| Country | Location, Library | Manuscripts |
|---|---|---|
| United States of America | Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art | 1 |
Number of manuscripts: 44, displayed: 1 – 20
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 17(405)
Parchment · 384 pp. · 28.1-28.5 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century (before 950)
A copy of the four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950).
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 28(1279)
Parchment · III + 518 + II pp. · 13.0 x 19.0 cm · 14th century
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> (d. ca. 1275), Johannes <de Colonia> (13th century) and Guilelmus de Mara <Lamara> (1230-ca. 1290). The contents are of Franciscan authorship, suggesting that the manuscript was produced in a Minorite cloister.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 29(878)
Parchment · 239 pp. · 20.0 x 15.8 cm · Einsiedeln or southwestern Germany · 9th-14th centuries
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.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 32(1060)
Parchment · 358 pp. · 17.5/18.0 x 13.0 cm · 10th-12th century
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).
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 40(481)
Parchment · II + 316 pp. · 26.0 x 19.0 cm · St. Gall · 10th century (before 950)
Lectionary, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950). It may have been presented by St. Gallen to Einsiedeln on the occasion of the consecration of the church at Einsiedeln in 948, together with Codex 17.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 83(76)
Parchment · 462 ff. · 34.5 x 26.0 cm · Einsiedeln · 11th century (about 1060-1075/1100)
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.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 109(447)
Parchment · II + 256 + II pp. · 27.6 x 19.8 cm · St. Gall · 11th century (second half)
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. Gallen.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 110(463)
Parchment · II + 430 + II pp. · 27.0 x 18.7 cm · St. Gall · 11th century (second half)
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.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 121(1151)
Parchment · 300 pp. · 10.5 x 16 cm · Einsiedeln · about 960-970
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.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 149(558)
Parchment · II + 178 + IV pp. · 23.8 x 18.2 cm · Einsiedeln and Reichenau · 10th century
This 10th century manuscript of Reichenau origin contains epigrams by Prosper of Aquitaine as well as the "De consolatione philosophiae" by Boethius.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 166(413)
Parchment · 349 pp. · 28.0 x 19.5 cm. · Engelberg · 12th century (1143-1197)
This manuscript contains the Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam of Ambrosius of Milan. It was produced in Engelberg as a commission for Abbot Frowin (1143-1178), a fact indicated by the dedicatory verse on 1r. It also contains three illuminated initials with the motive of tendrils generally used during Frowin’s tenure.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 169(468)
Parchment · II + 138 pp. · 25.0 x 16.5-17.0 cm · Einsiedeln and Italy · 9th/10th centuries and 10th century and 12th century
This manuscript contains works by Isidore, Hucbaldus and Bernoldus as well as the Gospel of Nicodeum, copied at various times in Italy and Einsiedeln.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 179(482)
Parchment · 193 pp. · 26.5 x 22.0 cm · Einsiedeln · 10th century (second half)
A manuscript collection containing letters of Pope Gregory the Great as well as commentaries on Boethius. The text contains both Latin glosses and numerous Old High German glosses in cryptographic script. The manuscript was written during the second half of the 10th century in Einsiedeln.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 182(414)
Parchment · 168 pp. · 29.0 x 18.5 cm · Reichenau · 9th century (first half)
This manuscript contains the Tractatus super epistolam ad Titum, Expositio in epistulam Pauli ad Philemonem and Expositio in epistulam ad Hebraeos by Alcuin. It was probably produced at the time of Reginbert in the scriptorium at Reichenau.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 191(277)
Parchment · 233 ff. · 31.8 x 23.0 cm · Northeastern France · 8th / 9th century
This collection contains, together with other texts, a collection of Canons of ecclesiastical law called the Collectio Quesnelliana. It was probably produced in a scriptorium in northeastern France and was later held by the Court Library of Charlemagne. In the 11th century it was placed in the Cologne Cathedral library, where it was annotated by Bernold von Konstanz. It was later owned by suffragan bishop of Constance Jakob Johann Mirgel (1559-1629) before making its way, together with a group of his books, to the cloister at Einsiedeln.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 206(49)
Parchment · 92 pp. · 36.2 x 27.5 cm · France (Paris?) or Flanders · 15th century (about 1430-1450)
This is an especially lovely exemplar, written in France (Paris?) or Flanders, of The Mirror of Human Salvation, or Speculum humanae salvationis. The work itself exists in over 200 manuscript copies and numerous print editions. The Mirror of Human Salvation is divided into the prefiguring of salvation (Old Testament), the story of salvation as told in the New Testament (from the Annunciation to the Judgement Day), the 7 Stations of the Passion, the 7 Sorrows and the 7 Joys of Mary. At this time, four leaves and the opening portion are missing.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 214(241)
Paper · 191 ff. · 31.3 x 22.2 cm · Lake Constance area · [14]52/[14]54/[14]55
A collection of homiletic and pastoral texts dated with the years [14]52, [14]54 and [14]55, which came to Einsiedeln from the Lake Constance area. The main work are those by Nikolaus von Dinkelsbühl: Sermones de sanctis, De tribus partibus poenitentiae, De indulgentiis, De oratione Dominica; a collection of writings in Latin by Marquard von Lindau OFM; and texts by Jordanus von Quedlinburg OESA: Sermones de communi sanctorum, Sermones ad religiosos et religiosas.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 240(641)
Parchment · A-D + 468 + Y-Z pp. · 22.0 x 16.2 cm · Engelberg · 12th century (1143-1178)
The principal text in this manuscript is the Explanatio Dominicae Orationis by Engelberg’s Abbot Frowin (†1178), who probably commissioned the volume, as indicated by the verses on the last page (468). The manuscript was probably brought to Einsiedeln at the beginning of the 17th century.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 262(972)
Parchment · a-d + 166 + y-z pp. · 19 x 15 · southern German region and Einsiedeln and St. Gall (?) · 9th/10th century
This composite manuscript fromt the 9th/10th century contains the Vita Antigoni, fragments of a so-called Collatio Alexandrini et Dindimi, a falsified letter from Seneca to the apostle Paul and Augustine's Enchiridion: De fide spe et caritate. A copy of the Concordat of Worms from 1122 was added later. Transcription took place in Einsiedeln and the southern German region, possibly in St. Gall.
Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek, Codex 266(1296)
Parchment · II + 306 pp. · 13.0 x 9.5/10.0 cm · Einsiedeln and St. Gall · 10th/11th century and 13th/14th century
This composite manuscript was produced during the 10th/11th and the 13th/14th centuries in Einsiedeln and St. Gall. It contains various selections intended for religious education, such as the lives of saints Faustinus, Jovita and Gangolf, the Benedictine Rule, sermons, a liturgical tract and De ratione temporum.