| Location: | St. Gallen |
| Library / Collection: | Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung |
| Shelfmark: | VadSlg Ms. 43 |
| Manuscript title: | Joachim Vadian: Chronikbůch ettlicher äbten zů S. Gallen |
| Caption: | Paper · 529 ff. · 33 x 22 cm · 1529/1530 until 1523 |
| Language: | German |
| Manuscript summary: | In the years 1529-1531 the St. Gall humanist, reformer, and politician Joachim Vadian wrote a history of the abbey and city of St. Gall during the high and late middle ages (1199-1491). It goes by the title Grössere Chronik der Äbte (Great Chronicle of the Abbots). In this work, Vadian describes the way the abbey town changed into a self-reliant, independent city and became wealthy from the cloth weaving industry. The historical work is simultaneously a work of heated reformist protest, exposing and often bitingly commenting upon the increasing corruption of church dignitaries and institutions, particularly the Abbots and Abbey of St. Gall since the investiture conflict. |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | 10.5076/e-codices-vad-0043 |
| Permanent link: | http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/vad/0043 |
| How to quote: | St. Gallen, Kantonsbibliothek, Vadianische Sammlung, VadSlg Ms. 43: Joachim Vadian: Chronikbůch ettlicher äbten zů S. Gallen (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/vad/0043) |
| Online since: | 12/19/2011 |
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