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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek

The Abbey Library of Einsiedeln is rightfully considered a typical monastery library. Around the Holy Scripture as its center point are arranged the spiritual, theological sciences in an inner circle, around these in an outer circle are arranged all other sciences, from history, philosophy and jurisprudence to the natural sciences and medicine. Such comprehensive breadth was already documented in manuscripts from the early days of the monastery, as well as in ones from the so-called historical collection of the post-Reformation period, and the same remains true today for the modern library. The abbey library’s collection today includes about 1,200 manuscripts (of these about 580 are from before 1500), 1,100 incunabula and early printed works (until 1520), and 230,000 printed volumes from the 16th to the 21st century. Numerous current journals and periodicals offer the most up-to-date research from a large variety of disciplines.

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405)
Parchment · 384 pp. · 28.1-28.5 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century (before 950)
IV Evangelia

A copy of the four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950). (lan)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 18(576)
Parchment · 336 pp. · 21.2 x 16 cm · probably Northern Italy · 8th/9th century
Adelpertus, Commentarius in Psalmos LXX priores . Adhortationes Sanctorum Patrum

Commentary on the first 70 Psalms by Adelpertus and, at the end, a selection of proverbs by church fathers, written in a pre-Carolingian minuscule at the end of the 9th century, probaby in Northern Italy. The two missing pages at the end are part of the fragment collection Einsiedeln, Abbey Library (Stiftsbibliothek), 370, IV, Bl. 18-19. (ber)

Online Since: 12/13/2013

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 27(1195)
Parchment · 140 ff. · 15.5 x 9.5 cm · Northern Italy, Switzerland (?) · 8th/9th century / 9th century (second third)
Ascetica

The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24) was written by various unskilled hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to the 8th/9th century and localized in a scriptorium in northern Italy or in Switzerland. The second part (25-140) is dated to the second third of the 9th century. (ber)

Online Since: 04/23/2013

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 28(1279)
Parchment · III + 518 + II pp. · 13 x 19 cm · 14th century
[Anonymus]. Veritas textus bibliorum

This volume contains a number of tracts by anonymous authors as well as extracts from works of textual criticism treating individual books of the Old and New Testaments. Specifically worth naming are: Guilelmus Brito (died ca. 1275), Johannes de Colonia (13th century) and Guilelmus de Mara Lamara (1230-ca. 1290). The content is of Franciscan authorship, suggesting that the manuscript was produced in a Minorite cloister. (lan)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 29(878)
Parchment · 239 pp. · 20 x 15.8 cm · Einsiedeln or southwestern Germany · 9th-10th centuries / 14th century
Composite manuscript

A composite manuscript written in the 9th, 10th and 14th centuries, probably in Einsiedeln or southwestern Germany. It contains, among other things, glosses on the Gospels, the Annales Heremi from the birth of Christ to the year 940, and various astronomical treatises, including the Sphaera by John of Sacrobosco and the Computus by Helpericus of Auxerre. (ber)

Online Since: 12/19/2011

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 32(1060)
Parchment · 358 pp. · 17.5/18 x 13 cm · 10th-12th century
[Anonymus]. Glossae. Tractatus de medicina

A composite manuscript consisting of sections from three datable periods, the first from the 10th century, the other two from the 12th century. The first part (1-222) contains glosses on Priscian, the second (223-310) a collection of medical tracts assembled by Constantinus Africanus, the third part (311-357) contains the Liber Tegni by Galen (129/131-199/201). (ber)

Online Since: 12/19/2011

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 36(364)
Parchment · 260 pp. · 28.3 x 20.8 cm · Einsiedeln · 11th/12th century
[Godefridus Babio], Expositio super Mathaeum

The content consists mostly of an anonymous commentary on the Gospel of Matthew attributed to Geoffrey Babion, together with other short texts, not all of which have been identified. The manuscript probably originated in Einsiedeln, certainly it has been there since the 14th century as attested by various annotations and marks by Heinrich von Ligerz. (ber)

Online Since: 09/23/2014

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 38(366)
Parchment · 1 + 189 ff. · 28.5 x 23 cm · Einsiedeln · 10th century (second half, about 960-965)
[Anonymus], Expositio octo priorum Epistolarum S. Pauli

Commentary on the first eight epistles of Paul. This is a copy of a (lost) exemplar which, according to tradition, was written before 945 by Abbot Thietland († around 964). The text depends to a great degree upon the Pauline commentary of Bishop Atto of Vercelli (885-961). (pag)

Online Since: 12/20/2012

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 40(481)
Parchment · II + 316 pp. · 26 x 19 cm · St. Gall · 10th century (before 950)
Epistolae pro tempore et festis

Lectionary, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950). It may have been presented by St. Gall to Einsiedeln on the occasion of the consecration of the church at Einsiedeln in 948, together with Codex 17. (lan)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 60(580)
Parchment · a-b, I-II + 192 + y-z pp. · 28.8 x 13.5/13.7 cm · Western Germany (?) / Einsiedeln · 9th century (second third) / 10th century (second half)
Alcuinus, In Genesin . Priscianus, Partitiones

Composite manuscript consisting of two parts, which were joined in the 14th century at the latest, as confirmed by the dating of the binding. The first part (1-85) contains Alcuin’s commentary on Genesis and is dated to the second third of the 9th century; some researchers localize this manuscript in western Germany, others in Raetia. The second part (87-191)contains the Partitiones by the grammarian Priscian and was written in the second half of the 10th century in Einsiedeln. A letter, sent by Heinrich II. von Güttingen, Abbot of Einsiedeln (1280 to 1299), to the vice-chaplain of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul on the island Ufenau, is copied onto the last page. (ber)

Online Since: 04/23/2013

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 79(522)
Parchment · 109 pp. · 24.5 x 19 cm · Einsiedeln · 10th century
Musica enchiriadis

This codex can be dated to the 10th century; it contains the Musica enchiriadis (2-27), a 9th century music theory treatise which endeavors to develop a series of rules for polyphonic composition, as well as annotations to the commentary Scolica enchiriadis (27-45, 66-102). Dasian notation is used in order to graphically illustrate the music. For a long time, this treatise was attributed to the monk Hucbald, but today it is considered the work of an anonymous author. (ber)

Online Since: 03/22/2017

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 83(76)
Parchment · 462 ff. · 34.5 x 26 cm · Einsiedeln · 11th century (about 1060-1075/1100)
Breviarium antiquissimum

Cod. 83 is a complete breviary consisting of the following parts: calendar, antiphonary with neume notation, lectionary with biblical readings, homilary containing interpretations by the Church Fathers, hymnal, canticles from the Old and New Testaments, psalter, brief readings, prayers, preces and benedictions. Of special note is the oldest version of the Meinrad Office known to us, which is still used today. The melodies used in the antiphonary belong to the Alemanic choral dialect, still sung in the same form in Einsiedeln in the liturgy of the hours. (lan)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 109(447)
Parchment · II + 256 + II pp. · 27.6 x 19.8 cm · St. Gall · 11th century (second half)
Amalarius (Metensis), De ecclesiasticis officiis Lib. I und II

This manuscript produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 11th century contains a copy of De ecclesiasticis officiis Lib. I et II by Amalarius (Metensis), from which some chapters are missing. The continuation, with the missing text, is found in Cod. 110, which was also produced in St. Gall. (lan)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 110(463)
Parchment · II + 430 + II pp. · 27 x 18.7 cm · St. Gall · 11th century (second half)
Ordines Romani

A manuscript of collected works, including the Ordines Romani and the works of Amalarius (Metensis). The content of this codex is nearly identical to that of Abbey Library of St. Gall Cod. Sang. 446, indicating that this copy, made in the second half of the 11th century, is of St. Gallen origin. (lan)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 117(497)
Parchment · 126 pp. · 25 x 18.5 cm · Einsiedeln · End of the 11th century
Martyrologium, Regula S. Benedicti, Homiliarium

This manuscript contains a martyrology (pp. 1-28), the Rule of Saint Benedict (pp. 28-83) and a homiliary (pp. 84-126). It was written by two scribes in a late Carolingian minuscule and contains two initials decorated with plant branches drawn in ink. In the 13th century, a document about the confraternity of Einsiedeln Abbey and St. Blaise Abbey in the Black Forest was added to a blank area at the end of the text of the Rule of Saint Benedict (p. 83). (ber)

Online Since: 03/17/2016

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 121(1151)
Parchment · 300 pp. · 10.5 x 16 cm · Einsiedeln · about 960-970
Graduale – Notkeri Sequentiae

This Codex comprises the oldest complete surviving neumed mass antiphonary; it includes assorted appendices (such as Alleluia verses, Antiphons and Psalm verses for the Communion Antiphons). Because the mass antiphonary is complete, the manuscript remains important to this day as a resource for Gregorian chant research. The second part of the codex contains the Libyer Ymnorum, the Sequences of Notker of St. Gall. Recent research has established that the codex was written in Einsiedeln itself (in about 960-970), most likely for the third abbot of the cloister, Gregor the Englishman. (lan)

Online Since: 03/31/2011

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 126(218)
Parchment · 267 (274) pp. · 31.5 x 21.5 cm · Disentis · first third of the 9th century
Hieronimus, Expositio in Evangelium Matthaei

This manuscript contains Jerome’s commentary on Matthew; it was written in Carolingian minuscule by the scribe Subo, who signed at the end of the text (p. 267) as well as on the last page (p. 268), which today, as the inside back page, is glued to the cover. The style of the initials indicates the Rhaetian area, whereas the scribe Subo is attested at Disentis Abbey. The manuscript has been in Einsiedeln since at least the 17th century, as shown by an ex libris on page 1. (ber)

Online Since: 04/09/2014

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 131(1063)
Parchment · I-II + 272 pp. · 17.5 x 12.8 cm · 10th/11th century / 12th/13th century
Composite manuscript with works by Jerome, Gennadius, Isidore and others

This composite manuscript contains among others the De viris illustribus by Jerome and the De viris illustribus by Gennadius, the Deflorata by Isidore of Seville and, at the very end, the Tractatus de VII sacramentis, which was only added in the 12th/13th century. The 14th century binding is probably from Einsiedeln; certainly the manuscript was in the monastery library in the 17th century, as attested by the ex libris on p. 1. (ber)

Online Since: 04/09/2014

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 134(805)
Parchment · a-d + 380 + y-z pp. · 20.7 x 14.2 cm · Raetia · 9th century
Hieronymus, in Evangelia

The first part of this manuscript (pp. 2-261) contains the Gospel of Matthew by Jerome and a sermon attributed to Isidore of Seville (pp. 261-262), while the second part (pp. 263-378) contains a copy of the Expositio quattuor evangeliorum by Pseudo-Jerome. Various scribes wrote this manuscript in a pre-Carolingian minuscule which may show characteristics of Raetian script. The influence of the Raetian script can clearly be seen in several initials (p. 2, 5, 62). (ber)

Online Since: 09/23/2014

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Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 149(558)
Parchment · II + 178 + IV pp. · 23.8 x 18.2 cm · Einsiedeln and Reichenau · 10th century
Prosperi Epigrammata et Boethii Consolatio philosophiae

This 10th century manuscript of Reichenau origin contains epigrams by Prosper of Aquitaine as well as the "De consolatione philosophiae" by Boethius. (lan)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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