| 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
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. II
Parchment · 305 ff. · 29 x 19 cm · St. Gall and Reichenau (?) · 11th century
The homilies of Gregory the Great in an 11th century script, with red initials and captions. The work was already included in a 10th/11th century book catalog as being held in Pfafers, and it remained in the cloister library after the devastating fire of 1665 as well as after secularization in 1838. On the front and back flyleaves and pastedowns are fragments of the Historia ecclesiastica by Eusebius Caesariensis (9th/10th century).
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. X
Parchment · 115 ff. · 24-25 x 16.5-17 cm · Southwestern Germany · first half of the IXth century
Composite manuscript containing a contemporary version of the Versus de bello Fontanetico, a poem on the battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye on June 25, 841.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XI
Parchment · 169 ff. · 23.5-24 x 16.5 cm · Pfäfers · 10th/11th centuries
This manuscript was produced at the monastery of Pfäfers before ca. 1020 and contains the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I. A guard-leaf containing an important fragment of a Passion Play in German from the early fourteenth century has been removed during a recent restoration.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XII
Parchment · 244 ff. · 25-26 x 19 cm · IXth and Xth century
Composite manuscript of hagiographic character containing the lives of Saints Colomban, Eustacius, Gall, Otmar, Nicholas of Myre, Augustine, Meinrad, Walburga, Sigismond, Alexis, and Aper as well as a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew by Remigius of Auxerre.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XIII
Parchment · 127 ff. · 26.5–27.5 x 17–17.5 cm · southern German region and Switzerland and Lake Constance region (?) · beginning or first half of the 9th century
The Pfafers manuscript of the Vitas Patrum or Adhortationes sanctorum patrum ad profectum perfectionis monachorum was produced during the first half of the 9th century. It contains teachings of the fathers of Christian monasticism, who were extremely well received during the middle ages and had a strong influence on hagiography. This text was written by one hand and includes black, red and yellow filled initials and captions. On the front and back pastedowns are fragments of a homiliarium.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XVI
Paper · 124 ff. · 29.5 x 21.5 cm · Upper Rhine (?) · second quarter of the 15th century
Manuscript on paper from the library of the Abbey of Pfäfers, dissolved in 1838, containing the German translation by Otto of Diemeringen, widely disseminated in the late middle ages, of Jean de Mandeville's Travels. The Manuscript is illustrated with richly colored pen and ink drawings, which provide cultural and historical insights into this period.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. XXX
Parchment · 78 ff. · 24.5 x 15 cm · Churrätien · first half of the IXth century
Like Cod. Sang. 722, this manuscript contains an important, but incomplete, copy of the Lex Romana Curiensis, a private literary work in the Gallo-Franco tradition of the "breviary literature" based on the Lex Romana Visigothorum. At the end, the rhaetic sub-deacon Orsicinus signs as a copyist.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. 1
Parchment · 91 ff. · 31 x 20.5 cm · Churrätien · first quarter of the 9th century and 9th-14th centuries
The Liber viventium Fabariensis is likely the most important surviving work of Rhaetish book art. This manuscript was originally designed as an Evangelistary and richly adorned with initials, frames for canonical tables and full-page illustrations of the symbols of the four evangelists. Starting in 830 the names of monks who joined the monastic community were listed in the empty canonical table frames, together with living and deceased benefactors of the abbey. In addition to its function as evangelistary, memorial and record of the monastic brotherhood, the Liber viventium was later also used to preserve the historial records and treasure catalog of Pfäfers Abbey. Because of the legal importance of the Liber viventium up to modern times, the volume is housed in the archival collection of Pfäfers Abbey.
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Cod. Fab. 2
Parchment · 78 ff. · 28 x 19 · Southwestern Germany · 1080-1090 and about 1400 and last quarter of the 15th century
Liber Aureus, the Golden Book of Pfäfers, was originally produced in about 1080/90 as an Evangelistary, decorated with artistic portraits of the four evangelists. The free space left between the readings was used in the 14th century for the recording of "Weistümern" (judicial sentences).
St. Gallen, Stiftsarchiv (Abtei Pfäfers), Fragm. Fab. IV
Parchment · 1 f. · 17-17/5 x 13-13,5 cm · first third of the 14th century
A parchment double leaf containing a fragment of a Passion Play in German, including neumes. It can be dated to approximates the first third of the 14th century. It was likely used as a paste-down in a 14th century rebinding of the 10th/11th century Cod. Fab. XI and was cut down for this purpose, so that a portion of the text was lost. The subsequent detachment of the fragment caused an additional loss of text.