| 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: 54, 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 27(1195)
Parchment · 140 ff. · 15.5 x 9.5 cm · Northern Italy, Switzerland (?) · 8th/9th century and 9th century (second third)
The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24)was written by various inexpert 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.
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 38(366)
Parchment · 1 + 189 ff. · 28.5 x 23 cm · Einsiedeln · 10th century (second half, about 960-965)
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).
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 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) and 10th century (second half)
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.
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 157(372)
Parchment · 280 pp. · 29.5 x 15.8 cm · Swiss Scriptorium (?) · 8th/9th century
This manuscript contains the homilies of Gregory the Great on the prophet Ezekiel. It is written by various hands in a minucule which in general is close to the Raetian minuscule. Some researchers attribute the manuscript to a Swiss or Raetian scriptorium. A part of pages 204 and 206 and the entire page 214 are written in uncial script. The mansucript contains numerous initials with geometric and vegetal elements, similar in style to the Remedius-Sacramentary (Cod. Sang. 348). The maniculae by Heinrich von Ligerz confirm that the manuscript was in Einsiedeln in the 14th century already.
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 172(1128)
Parchment · 216 pp. · 17.1 x 14.0 cm · 1st part perhaps Reichenau; 2nd part Reims · 3rd third of the 9th century and 8th/9th century
This two-part composite manuscript contains various grammatical texts. Probably the two parts were combined when the manuscript was rebound in the 14th century; since then, it has been in the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln. The first part (2-110) was probaby copied in Reichenau in the 3rd third of the 9th century. The second part (111-215) is older and was perhaps written in Reims in the 8th/9th century. Certain scholars (Bruckner) suggest that the script of the second part may be Raetian.
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.