, and historical content, including a calendar, an horology table (orologium), word explanations and definitions from various fields of knowledge, the names of the nymphs and muses, and a provincial directory for the area of St. Gallen. About 40 different scribes added texts to this manuscript.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 398
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 398
Parchment · 220 pp. · 4° min. · St. Gall · s. XI
A Benedictional from the diocese of Mainz, written and decorated with about 200 gold initials and a full-page miniature of Christ as Savior of the World; from about the year 1000, during the tenure of Archbishop Willigis (975-1011). Obtained by the Cloister of St. Gall at an unknown point in time (oldest evidence: in St. Gallen by about 1600). It contains the prayers of benediction to be sung by the bishop, ordered according to the church year.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 402
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 402
Parchment · 420 pp. · 4° · 14th century
Book of hours, composed for an unknown convent in the diocese of Basel: excellent example of early Gothic book art. With a Calendar, 14 miniatures of the life of Christ and Mary, the Psalter, Canticles and an All Saints' Litany.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 413
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 413
Parchment · 702 pp. · 25.8 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Winter part (from the first Sunday in Advent to Holy Saturday) of a Breviary written in the monastery of St. Gall between 1034 and 1047 (with readings and chants for the liturgy of the divine office), with addenda until the 14th century. Prefaced by a Calendar and computational tables. The corresponding summer part of the Breviary can be found in Cod. Sang. 387. One of the oldest extant Breviaries from St. Gallen.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 414
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 414
Parchment · 666 pp. · 27.0 x 20.0 cm · St. Gall · about 1030 (additions until the 14th century)
Winter part (from the first Sunday in Advent to Holy Saturday) of a Breviary for the divine office, written around 1030 with addenda until the 14th century. Contains, in addition to a large Lectionary and Antiphonary, a Calendar and computational tables. One of the oldest extant Breviaries from St. Gallen.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 423
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 423
Parchment · 440 pp. · 20.5x27 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
The summer portion of a Lectionarium officii containing scripture lessons to be sung by a choir, produced during the 10th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 424
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 424
Parchment · 636 pp. · 2° · St. Gall · middle of the 9th century
An incomplete copy of the Expositio libri comitis, a selection of Epistle and Gospel readings organized according to the Church year composed by the Benedictine monk Smaragdus of St. Mihiel (near Verdun; † ca. 840), produced near the middle of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 425
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 425
Parchment and paper · 181 pp. · 20.8 x 29.8 cm · St. Gall (?) · 10th - 11th century
Lectionary for the period from Christmas through the second Sunday of Lent, with 32 homilies (Predigten) for Sundays and feastdays, written mostly by the church fathers (Ambrosius, Augustine, the Venerable Bede, Fulgentius and Leo the Great, among others), most likely produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 10th or early 11th century. The name of one scribe, Egilolfus, added later, can be found on page 85 of the manuscript. The front pages of the manuscript are in exceedingly poor condition, having suffered water damage. The text breaks off on page 177, in the course of a tract by Leo the Great.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 426
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 426
Parchment · 290 pp. · 2° · 9th century
A copy of the Liber scintillarum, a text originally written in about 730 by the monk Defensor of Ligugé (near Poitiers), produced during the 9th century, not at the Abbey of St. Gall. The 81 chapter Liber scintillarum is a florilegium (anthology) of maxims and sayings attributed to God and the saints, derived from the Bible and the writings of the church fathers. The last part of the volume contains fragments of lessons from the monastic liturgy of the hours (lectiones), as well as aphorisms.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 430
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 430
Parchment · 635 pp. · 43.5 x 33 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
105 sermons from the first Sunday in Advent (end of November / beginning of December) to Annunciation Day (March 25).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 431
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 431
Parchment · 322 pp. · 43 x 32 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
60 sermons for Lent and for Holy Week.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 432
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 432
Parchment · 542 pp. · 43 x 30 cm · St. Gall · second quarter of the 9th century
146 sermons from Easter to the last Sunday after Pentecost.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 433
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 433
Parchment · 706 pp. · 41 x 30 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Deluxe manuscript with numerous outstanding, perfectly executed initials and an excellent image of dedication (Saint Augustine), containing mostly sermons for the principal saints' days.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 434
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 434
Parchment · 340 pp. · 41 x 31 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Sermons for the Sundays after Pentecost.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 435
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 435
Parchment · 588 pp. · 2° maj. · Chelles (Paris) · about 810
An incomplete copy of the Expositio libri comitis, a selection of Epistle and Gospel readings organized according to the Church year, composed by the Benedictine monk Smaragdus of St. Mihiel (near Verdun; † ca. 840). This copy produced at the women's cloister of Chelles Abbey near Paris was produced in about 810 and is the oldest known surviving copy.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 446
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 446
Parchment · 344 pp. · 4° · St. Gall · between 845 and 870
Manuscript compilation consisting mainly of works of liturgical and pastoral character, produced between 845 and 870 in the monastery of St. Gall. It contains, among other items, a liturgical study by Abbot Walahfrid Strabo of Reichenau (808/09-849) Liber de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum, the first western European reference work on liturgical history, the so called Ordines Romani, a liturgical study by Amalar of Trier, the first Capitular of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, two treatises about baptism and the mass attributed to Alcuin as well as the Capitular documents (diocesan legislative documents) of Haito, Bishop of Basel and Abbot of Reichenau.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 450
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 450
Parchment · A,B + 46 + Y,Z pp. · 25/25,5 x 14/15,5 · second half of the 10th and beginning of the 11th century
A composite manuscript consisting mainly of calendars and texts with chronological content, produced in the second half of the 10th century and at the beginning of the 11th century, for the most part not at the Abbey of St. Gall. The main content items are a calendar, possibly of northern Italian origin, and excerpts from the work “De temporum ratione” by the Venerable Bede († 735).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 451
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 451
Parchment · 54 pp. · 24.5 x 17 cm · 9th/10th centuries
A martyrology by the Venerable Bede († 735) in Anglo-Saxon script, produced in the 9th century. This partial surviving copy (including the beginning of January through July 25th) is distinguished in this collection as a surviving direct copy from the original text composed by Bede. (Note: a martyrology is a collection of longer or shorter life histories of the saints in calendar date order.)
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 454
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 454
Parchment · 368 pp. · 34 x 26 cm · St. Gall · about 880-890
A copy of the martyrology of Ado of Vienne († 875). As an appendix the manuscript also contains vitae of ancient saints, possibly written by Notker Balbulus himself around 880/890.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 456
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 456
Parchment · IV + 390 + IV pp. · 22 x 16 cm · St. Gall · 10th/11th centuries
The sole surviving copy of the Martyrologium by the St. Gall monk Notker Balbulus (d. 912), a work written in about 900 and following. This particular copy from the first half of the 10th century is incomplete: a martyrology includes short biographies of the saints according to their given days in the calendar year, but information about saints for dates from June 13-17, July 3-6, August 19-26, October 27 and December 31 is missing. It is very likely that Notker Balbulus never completed the ambitious project of writing the original Martyrologium.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 457
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 457
Parchment · 190 pp. · 21.5 x 13-13.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
A martyrology by Hrabanus Maurus, possibly written in Mainz or Fulda, produced shortly after 843. This codex is very likely the presentation copy given to Abbot Grimald of St. Gallen (841-872); however, the presentation dedication is missing from the front matter.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 458
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 458
Parchment · 228 pp. · 21.5 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
A martyrology by Hrabanus Maurus, composed shortly after 843. The codex contains a copy of Cod. Sang. 457, under the auspices of the St. Gallen monk Notker Balbulus shortly after 875. It also includes the presentation dedication, missing from the presentation copy (Cod. Sang. 457), addressed to Abbot Ratleik of Seligenstadt and Abbot Grimald of St. Gallen (841-872).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 459
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 459
Parchment · 366 ff. · 21 x 15-17 cm · St. Gall · 9th/10th centuries
Computational/scientific compilation manuscript with numerous tables, schematics, and texts about calendar computation, produced in the monastery of St. Gall around the end of the 9th century and beginning ot the 10th. The volume also includes a St. Gallen calendar and the Annales Sangallenses brevissimi (a short history of St. Gallen). Two early medieval maps of the world (terrae orbis or T-O maps) precede the work De temporum ratione by the Venerable Bede.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 462
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 462
Paper · 182 pp. · 18.5 x 24.5 cm · 16th century
The song book of Chaplain Johannes Heer of Glarus: a collection of 88 folk-, students-, love-, drinking- and joke songs, among them 40 unique items; from the pre-reformation period (1510-1520).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 463
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 463
Paper · I + 143 ff. · 4° · s. XVI
Songbook compiled by the universal scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) from the middle of the 16th century. The volume contains 215 musical scores in measured notation using the five line staff, mainly by contemporary French, Dutch, and German composers such as Josquin Desprez, Adrian Willaert, Jacob Obrecht, Heinrich Isaac, and Ludwig Senfl. The descant (or soprano) parts are found on the left-hand pages, with the alto (or tenor) parts on the right-hand pages.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 484
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 484
Parchment · 323 pp. · 10 x 8 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 10th century
Important musical manuscript in very small format containing the repertory of tropes, Ordinary chants and sequences in use around 930/940 in the monastery of St. Gall. With discrete texts and compositions by numerous St. Gallen monks (Notker Balbulus, Tuotilo, Ratpert, Notker Physicus, Waltram and others). The manuscript was intended for the cantor who indicated the melody to the other singers.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 530
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 530
Paper · VII + 140 ff. · 30.5-31 x 20.5-21 cm · 1517 / 1531
An organ tablature by the St. Gall cathedral organist and calligrapher Fridolin Sicher (1490-1546). Starting in 1512, while he was a pupil of the organist Hans Buchner in Konstanz, Sicher gathered 176 pieces by 94 composers (including Paul Hofhaimer, Hans Buchner, Jacob Obrecht, Josquin Desprez, Matthaeus Pipelaere) together in this volume. Two thirds are sacred vocal pieces, the rest are originally secular songs. The descant is in measured notation on a five line staff, while the remaining vocal parts are indicated with alphabet letters and rhythmical symbols. Some of the compositions may be found only in this particular organ book.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 541
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 541
Parchment · 298 ff. · 2° maj. · 1544
This large-format antiphonary from the Cloister of St. Gall, produced in the year 1544 at the request of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1530-1564), contains songs to be sung during the liturgy of the hours on holy days throughout the year. The scribe who wrote this volume was the cleric, cathedral organist and calligrapher Fridolin Sicher (1490-1546), the illuminator who made the 22 figured initials and the full-page double illustration at the beginning of the antiphonary is unknown.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 542
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 542
Parchment · 796 pp. · 2° max. · 1562
An opulently illustrated large-format gradual containing four-part vocal pieces, from the Cloister of St. Gall, written and illuminated in the year 1562. By order of Prince-Bishop Diethelm Blarer, the Italian Manfred Barbarini Lupus from Correggio composed these challenging vocal pieces, Father Heinrich Keller (1518-1567) wrote the text, and the manuscript illustrator Kaspar Härtli from Lindau on the Bodensee illuminated the first pages with the important holy days of the church year. The volume has richly ornamented borders and numerous miniatures, among them five of full-page size, and contains the heraldic shields of St. Gall monks living at that time; the ornamented pages include many depictions of musical instruments of the period (some of which are no longer known).
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 546
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 546
Paper · 814 pp. · 2° · St. Gall · before the year 1507 Scarpatetti: 1507-1514
Great collection of St. Gallen tropes and sequences by Father Joachim Cuontz († 1515), compiled for Abbot Franz Gaisberg (1504-1529) shortly before the beatification of the St Gall monk Notker Balbulus († 912) in the year of 1513. Important document of late medieval choral history. Many of the melodies are, for the first time in St. Gallen, provided with musical notation on five staves.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 548
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 548
Parchment · 176 pp. · 22 x 13.8 cm · St. Gall · last quarter of the 8th century
From the time of Abbot Werdo (784-812): biographies of ancient Roman saints.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 549
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 549
Parchment · II + 68 pp. · 19.5 x 9.5 cm · eastern France (?) · about 800
Life of St. Marcellinus, written in a very early Carolingian minuscule, presumably slightly earlier than 800, probably in eastern France.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 550
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 550
Parchment · 244 pp. · 14/15 x 9/11 cm · southern German region · second half of the 9th century
A manuscript compilation from the second half of the 9th century, produced in the south German region, not at the Abbey of St. Gall. It contains the life story of Saints George, Felix and Regula, and Michael, the so-called Reichenau and Murbach “Briefformeln” (letter-forms), the Book of Pennance (Poenitentiale) by Pseudo-Cummean as well as selections from a grammar book.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 551
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 551
Parchment · 448 pp. · 19 x 15 cm · St. Gall · first quarter of the 10th century
A collection of vitae of 13 saints, among them – preserved only here – the vita of St Germanus of Moutier-Grandval in the canton of Jura, Switzerland, written by Bobolenus of Luxeuil ca. 690. A copy from the early 10th century.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 552
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 552
Parchment · 282 pp. · 22.5 x 15-15.5 cm · Northwestern France (?) · about 800
A manuscript of collected texts, including the lives of Church fathers and founders of monastic orders, written in an early Carolingian script, probably shortly before 800 in a scriptorium in northeastern France.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 553
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 553
Parchment · 330 pp. · 23 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th/10th centuries
Lives of the patron or "house" saints of St. Gallen, written in the first half of the 9th century in the monastery of St. Gall, includes multiple short hagiographic and liturgical texts including: a) the life history of Columba, composed by Jonas of Bobbio, in excellent condition, b) the unique surviving copy in the world of the life history of St. Gallen founder Saint Gallus, composed by Reichenau monk Wetti in about 816/824.
Shelfmark: Cod. Sang. 554
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 554
Parchment · 410 pp. · 23 x 19 cm · 10th century
A copy of the life of Pope Gregory I., originally written by Johannes Diaconus (825-880/882). This 10th century copy was probably not produced at the Abbey of St. Gall.