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  • Euw Anton von, Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts, Band I: Textband, St. Gallen 2008 (Monasterium Sancti Galli, Bd. 3), S. 369, Nr. 68.
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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 74-75.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 200
Manuscript title: Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum (pt. 1)
Place of origin: St Gall (Bruckner, von Euw)
Date of origin: s. IX ¾ (von Euw)
Support: Parchment, with leather and wooden binding.
Extent: 504 pp
Format: 321-326 x 243-247 mm
Collation: Marked: pp. 16-266 = I to XVIII; pp. 267-282 = XIIII (!); pp. 283-504 = XV-XXVIIII. Mostly quaternions, exceptions being pp. 49-56 (binio); 131-142, 143-154, 283-294, 295-306, 435-446, 447-458 (ternios). Mostly HFHF (Bruckner)
Condition: Strong, well made and smoothed parchment: flesh side white, hair side yellowish with some pores; some old holes.
Page layout: Single column, 29 lines per page. Written area 233-235 x 193-195 (176-177) mm. (Bruckner)
Writing and hands: By multiple hands, mid to later ninth century, some under insular influence. Black to rust brown ink. Titles in red rustics, also quadrata, uncials.
Decoration: Some initials with red braiding (Bruckner)
Binding: Bound in boards with pressed tan leather covering, s. XV. Four frets, 2 leather straps have been lost, 1 later leather strap with brass plates. A brass pin on the front cover. Later note on front cover, Cassiodorus super psalterium Prima pars (s. XV); on spine Cassiodorus in Psalterium a 1 usque ad 50 inclusive (s. XIX).
Contents:
  • 1. p. 2-504 Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus: Expositio Psalmorum [1-50] >Diuersas notas more maiorum certis locis aestimauimus affigendas< Has cum explanationibus suis subter \ad/ iunximus …–… pręstante domini reddit immunes. Explicit psalmus quinquagesimus
    Index Reference Numbers
    • CPL 900
    Editions
    • Cassiodorus. Expositio Psalmorum ed. M. Adriaen (CCSL 97). Turnhout: Brepols, 1958, p. 2-471. Critical edition but does not use this manuscript
    • Cassiodorus. In psalterium praefatio & expositio. PL 70: 9A-26A, 25B-372D. Google Books
    Translation
    • Cassiodorus: Explanation of the Psalms, trans. Patrick G. Walsh (Ancient Christian Writers 51). New York: Paulist Press, 1991.
    Bibliography
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
Origin of the manuscript: May appear in the ninth-century catalogues of St Gall (with CSG 201 and 202): ‘Item eiusdem [sc. Cassiodori] super omnes psalmos in uol. III’ [Lehmann, MBKDS, p. 76.11]; ‘Cassiodori super omnes psalmos in uol. III’ [Lehmann, MBKDS, p. 84.15] (Bruckner)
Codicological Bibliography
  • Euw, Anton von. Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts (Vol. 1). St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2008, p. 369.
  • Bruckner, Albert. Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz: St. Gallen II (Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3). Geneva: Roto-Sadag, 1938, p. 81.
  • Scherrer, Gustav. Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen. Halle: 1875, p. 71-2. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen