Manuscript Summary:Copies of 40 letters written by the church father Jerome, set down by a number of different scribes in the Cloister of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century in Carolingian minuscule script. Annotated in the 11th century with rich interlinear and marginal commentaries by the monk Ekkehart IV († about 1060). This codex also contains the homilies of Origen on Jerome's Latin translation of the Song of Songs as well as the work De anima by Cassiodorus.(smu)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 59.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 159
Parchment · 384 pp. · 31.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Hieronymus, epistolae; Origenes, sermones; Cassiodorus, de anima
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 159, p. 5 – Hieronymus, epistolae; Origenes, sermones; Cassiodorus, de anima (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0159)