Parchment · 60 pp. · 22.3-22.5 x 16.1-16.4 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Augustinus, Sermones; Excerpta.
This 10th century composite manuscript produced at the Abbey of St. Gall contains the pseudo-Augustinian sermons De consolatione mortuorum, together with Augustine's sermon 172 and excerpts from the Augustinian works De cura pro mortuis gerenda, De octo Dulcitii quaestionibus and De civitate dei. (smu)
Parchment · 180 pp. · 25.3 x 18-18.5 cm · first quarter of the 9th century
Hieronymus, Commentarii in Matthaeum. De persecutione Christianorum (Ps.-Augustinus, Sermo LX ad fratres in eremo).
A copy of the exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew by the church father Jerome († 420) and his tract De persecutione Christianorum (On the Persecution of Christians), sometimes falsely attributed to Augustine as Sermon 60 of the Sermones ad fratres in eremo. The codex was made during the first quarter of the 9th century, probably not at the Abbey of St. Gall. (sno)
Parchment · 294 pp. · 25-25.2 x 16.6-16.8 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Augustinus, de X chordis · Alcuinus, de virtutibus et vitiis · Sermones anonymi.
This composite manuscript from the beginning of the 9th century, made up of two parts, was written at the Abbey of St. Gall and remains in its original Carolingian binding. The first part contains two works by the church father Augustine, the sermon De decem chordis and the text De disciplina christiana, as well as the work Adversus quinque haereses by Bishop Quodvultdeus of Carthage († 454). The second part contains, among various other short texts, a copy of the epitaph of Alcuin of York († 804), his book about virtues and vices De virtutibus et vitiis, dedicated to Duke Wido of Nantes, two sermons by Augustine as well as the so-called Dicta Bonifatii. Glosses were added here and there in both parts of the manuscript by the monk Ekkehart IV. during the first half of the 11th century; the codex shows signs of use through the 16th century. (smu)
Parchment · 276 pp. · 24.5-24.6 x 16.2-16.4 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus de doctrina christiana, 1. IV.
An important copy of Augustine's work De doctrina christiana in terms of textual history, written during the second half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. In the 1930s fragments of the oldest Vulgate manuscript version of the gospels, from the 5th century, were removed from the binding of this manuscript. These fragments are now found, together with additional fragments of the same manuscript as well as fragments of other texts, in Cod. Sang. 1395. (smu)
Parchment · 320 pp. · 25.5 x 19.5 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 10th/11th centuries
Composite manuscript containing true works of the Church Father Augustine and works falsely attributed to him
Copies of various works by Augustine and Pseudo-Augustinus, including De fide ad Petrum seu de regula fidei by Fulgentius von Ruspe, the works De divinatione daemonum and De natura boni by Augustine, numerious letters of Augustine, and selections from Augustine’s work De perfectione iustitiae hominis. Incudes glosses by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. (smu)
Parchment · 206 + 2 pp. · 25 x 16.5 cm · 12th and 14th century
Augustinus, Sermones
This manuscript is a collection of sermons by the church father Augustine, written by a 12th century hand. Two fragments are bound in at the end without pagination; they contain verses, exempla, allegories and similar short texts, written in a 14th century hand which also added numerous marginalia. (nie)
Parchment · 414 pp. · 23.5 x 15 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 9th and 10th century
Composite manuscript containing books of pennance (Poenitentiale Capitula Iudiciorum, Poenitentiale Theodori, Poenitentiale Vinniani, Poenitentiale Sangallense simplex, Poenitentiale Sangallense tripartitum), texts by the Church Fathers, and more
This five-part composite manuscript contains, among other items, a number of books of pennance (Poenitentiale Capitula Iudiciorum, Poenitentiale Theodori, Poenitentiale Vinniani, Poenitentiale Sangallense simplex, Poenitentiale Sangallense tripartitum) and writings of the Church Fathers Augustine (including selections from De doctrina christiana, De patientia, Sermo 64 ad fratres in eremo), Gregory the Great, Cyprian, and Gregory of Nazianzus. (sno)
Parchment · 316 pp. · 25 x 19 cm · St. Gall · 10th century / 12th century / 9th/10th century
Augustinus, Expositio quarundam propositionum ex epistola ad Romanos; Augustinus, epistolae ad Galatos expositio; Lanfranc, Contra haeresim Berengarii; Hermas, Liber pastoris
This composite manuscript from the monastery ofSt. Gall consists of three originally independent parts. It contains 1) a 10th century copy of the exegesis of the Epistles to the Romans and to the Galatians by the Church Father Augustine; 2) a 12th century copy of the Contra haeresim cuiusdam Berengarii by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury († 1079); as well as 3) a copy of the book "The Shepherd of Hermas" (Liber pastoris) by St. Hermas (2nd century A.D.), written in the second half of the 9th or the first half of the 10th century. (smu)
Parchment · 260 pp. · 24.5-25 x 19-19.3 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus de utilitate credendi ad Honoratum, de natura boni, de VIII quæstionibus V. T., et alia.
Manuscript collection of Patristic works with selections from the works of Augustine (Retractationes, De octo quaestionibus ex veteri testamento, Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate), Paschasius Radbertus (Epistola ad Paulam et Eustochium, erroneously attributed to the Church father Jerome), and Gregory the Great, in addition to the Life of the Martyr Quintinus, produced in the second half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 138 pp. · 27-27.5 x 22.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustine, Retractationes
Copy of the Retractationes (Revisions) by the church father Augustine (354-430), produced in the middle of the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. In the Retractationes composed near the end of his life, around 426, Augustine provides a chronologically ordered history of the origins of 93 works he wrote over the course of his life, together with critiques of those works. (smu)
Parchment · 396 pp. · 27.5 x 18.2 cm · partially in St. Gall · 9th century
Augustine, De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum; Selections from the Quaestiones evangeliorum
A copy of the explication by Augustine of the Sermon on the Mount (De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum) together with selections from his Quaestiones evangeliorum, made in the 9th century. Unlike the second part of the manuscript, the copy of the explication of the Sermon on the Mount in the first part was not made at the Abbey of St. Gall. The composite manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)
Parchment · 166 pp. · 30 x 23 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · after 850
Composite manuscript containing works by the Church Father Augustine, particularly sermons
This codex produced at the Abbey of St. Gall, probably in the time of Abbot Grimald (841-872) or Hartmut (872-883) sometime after 850, contains numerous sermons and selections from sermons by Augustine; in addition it contains excerpts from other works written by Augustine, such as the Enarrationes in psalmos, the Tractatus in Iohannis evangelium and the Confessiones. The manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)
Parchment · 304 pp. · 27.8 x 22 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 840/870
Augustinus, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus; Sermo 101; Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum
Copies of three works by Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus (incomplete), Sermo 101 and – in an excellent version – Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum. On page 1 there is a pen test: Omnis homo primum bonum vinum poni. (smu)
Parchment · 210 pp. · ca. 31.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus de baptismo contra Donatistas, libri VII.
This copy of the work "De baptismo" (On Baptism) by the Church father Augustine (d. 430) is significant in terms of textual history; it was produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 384 pp. · 31.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Hieronymus, epistolae; Origenes, sermones; Cassiodorus, de anima
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)
Parchment · 592 pp. · 30.1-30.2 x 22.2-22.3 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus in Heptateuchum, libri VII.
This copy of the commentaries by the Church father Augustine on the first seven books of the Old Testament (the Heptateuch: "Quaestiones in Heptateuchum libri VII") is among the most significant copies in terms of textual history; it was produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 354 pp. · 32.1 x 25 cm · St. Gall · 845/870
Augustine, Commentary on Genesis
A copy of Augustine's commentary on Genesis De Genesi ad litteram libri XII, written during the second third of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. Contains numerous marginal and interlinear glosses. (smu)
Parchment · 374 pp. · 31.7 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · around 850
First volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine
The first of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume contains readings of Psalms 1 through 35, written by many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. Includes a large number of glosses, including some in Old High German by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV from the period after 1000. (smu)
Parchment · 500 pp. · 32.4 x 24.9 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Third volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine
This third of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 51-76, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century under Abbot Grimald (841-872). (smu)
Parchment · 404 pp. · 32.5 x 24 cm · St. Gall · around 850
The fourth volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine
The fourth of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 77 through 100, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall under Abbot Grimald (841-872). Includes assorted later glosses from the first half of the 11th century by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV. (smu)
Parchment · 302 pp. · 31.7 x 24.4 cm · St. Gall · around 850
The second volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine
The second of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 36 through 50, written in many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. During the first half of the 20th century a strip containing textual elements of the Edictum Rothari(Cod. Sang. 730) was recovered from Codex 165. On page 278 is a scribal annotation (Uuaningus scripsit) by a monk named Waningus. (smu)
Parchment · 434 pp. · 32 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Fifth volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine
The fifth of a group of originally six volumes containing Augustine's commentary on the Psalms (the sixth volume was missing as early as 1461). Includes some explanatory notes by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV, including two in Old High German. (sno)
Parchment · 399 pp. · 35.3 x 27.1 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Walahfridus Strabo, Commentarius in psalmos I-LXXVI
A copy of Reichenau man of letters and Abbot Walahfrid Strabo's commentary on Psalms 1-76. On the first pages of this copy are letters from Jerome to Paul (Ep. 30; De alphabeto Hebraeorum) and to Marcella (Ep. 38; De diapsalmate), written with great care at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century. The second part of this commentary on the Psalms by Walahfrid Stabo (on Psalms 77-150) is found in Cod. Sang. 313. (smu)
Parchment · 408 pp. · 30.5 x 20.5-21 cm · 9th century
Augustini sermones . Ratperti cantilena de S. Gallo Ekkehardo interprete . Ekkehart, Ad picturas in claustro
The main content of this codex is a copy of sermons on the Gospel of John by the church father Augustine, produced sometime after 800. In the front is a Latin version with neumes of the now lost Old High German "Galluslied" (the translation into Latin was done by the monk Ekkehart IV in the first half of the 11th century), originally composed by the monk Ratpert before the year 900. In the back are verses by Ekkehart IV about the paintings in the Romanesque cloister walk at St. Gall. Includes textual glosses by Ekkehart IV. (smu)
Parchment · 380 pp. · 30.1 x 21 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Augustini sermones (XXII-LIV) in evang. Johannis
A copy of Augustine's sermons 22 through 54 on the Gospel of John (In Iohannis Evangelium tractatus), written during the third quarter of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 340 pp. · 30 x 22.5 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus, De consensu evangelistarum
This copy of the work De consensu evangelistarum libri quattuor by the Church Father Augustine is important to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 402 pp. · 33.5 x 22 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 10th century
Assorted works by Augustine, including De baptismo contra Donatistas
Copies of Augustine’s sermons 46 and 47 as well as his De baptismo contra Donatistas (important to textual history), De peccatorum meritis et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinam, De unico baptismo contra Petilianum ad Constantium (important to textual history) and De spiritu et littera. (smu)
Parchment · 274 pp. · 33.4 x 27.5 cm · St. Gallen (?) · second half of the 9th century
Augustinus, Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II
A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written during the second half of the 9th century, probably at the Abbey of St. Gall. In the year 2009, a strip containing a portion of text from the Vetus-Latina version of the Gospels from the early 5th century was detached from page 258 of this codex; it is now included with other fragments from the same original manuscript in Cod. Sang. 1394 (pp. 51-88). (smu)
Parchment · 194 pp. · 35.5 x 27.5 cm · Mainz and St. Gall (?) · 9th century
Epistolae Augustini . Galluslied
This codex consists mainly of copies of letters written by the church father Augustine († 430), produced in the second half of the 9th century, possibly in Mainz. A small section at the front and some pages at the end, however, were produced in the 11th century, during the tenure of Ekkehart IV († um 1060), in the Cloister of St. Gall; these sections contain a Latin version of the Old High German "Galluslied" (originally written by the St. St. Gall monk Ratpert), translated by Ekkehart IV, and various excerpts of mathematical and astronomical content. (smu)
Parchment · 360 pp. · 38 x 28.2 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus, Epistola 174 (ad Aurelium); De trinitate libri XV
This is a copy, produced in St. Gall in the 9th century, of De trinitate libri XV by the Church Father Augustine. His letter to Aurelius (letter 174) serves as a preface to the work. The manuscript remains in its original binding and contains several corrections by the St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV from the 11th century. On p. 356 there is a pen sketch of a man with sword and shield; an almost identical figure can also be found in Cod. Sang. 276, p. 271 (here etched with a stylus). (sno)
Parchment · 476 pp. · 42 x 28-28.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Eugippius, Excerpts from Augustine . Commentaries by Ekkehart IV.
A copy of the excerpts of Eugippius († after 533) from the works of Augustine, very popular during the middle ages, produced in the Cloister of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century. In the first half of the 11th century this text was carefully studied by the monk Ekkehart IV, who added numerous remarks and commentaries to it. On the inner side of the back cover are sketches by Ekkehart IV of a carafe-shaped drinking vessel and three accompanying short verses about his fellow monk Crimalt or Crimolt, who was fond of a drink. (smu)
Parchment · 462 pp. · 37.5 x 29 cm · Auxerre · middle of the 9th century
Augustinus, De civitate dei
Incomplete copy of De civitate dei by Augustine (Books I-XIV), probably written around the middle of the 9th century in Auxerre in the sphere of Bishop Heribald (cf. p. 452-453). The manuscript was in St. Gall around 860 already, where it was listed, with a Carolingian binding, in the oldest library catalog (Cod. Sang. 728). (dor)
Parchment · 414 pp. · 39.7 x 29.9 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Augustine, De civitate dei, books 11-22
A copy of books 11 through 22 of Augustine's work De civitate dei (The City of God), written in the middle of the 9th century by many hands at the Abbey of St. Gall. Includes numerous glosses by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV from the first half of the 11th century. On the last page are pen tests, including the verse, frequently repeated in St. Gall, Adnexique globum zephyri freta kanna secabant, which contains all letters of the Latin alphabet. (smu)
Parchment · 242 pp. · 16-16.5 x 24-24.5 cm · St. Gall · first third of the 9th century
Augustinus, In epistolam Iohannis ad Parthos tractatus X
Commentary on the Epistle of John by the Church Father Augustine. This copy was produced in St. Gall around the first third of the 9th century and remains in its original binding. On p. 1-4 and 239-241, it also contains readings for the liturgy. (sno)
Parchment · 72 pp. · 17.9-18 x 25.9-26 cm · Cloister of St. Gall (?) · early 9th century
Pseudo-Augustinus, Sermons
The sermons Homiliae XVIII in Apocalypsin, falsely attributed to Augustine, in a manuscript that was partly incorrectly bound and written by various hands, probably in the Monastery of St. Gall. (dor)
Parchment · 266 pp. · 29-30 x 23.5-24.5 cm + 25.5 x 19 cm · St. Gall · 10th and 11th century
Prosper of Aquitaine . Augustine . Halitgar of Cambrai
This manuscript consists of two parts: the first part contains a commentary on Psalms 100-150 (Expositio psalmorum) by Prosper of Aquitaine in a copy from the second half of the 9th century. The second part contains, in addition to selections from the works of Augustine and the first part of the "Bussbuch" (Book of Penances) by Halitgar of Cambrai, mainly computistical-astronomical texts, schemata and tables as well as a glossary of terms. On page 242: a sketch of a small, simple T-O world map. Manuscript copy produced by the Cloister of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 194 pp. · 25.9-26 x 18.3-18.5 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Prosper, de activa et contemplativa vita libri III.
A copy of the work De vita contemplativa by the Gallic priest Julianus Pomerius (5th c.), incorrectly ascribed to Prosper of Aquitaine, produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall, in part by the monk Rihpertus, who included his name in a secret script. (smu)
Parchment · 320 pp. · 25.5 x 21.5-22 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Gaius Iulius Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium
A 9th century St. Gall copy of the Collectanea rerum memorabilium, which was very popular during the middle ages, by the Roman author Gaius Iulius Solinus. It is a compilation of oddities and curiosities, derived mainly from the natural histories of Pliny and the geographical descriptions of Pomponius Mela. In addition, this codex contains works by Prosper of Aquitaine and the sermon entitled De bono mortis by the church father Ambrose. (smu)
Parchment · 422 pp. · 29 x 19.5 cm · Luxeuil (?) · around 700
Maximus of Turin, Sermons
Sermons of Bishop Maximus of Turin († between 408-423): one of the most important manuscript copies from the time around 700, possibly produced in the Cloister of Luxeuil in Burgundy, in a Merovingian Uncial script. It is among the oldest books held by the Abbey Library still preserved in their original forms and bindings. (smu)
Parchment · 282 pp. · 23.5 x 16 cm · St. Gall · 8th century
Eucherii Instructiones; Isidori liber differentiarum; S. Hieronymus super Daniel.
Copy of the first book of the work Instructiones by Eucherius of Lyon († about 450) as well as a small portion of his work Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae, the Libri differentiarum by Isidore of Seville, and the commentary of Jerome on the Old Testament book of Daniel, written in an Alemannic minuscule script at the Abbey of St. Gall near the end of the 8th century. This codex, still in its original Carolingian binding, represents the base manuscript of the commentary by Jerome. (smu)
Gallic Bishops' letters from late antiquity: unique to this manuscript - the correspondences of Bishop Desiderius of Cahors (about 590 - 655), and Ruricius of Limoges (about 445 -511). A frequent correspondent: Bishop Faustus of Riez (about 410 - 511). On pages 1 and 37 the manuscript contains the so-called “St. Galler Bienensegen”, the oldest known invocation for bees in the Latin language. (smu)
Parchment · 358 pp. · 21.4 x 14.4 cm; 21.2 x 14.1-14.2 cm · St. Gall · 9th century, 12th century
Hieronymus de viris illustribus, Gennadius de viris illustribus, Cl. Claudianus, Carmina, et alia
A copy of the catalog of authors assembled by the Church father Jerome (347-420) De viris illustribus (a list of 135 Christian authors from Simon Peter to Jerome himself) together with a list presented in the catalog of authors by Gennadius of Marseille (d. 496) De viris illustribus, with biographies of more than 90 important Christian authors of that time. Produced in the 9th century, though not at the Abbey of St. Gall; already listed in the holdings of St. Gall by 1000. (smu)
Parchment · 180 + II pp. · 20.5 x 16 cm · 14th century
Collection of exempla; Treatise on the seven sacraments
The manuscript consists of two codicological units brought together in a fifteenth-century binding. The first unit (pp. 1-132) is copied in an older Gothic cursive; the second (pp. 133-180) in a textualis, and both date from the fourteenth century. The labels glued to the back inside cover and on the spine give as the title of the work: Fulgentius de virtutib[us], a title confirmed by a note written on a leaf added in the back of the volume: bellus differentiarum Fulgentii. Only two pages remain from this text (pp. 97a-98b), which is brought together with three other collections of exempla: Robert Holcot’s Moralitates (pp. 1a-97a), the Declamationes Senecae moralisatae (pp. 99a-115a) and the Enigmata Aristotelis moralizata (pp. 115b-120b). This combination of four texts, which Nigel Palmer called the Compilatio exemplorum anglicorum, circulated predominantly in Germany and in Central Europe. The first part ends with tables and an alphabetical index (pp. 121a-132b). The second codicological unit contains an anonymous treatise on the seven sacraments (pp. 134a-180b). (rou)
Palimpsest-manuscript of the oldest known texts of the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor Prophets
An impressive palimpsest-manuscript (with pages containing duplicate texts) of the oldest known texts of the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor Prophets. Upper script in Retro-Romanish minuscule from the time around 800 (from Rätien or St. Gall): sermons of Caesarius of Arles (470/71-542), further homilies and sermons, tracts, prayers and lessons. Lower, sometimes difficult to read script in Roman half uncial from northern Italy: fragmentarily preserved Latin bible texts from the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. (smu)
Parchment · II + 233 + IV pp. · 18 x 12 cm; 24 x 18 cm; 17.7 x 12 cm · southern France or Spain; St. Gall · around 700 and first half of the 8th century
Composite manuscript; palimpsest
Early homiletic manuscript collection from the monastery of St. Gall, written on stiff, poorly smoothed, unevenly cut and damaged parchment, already previously used, overwritten in the first half of the 8th century with the sermons of Caesarius of Arles and the Synonyma of Isidore of Seville. Underlying script (Merovingian): a significant copy of the Old Testament Books of Wisdom, written in about 700 in southern France or Spain. This is among the oldest books preserved by the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 88 pp. · 21 x 14-14.2 x cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Ferrandus diaconus de duce religioso.
A copy of a tract by the north African theologian Fulgentius Ferrandus (second half of the 6th century) in letter form, addressed to Count Reginus, with a collection of rules for conducting a Christlike life. This copy was made at the Abbey of St. Gall in about 800. (smu)
Parchment · 390 pp. · 21.5 x 15 cm · second third of the 9th century
Educational manuscript: poems of Venantius Fortunatus; Aenigmata (riddles) of a poet named Symphosius or Symposius.
Educational manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall, produced in the second third of the 9th century; contains mainly the poems (Carmina) of the early Christian Merovingian poet Venantius Fortunatus († 600), with four pattern poems on the Cross, as well as a copy of the Aenigmata (riddles) of a poet named Symphosius or Symposius. (smu)
Parchment · 398 pp. · 25.5 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century and 10th century
Composite manuscript, contains, among other items,Dictys Cretensis, De excidio Troiae historia and Dares Phrygius, Historia de excidio Troiae.
This composite manuscript, of particular significance in terms of textual history study, consists of at least four distinct parts, written during the 9th and 10th centuries, primarily in the Cloister of St. Gall. The manuscript volume contains, among other items, a Latin prose narrative about the Trojan war from a Greek point of view (De excidio Troiae historia), generally associated with the pseudonym Dictys Cretensis; the 5th century "Troja-Roman" or Trojan epic (Historia de excidio Troiae) published under the pseudonym Dares Phrygius; a copy of the work De spiritalis historiae gestis by Avitus of Vienna; poems by Salomon, Abbot-Bishop of St. Gall (890-920) dedicated to Dado of Vienna, and the Carmen paschale by the Latin-Christian poet Sedulius (5th century). On page 122 is an illustration of the labyrinth of the Minotaur in Knossos on Crete. (smu)
Parchment · 150 + II pp. · 21.3-21.4 x 14.6-14.9 cm · St. Gall (?) · 10th century
Avitus Viennensis: Libelli de spiritalis historiae gestis, Versus de consolatoria castitatis laude; Libellus cuiusdam sapientis et ut fertur beati Columbani
A copy of the works Libelli de spiritalis historiae gestis and Versus de consolatoria castitatis laude by Alcimus Avitus von Vienne (d. 518), produced in the 10th century at the Abbey of St. Gall (?), includes pen tests as well as Latin and Old High German glosses. (smu)
Parchment · 515 pp. · 33.5 x 25 cm · St. Gall · first quarter of the 11th century
Homiliae XL in evangelia
An exceptionally fine copy of the 40 homilies by Pope Gregory the Great on the Gospels. Written and illuminated with gold and minium initials in the monastery of St. Gall ca. 1000. (smu)
Parchment · 470 pp. · 35.8 × 26.1 cm · unknown provenance, possibly France · 10th century
Odo of Cluny, Gregorii M. expositio libri Job in compendium redacta
Gregorii M. expositio libri Job ab Odone Cluniacensi in compendium redacta. Odo of Cluny’s (Abbot 927-942) adaptation of Gregory the Great’s commentary on the Book of Job. The ornamental initials of the manuscript, which was not created in St. Gall, stylistically indicate the 8th century. (dor)
Parchment · 324 pp. · 35.5 x 27 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Moralia in Iob (Pars I, Lib. I-V)
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (commentary on Job): commentary on Job 1-5 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 1 of a six-volume series. (smu)
Parchment · 327 pp. · 35.5 x 27 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Moralia in Iob (Pars II, Lib. VI-X)
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (commentary on Job): commentary on Job 6-10 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 2 of a six-volume series. (smu)
Parchment · 278 pp. · 35.5 x 27 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Moralia in Iob (Pars V, Lib. XXIII-XXVII)
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Hiob (Commentary on Job): commentary on Job 23-27 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 5 of a six-volume series. (smu)
Parchment · 472 pp. · 35 x 27 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Moralia in Iob (Pars VI, Lib. XXVIII-XXXV)
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Hiob (Commentary on Job): commentary on Job 28-35 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 6 of a six-volume series. (smu)
Parchment · 254 pp. · 28.7 x 19.2 cm · St. Gall · around 800
Gregory the Great, Moralia in Hiob, Lib. 32–35
Copy of books 32 to 35 of Pope Gregory the Great’s Moralia in Hiob, written in Alemannic minuscule at the monastery ofSt. Gall toward the end of the 8th century. (smu)
Parchment · 330 pp. · 24.5 x 17 cm · St. Gall · around 800
Gregory the Great, Homiliae in Ezechielem XIII–XXII
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s homilies 13 to 22 on the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel, written at the monastery ofSt. Gall toward the end of the 8th century in a “gleichmässigen, breiten, gut proportionierten kalligraphischen älteren St. Galler Minuskel” (Bruckner) [uniform, wide, well-proportioned calligraphic older St. Gall minuscule] . The beginning of each homily is decorated with small colored initials. (smu)
Parchment · 180 pp. · 26.5 x 17.5 cm · Italy / St. Gallen · 5th century (lower script) / 8th century (upper script)
Palimpsest Manuscript: Divinae institutiones by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius; the Dialogs of Gregory the Great etc.
Palimpsest Manuscript with texts from the 8th (upper script band) and 5th (lower script band) centuries. The manuscript consists of a fragmentary copy of great importance in the field of textual study, from Italy, written in Roman Uncial script, containing passages from books 1 through 6 of the work Divinae institutiones (Divine Instructions) by Roman author Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius (about 250 - 325) made in the 5th century. To these the Dialogs of Gregory the Great and shorter theological texts by Augustine, Isidore of Seville and additional (mostly unknown) authors were added in the 8th century, probably in St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 84 pp. · 20.5 x 14 cm · France, North-eastern · around 700
Gregorii M. Dialogi libri IV
42 fragmentary leaves containing an extremely early copy of portions of the four books of the Dialogs of the church father Gregory the Great, produced in north-eastern France in a Merovingian chancel script from the time around 700. Additional fragments from this Dialog manuscript can be found in the Zentralbibliothek (Central Library) Zürich (Ms. C 184) and in St. Paul in Lavanttal. (smu)
Parchment · 417 pp. · 29.5 × 20.5 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 10th century
Gregorius Magnus, Dialogi
A carefully written manuscript of the Dialogi of Gregorius Magnus (p. 2-417). P. 1 contains a table of contents and pen tests with neumes. Decorated intials on p. 2, 78, 156, 279. The manuscript contains four Alemannic textual glosses. It was probably read from during meals and shows signs of heavy usage, especially in Book II (the life of Benedict). (dor)
Parchment · 259 pp. · 29.5-30 x 19 cm · around 800
Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis
The Book of Pastoral Care (Regula Pastoralis) by Gregory the Great, St. Gall copy dating from around 800, bound in a splendid enamel binding from Limoges dating from around 1210/30. (smu)
Parchment · 342 pp. · 26 x 16 cm · St. Gall · late 8th century and early 9th century
Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis; St. Gall Botanicus; St. Gall Bestiary
Manuscript compilation from the late 8th and early 9th centuries, opening with the oldest extant St. Gall copy of the Regula Pastoralis of Gregory the Great from the last third of the 8th century, followed by a medical-pharmaceutical compendium. The latter, parts of it badly bound, consists of the folded reference manual of a wandering physician from northern Italy, the so-called St. Gall Botanicus, and the St. Gall Bestiary. (smu)
Parchment · 196 pp. · 19.4-19.5 x 26.3-26.6 cm · Cloister of St. Gall (?) · end of the 9th century
Gregorius Magnus, Regula pastoralis
Incomplete copy of the widely distributed Book of Pastoral Care Regula pastoralis by Pope Gregory the Great (590–604), written by several hands in Carolingian minuscule toward the end of the 9th century, probably in the Monastery of St. Gall. Various pages were already missing around 1553/64. The manuscript contains numerous Old High German glosses and several Latin glosses, which were added in St. Gall. At the very front, on a page with pen trials, a skillful hand from the late 10th century wrote the hymnFelix mater Constantia in honor of Pelagius, patron saint of the city of Constance. (smu)
Parchment · 234 pp. · 22 x 15.8 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, carefully written by a practiced hand at the monastery ofSt. Gall around the middle of the 9th century. The manuscript contains a great number of glosses in Latin and Old High German made by quill and stylus. (smu)
Parchment · 360 pp. · 14.2-14.3 x 19.8 cm · 10th century
Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis
Copy of Pope Gregory the Great’s Regula pastoralis, written by a variety of hands in the 10th century at an unknown scriptorium, probably not in St. Gall. In the first half of the 20th century, several 5th century fragments were removed from the binding of this manuscript. (smu)
Parchment · 397 pp. · 20.5 x 12.5 cm · Müstair? Burgundy? Switzerland? · 750/800
Collection of patristic manuscripts: among others Gregory the Great, Homiliae in evangelia
Manuscript compilation from the second half of the 8th century, written and decorated with several extraordinary initials, possibly at a “Swiss center under Burgundian or Irish influence” (Bruckner) or instead “in western Alemannia or in eastern Burgundy” (Bischoff), perhaps also in Müstair. The manuscript contains large parts of - but not in full - Pope Gregory the Great’s († 604) homilies on the Gospels (Homiliae in evangelia), as well as excerpts from authentic and inauthentic works by Augustine († 430) and Caesarius of Arles († 542). (smu)
Parchment · 148 pp. · 17-18 x 13-13.5 cm · probably Eastern France · second third of the 9th century
Isidore of Seville, Liber officiorum
De ecclesiasticis officiis by Isidore of Seville (p. 2-134), at the end of the volume a Benedictio Crucis (p. 135), a commentary on the baptismal rite Primitus paganus (p. 137-139), then Capitula e canonibus excerpta (p. 139–142), and finally a rhythmic prayer to St. Gall (p. 146/147), added in the 13th century at the Monastery of St. Gall. A simple manuscript for regular use in a handy size, in St. Gall at least since the High Middle Ages. (dor)
Parchment · 138 pp. · 19.5 x 14 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Ordo iudicii in mensura; Lectiones de Sancta Trinitate; Isidore's Synonyma; Pseudo-Sisbert of Toledo's Penitential works
Produced in the 12th century in St. Gall, this manuscript contains some liturgical and religious texts, a list of abbots of St. Gall, the Synonyma by Isidore of Seville (ca. 556-636) and three penitential works, namely the Exhortatio poenitendi, Lamentum poenitentiae and Oratio pro correptione uitae, nowadays considered as spurious works of Sisbert, bishop of Toledo at the end of 7th c. (can)
Parchment · 222 pp. · 16-16.5 x 23 cm · St. Gall (?) · first third of the 9th century
Isidorus, Liber differentiarum II; Augustinus, Enchiridion ad Laurentium de fide spe et caritate
This is a copy, probably produced in St. Gall in the first third of the 9th century, of writings by Isidore of Seville (Book 2 of the Liber differentiarum) and by the Church Father Augustine (Enchiridion ad Laurentium de fide spe et caritate; parts of some chapters are missing). The manuscript remains in its original binding. (sno)
Parchment · 478 pp. · 25 x 15.3-16 cm · St. Gall · between 760 and 797
Manuscript compilation: wide variety of different texts about synonymy, Exegetics, computation, healing arts, hagiography
Manuscript compilation from the monastery of St. Gall, written out in early Alemanian Minuscule script between 760 and 797 with a wide variety of different texts about synonymy (Isidore of Seville, Differentiae), Exegetics (Eucherius of Lyon, Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae), computation, healing arts, hagiography (for example the oldest version of the life stories of the patron saints of Zürich, Felix and Regula), etc. (smu)
Papyrus · 44 pp. · 18 x 14 cm · southern France · after 650
Isidori Synonyma II, Humilia ad monachos, Sermo Eucherii
The sole papyrus manuscript held by the Abbey Library of St. Gall. The 23 pages, written after 650 in southern France, contain the closing of the second chapter of the Synonyma of Isidore of Seville as well as two exhortations aimed at monks. After being preserved over a very long period in a wooden case, these 23 pages were mounted between two glass plates in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin in 1899/1900. (smu)
Parchment · 276 pp. · 24 x 14-14.5 cm · Northern Italy (Monza o Verona?) · 8th-9th century
Isidorus, Libri Sententiarum (abbrev.), De Officiis (excerpta); etc.
This manuscript contains a collection of Patristic texts with selections from works by Isidore of Seville (d. 636; Sententiae and De officiis), Gregory the Great (d. 604; Homiliae in evangelia) and Augustine (Sermones, most of them not actually written by Augustine, but ascribed to him), a list of regions and cities where remains of the apostles may be found, and selections from an anonymous commentary on the four gospels (only the commentaries on the gospels of Matthew and John are included), produced in about 800 or shortly before, not in the Abbey of St. Gall, but in northern Italy, probably in Monza or Verona. (smu)
Parchment · 441 pp. · 26 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 8th - 9th century
Isidorus, Sententiae
This copy of the Sententiae by the church father Isidore of Seville is important to textual history; it was produced in about 800, probably in the Abbey of St. Gall, and expanded in the course of the 9th century. The Sententiae are regarded as one of the most important works by Isidore of Seville. (smu)
Parchment · 571 pp. · 27 x 16-16.5 cm · St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?) · around 800
Manuscript compilation: texts and excerpts from the works of Isidore of Seville, Augustine, Caesarius of Arles, Defensor (Liber scintillarum), Jerome, Gregory the Great, Eucherius (Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae) etc.
A manuscript compilation produced outside of St. Gall in about 800, written and illuminated unusually colorfully with numerous small initials, possibly at the Cloister of St. Denis near Paris. It consists of a large number of texts and excerpts, especially from the works of Isidore of Seville (Liber Sententiarum, Liber Differentiarum, Etymologiae), but also including texts by Augustine, Caesarius of Arles, Defensor (Liber scintillarum), Jerome, Gregory the Great, Eucherius (Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae) and many other authors. Near the end is an incomplete copy of the life story of St. Dionysius. (smu)
Parchment · 378 pp. · 27 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · around 880-890
Isidorus, Etymologiae, Books I-X
A careful copy of books I to X of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville († 636), written shortly before the year 900 in the monastery of St. Gall. This manuscript forms a unity with Cod. Sang. 232. (smu)
Parchment · 331 pp. · 27 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · around 880-890
Isidorus, Etymologiae, Books XI-XX
A careful copy of books XI to XX of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville († 636) written shortly before the year 900 in the monastery of St. Gall. On a flyleaf from the early 12th century: "St. Galler Glauben und Beichte I" with a short confession, a plea for indulgence, an indulgence formula for the use of a priest and the Creed in Old High German. (smu)
Parchment · 220 pp. · 25.5-25.9 x 17.6-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Isidorus, Etymologiæ, liber VI- VIII, XII-XV.
A copy of books VI through VIII and XII through XV of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville (d. 636), copied from a northern Italian model at the Abbey of St. Gall in or shortly after 800. (smu)
Paper · II + 268 + II pp. · 20 x 14.5 cm · 14th century
Guilelmus Britonis, Vocabularius biblicus
This paper manuscript contains Guilelmus Britonis’ Vocabularius biblicus, a text composed between 1250 and 1270. It contains around 2,500 entries for words from the Bible (inc., p. 1a: Difficiles studeo partes quas biblia gestas…). The words are arranged strictly according to alphabetical order. Exception for the A written in red ink (p. 1), the initials of the lemmata are not executed, although their indications in the manner of running titles should have helped readers to find their way around. The text is widely diffused, being preserved in at least 130 copies (Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie, ed. L. Daly & B. Daly, Padova 1975). The current volume, dating from the fourteenth century, entered the possession of the priest Heinrich Lütenrieter in 1402, as the upper inside cover: Anno etc. m. cccc° 2°. Ego Hainricus Lütenrieter presbyter emi hunc librum lib. Gallen. [?] a domino Nicolao Mündli. The seal of the library of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 267b) attests that this manuscript belonged to the Abbey of St. Gall by 1553-1564 at the latest. (rou)
Parchment · 281 pp. · 28.5-29 x 22 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Isidorus, Etymologiarum liber XI- XX.
St. Gall copy of books XI through XX of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville from the second half of the 9th century. Contains (on page 89) a famous and beautifully drawn early medieval world map (terrae orbis, T-O, or Noachid map) that serves as an illustration for the description of the continents . (smu)
Parchment · 328 pp. · 29.5 x 20.5-21.5 cm · after 800
Isidore's Etymology in 20 books
A copy of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville from the time after 800. Most probably not written in the monastery of St. Gall. In the front, on a page with pen trials, a faded and much studied early medieval map of the world. The encyclopedia written by Isidore of Seville in the early 7th century is one of the most read and most quoted books of the Middle Ages. (smu)
Parchment · 494 pp. · 29.5 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · 760-780
Collected works: Etymological dictionary / excerpts from Genesis / Dicta Winitharii / Sent. I, 8 and 10 / De natura rerum / Excerpts from Etymolog. IX, 2 / De eccles. dogmatibus / Excerpts from Kings and prophets
Manuscript collection by Winithar with illustrations (the oldest from St. Gall) of Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum. (smu)
Parchment · 258 pp. · 29.8-30 x 20.2-20.4 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus in Pentateuchum. Lib. Judicum, Ruth, Regum I-IV.
A copy of the Commentaries of Isidore of Seville on various books of the Old Testament (Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum), produced during the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 308 pp. · 30.7-31 x 20.5-20.8 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus. Proœmia in V. et N. T., de vita et obitu sanctorum.
A copy of a collection of texts by Isidore of Seville (d. 636), including De natura rerum, produced in the women's cloister of Chelles on the Marne east of Paris in, or shortly after 800. The copy of the work De natura rerum in this manuscript includes a very simple world map (Mappa mundi) as well as a so-called “Knopfkarte” (a chart composed of multiple connected circles). (smu)
Parchment · 180 pp. · 27.2-27.5 x 19.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Paterius, liber testimoniorum. Epistolæ S. Hieronymi et Damasi. Augustini Homiliæ in Ev. S. Iohannis.
A patristic manuscript of unknown provenance from the first half of the 9th century. It contains the Liber Testimoniorum by Paterius, letters exchanged between Jerome and Damasus, selections from the homilies of Augustine on the Gospel of John, the Athanasian Creed with exegesis, and an exegesis of the Our Father. (smu)
Parchment · 272 pp. · 24.5-25 x 18.5-19 cm · St. Gall · 8th-11th centuries
Composite manuscript
School manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall. A collection of works: diverse (often glossed) early medieval educational texts from the 8th to the 11th century (Aldhelm of Malmesbury, Aenigmata, Sedulius, Carmen paschale) and – preserved only here – the Stephanus hymn by Notker Balbulus and a musical treatise in Old High German by Notker the German. (smu)
Parchment · 254 pp. · 28.5 x 21 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Collectio canonum hibernensis
Allemanian copy of the Collectio Canonum Hibernesis from the first half of the 9th century. The work includes Irish canonical law texts, which have been brought together in this collection of canon laws with others from African, Gallic, and Greek synodical and conciliar records as well as with papal decrees from the period around 700. At the end is a scribal dictum by Eadberct. (smu)
Parchment · 518 pp. · 30.4 x 21.9 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
Ambrosius Autpertus, Expositio in Apocalypsin (Lib. I–V)
This is a careful copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books I to V of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 518 pp. · 27.5 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
Ambrosius Autpertus, Expositio in Apocalypsin (Lib. VI–X)
This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books VI to X of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed by a variety of hands from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the monastery of St. Gall. It contains multiple glosses by the hand of the monk Ekkehard IV. (smu)
Parchment · 228 pp. · 29 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Rupertus Tuitiensis, Liber de divinis officiis
Commentary on the liturgy of the Mass and of the church year by Rupert of Deutz (Rupertus Tuitiensis, around 1070-1129). This copy is written by a single hand in a neat 12th century script; the binding is from the middle of the 15th century with a bookmark made of string attached to the headband. On p. 226 and on the cover, the text by Rupert of Deutz is falsely attributed to the Venerable Bede. (dor)