| 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: 10
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 1
Paper · 105 ff. · 33 x 22 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · second half of the 15th century (about 1470)
This manuscript contains the Psalms, ordered according to the arrangement of the liturgy of the hours, in Latin and each followed by the German translation. It was copied by two woman scribes, nuns in the Dominican Convent of St. Katharina in St. Gall. One hand is probably that of Angela Varnbühler. The binding consists of simple wooden tablets, covered in leather without any ornamentation, which is typical for the first phase of the St. Katharina scriptorium; it constitutes an additional element to attest to the origin of the manuscript.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 32
Paper · 112 ff. · 18.5 x 15 cm · St. Gall · 1543
After the city council of St. Gallen abolished the charter of the cloistered community of Dominican sisters at St. Katharina on May 2, 1528 and gradually liquidated the convent, only Regula Keller and two sisters remained in the cloister buildings, where they continued to work throughout 1543, copying the Augustinian Rule and Constitutions. The reading of the Rule and the Constitutions was more strongly emphasized by the reformed cloisters, in keeping with the character of their religious observance.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 41
Paper · 452 ff. · 21 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall · 1484
This work presents a guide to the Christian life in 24 speeches, each following a particular theme, put together using brief selections from more than 100 authors. In the late middle ages this was a favorite text for reading aloud at meals, especially the long and detailed life of Mary in the "Old 12th", which combines the story of Christ's Passion with an account of the fate of Mary.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, Konventsbuch
Paper · 187 ff. · 29 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · ca. 1481/82-1528
Formerly referred to in the reseach literature as the "Chronic" or "Chronicle", this was in truth the convent record book of the Cloister of St. Katharina in St. Gall (61r:...und sol dis also in des convents buoch gesetz werden...). The content consists of chronologically ordered entries concerning the business transactions of the convent. The manuscript was produced in the course of the reform period, as the convent was converted from private to communal ownership. Thus this convent book served as a record of the transfer of administrative authority of St. Katharina to the convent community itself and made it possible for the sisters to maintain oversight of the goods they had brought with them when they joined the convent. Records concerning building projects, decoration, scriptorium, legal conflicts and donations, entries concerning individual sisters, pastoral staff and employees as well as sporadic entries about the history of the convent were also set down in this manuscript.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M II
Parchment · 224 pp. · 53 x 39 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina (?) · end of the 15th century
This parchment manuscript written about the end of the 15th century, with musical notation and book decoration, contains the Proprium de tempore (Winter portion, First Sunday of Advent through Good Friday). The text breaks off at the bottom of a page in the Good Friday antiphon, at the end of the third Psalm for Lauds. The antiphonary was held by the St. Gall Dominican convent of St. Katharina, where it may also have been written. The same hand also wrote the convent's manuscript containing the summer portion of the antiphonary (Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M III).
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M III
Parchment · 219 pp. · 53 x 39 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina (?) · end of the 15th century
This Antiphonary for the feast days of saints (Proprium de sanctis, Andreas through Dominikus), with the Signature M II, was written by the same hand as the Antiphonary containing the winter portion of the Proprium de Tempore (Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M II). Like M II, this manuscript with musical notation and book decoration was also written about the end of the 15th century, probably at the Dominican convent in St. Gall.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M VII
Parchment · 24 ff. · 22 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall, Dominican Convent of St. Katharina · 15th century (1484?)
Processionale copied by the Dominican nuns of the Convent of St. Katharina of St. Gall in the second half of the 15th century. The manuscript is written in textualis by the hand of the same nun who copied the Processionale M VIII, perhaps also the Processionale M VI as well as the manuscript which today has the signature Cod. Sang. 1914. It might be the manuscript ij nv́wi procesional, which was mentioned in the Chronicle (now „Konventsbuch“) in 1484 and which, according to the same source, was re-bound in the year 1485. The binding consists of simple wooden tablets, covered in leather without any ornamentation, which is typical for the first phase of the St. Katharina scriptorium; it constitutes an additional element to attest to the origin of the manuscript.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, M 3
Paper · 208 pp. · 24 x 17 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 15th century
This breviary from the second half of the 15th century, written by the Dominican nuns Cordula von Schönau and Verena Gnepser of the cloister of St. Katharina in St. Gall, contains a calendar as well as the summer portion of the Proprium de tempore (Easter Sunday through the 25th Sunday afgter the octave of Pentacost), the In dedicatione ecclesiae, the Collectae de sanctis et de communi sanctorum (Tiburtius and Valerian through Dominicus), the Officium commune sanctorum as well as two psalters and a hymnal. In the calendar, which opens the paper manuscript, are some entries in the hand of Verena Gnepser containing the names of relatives. This indicates personal use of this breviary by Verena Gnepser.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, Schwesternbuch
Paper · 257/266 ff. · 31 x 23.5 cm · St. Gall · about 1480 (?)
The title of this manuscript is misleading: it does not mean, as it would in formal research, a collection of short biographies of the sisters of a particular cloister written by close associates in the following generation of sisters. On closer examination, the contents of the St. Gall Book of Sisters has two parts, probably composed at the beginning of the 1480s: Part 1, fols. jr-xxiiijv (pp. 5-32 of the new pagination): digests of the history of the cloister during the years 1229-1488, with references to supporting documents. Part 2, fols. xxvir-xxvjr: letters exchanged between the Dominican nuns of St. Gall and those of the convent of St. Katherine in Nurnberg; fols. xlviijr-CCLXIVv are not in letter form (without salutations and formulas of greeting, etc.), but rather are records of Nurnberg usances (financial transactions) edited in report form, grouped by themes; fols. CCLIXr-CCLXIVv: a register.
Wil, Dominikanerinnenkloster St. Katharina, Urbar
Paper · 99 ff. · 31 x 41.5 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 15th century
Described in fols. Ir-lxxxjv: a catalog of properties, farms and land holdings together with information on their productivity and income generated; after fol. 84 an inserted fascicle containing a register, in a hand from about 1600, with an alphabetical listing on a sectioned portion to the right.