Select manuscript from this collection: Cod. Sang. 1  Cod. Sang. 990 Cod. Sang. 994  Cod. Sang. 2135  708/855

Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
St. Gallen
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Stiftsbibliothek
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
Cod. Sang. 991
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Gemahelschaft Christi mit der gläubigen Seele
Caption:
Caption
Paper · 847 pp. · 29 x 19 cm · Convent of St. Catherine, St. Gall · 1484
Language:
Language
German
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
This folio-size manuscript contains a single text, the Gemahelschaft Christi mit der gläubigen Seele (redaction: Es spricht ain haidischer maister es sy besser und nützer), an extensive and still-unedited book of monastic edification. The anonymous author may have been an Augustinian Hermit; his readership largely consisted in female religious communities. Indeed, the present manuscript comes from such a community; based on a comparison of scripts, it was copied and dated by Angela Varnbühler, the chronicler and long-time prioress of the convent of St. Catherine in St. Gall (colophon on p. 842/843). In the run-up to the Reformation, the librarian Regula Keller sent this manuscript and another (today lost) to the women’s community in Appenzell, as reported by the letter accompanying the shipment that is pasted on p. 2. From there, the codex went to Wonnenstein Cloister, and in 1782 to the Abbey Library (ownership entry by P. Pius Kolb on p. 4). Two entries from 1584 attest that a certain Hans Bart had das Buoch gelernet (p. 1 and p. 845). The manuscript is laid out in two columns and rubricated throughout. A bookmark and a single leaf from a post-incunable breviary printed in the workshop of Erhard Ratdolt in Augsburg are inserted. Between pp. 839 and 840 many leaves have been removed (loss of text). Unadorned leather binding, contemporary with the text, with two clasps (one lost). On the wooden boards the offsets of two German-language charters are visible. (mat)
Standard description:
Standard description
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 376.
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-csg-0991 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-csg-0991)
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http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0991
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 991: Gemahelschaft Christi mit der gläubigen Seele (http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0991).
Online Since:
Online Since
09/22/2022
Additional literature:
Additional literature
Additional literature – St. Galler Bibliotheksnetz (SGBN) - Verbundkatalog
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
15th century
Dated:
Dated
1484
Binding:
Binding
15th century
With in situ fragment:
With in situ fragment
Offset
Materiality:
Materiality
Bookmark
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Simone Mengis, Schreibende Frauen um 1500. Scriptorium und Bibliothek des Dominikanerinnenklosters St. Katharina St. Gallen (Scrinium Friburgense 28), Berlin/Boston 2013, S. 341–344 (Nr. 49)

Scarpatetti, Katalog der datierten Handschriften in der Schweiz, Bd. 3, S. 88 (Textband) bzw. 183 (Abbildungsband)

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