Parchment · 302 pp. · 29.5-30 x 23.5-24 cm · St. Gall · around 860
Ecclesiastical History of the English-Speaking People
A copy of the most important source for the history of the English people, the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, produced in about 860 in the abbey of St. Gall, still it its original Carolingian binding. A short biographical sketch about Bede and a list of his works are appended. (smu)
Parchment · 226 pp. · 28.8-29.3 x 20.8-21.8 cm · Laon in northern France · middle of the 9th century (pp. 3–82) / 9th century (?) (pp. 83-98) / 9th or 11th century (pp. 99-148) / 9th century or 11th-12th centuries (pp. 149-212)
Bede, De natura rerum, De temporibus, and De temporum ratione Pseudo-Bede, Compotum sic Bedae presbiteri librorum quattuor Boethius, De arithmetica libri duo
Natural history (scientific) manuscript compilation, written by various scribes, mostly around the year 850, in the area of Laon in northern France. The codex contains, among other items, Boetheus's De arithmetica, a computational treatise incorrectly attributed to the English scholar the Venerable Bede († 735), and De temporum ratione as well as selections from De natura rerum and De temporibus, all true works of the Venerable Bede. (smu)
Parchment · 92 pp. · 26.3 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda de orthographia; Caper de orthographia; Agroetius de orthographia; et alia orthographica.
A copy of several tracts on orthography, written in about 800 at the Abbey of St. Gall. This manuscript contains, among other items, a copy of the tract De orthographia by Alcuin of York, based on the work of the same name by the Venerable Bede, as well as orthographical tracts by the Gallic bishop Agroetius (5th century) and the Roman grammarian Flavius Caper (2nd century). (smu)
Parchment · 186 pp. · 36.5 x 26 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede
Copies of assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede (De natura rerum; De temporum ratione; the closing portion of De temporibus), produced as early as the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. In addition, this codex contains, among other items, computistic and calendar texts and tables, and at the end, schematic diagrams of the organization of the scientific disciplines as well as quill tests. (smu)
Parchment · 206 pp. · 32.2-32.5 x 20.6-21.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in VII epistolas canonicas
This copy of the commentary of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the seven Canonical Letters is significant to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 333 pp. · 26.4-26.6 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in Tobiam, in Esram et Nehemiam
A copy of the commentaries of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Old Testament books of Tobias, Ezra and Nehmiah, produced in the first half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 256 pp. · 29 x 23 cm · St. Gall · around 860
Jerome, Commentary on the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Includes the most authentic version of the Old English "Death Song" by the Venerable Bede
A redaction by the Anglo-Saxon Joseph Scottus, written in about 860. Appended is the oldest known surviving copy of the letter of Cuthbert, student of the Venerable Bede, to his friend Cuthwin, relating the story of the death of Bede in the year 735. This account incorporates the Old English Death Song by Bede, Fore there neidfaerae ..., in the oldest known version in Bede's own Northumbrian dialect. The manuscript still retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)
Parchment · 424 pp. · 24 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Bedæ: Hexaemeron libri II. Isidorus contra Iudæos libri II ad sororem Florentiam; Libellus S. Hieronymi de mansionibus filiorum Israel; Maccabæorum libri II.
A manuscript compilation of the shorter version of the Book of Genesis by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), together with the work Contra Iudaeos by Isidore of Seville, the letter De mansionibus filiorum Israhel (Epistula 78) by the church father Jerome, and a copy of the first and second Old Testament books of Maccabees, produced in the 9th century, probably in the Abbey of St. Gall. A noteworthy initial capital appears on page 232. (smu)
Parchment · 227 pp. · 30.5-31 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Beda in Marcum evangelistam
This copy of the commentary of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Gospel of Mark is significant to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · II + 303 pp. · 27 x 17-17.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 8th-9th century
Beda in Actus Apostolorum, in Apocalypsin
This copy of the commentary on the Apocalypse and the Acts of the Apostles by the Venerable Bede (d. 735) is significant to textual history. It was produced in the Abbey of St. Gall in about 800. (smu)
Parchment · 392 pp. · 23.8-23.9 x 17.1-17.6 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Bede, Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse
This manuscript contains copies of the commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse by the church father the Venerable Bede (d. 735), with pen tests, a note identifying the scribes (Wichram und Hartpert), and numerous glosses (most in the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV.). This copy was produced in the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall and includes a scribe's verse by the monk Wichram at the end of the manuscript. (smu)
Parchment · 276 pp. · 23.3-23.4 x 15.4-15.7 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Beda in epistolas canonicas. Hieronymi epistolæ. Excerpta.
The oldest surviving manuscript of an anonymous commentary on the Psalms, Eglogae tractatorum in psalterium, of Irish provenance, written in a Carolingian influenced Allemannic minuscule script in about 820 in the Abbey of St. Gall. This codex also contains a copy of the commentary by the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Canonical Letters and copies of two letters by the church father Jerome (347-420). (smu)
Parchment · II + 220 + II pp. · 18 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Bede, De miraculis S. Cuthberti; Aldhelm, De laudibus virginum, De octo principalibus vitiis; Theodulf von Orleans, Letters to Modoin and Aigulf; Modoin, Letter to Theodulf of Orleans
A collection of assorted poetical works from the 8th and the early 9th centuries produced in the first half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. This volume contains the Carmen de miraculis Sancti Cuthberti by the Venerable Bede ( d. 735), the works De laude virginum und De octo principalibus vitiis by Aldhelm of Malmesbury (d. 709), and letters in verse form exchanged between Bishop Theodulf of Orleans (d. 821) and Bishop Modoin of Autun (d. ca. 840/43). (smu)
Parchment · 238 pp. · 18.5-18.7 x 12.9-13 cm · St. Gall · last third of the 9th century
Prognostica Juliani
This copy of the Prognosticum futuri saeculi by Julian of Toledo is significant to textual history, as it is one of the first comprehensive and systematically constructed eschatologies in Christian literature. It was produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the last third of the 9th century. Includes glosses, among them some by the hand of Ehhekart IV., and at the end of the manuscript a short note about the works of the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. (d. 1060; by Ildenfons von Arx entitled Crisis Ekkehardi IV.) (smu)
Parchment · 124 pp. · 21 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · after 850
Manuscript compilation: includes the only exemplar in the world of a letter from the monk Ermenrich of Ellwangen to Abbot Grimald of St. Gall
Manuscript compilation from the monastery of St. Gall, produced after 850. In addition to copies of writings by the Venerable Bede and Pseudo-Hippocrates, Letter to Antioch, this codex includes a more significant item: the only exemplar in the world of a letter from the monk Ermenrich of Ellwangen to Abbot Grimald of St. Gall, in which Ermenrich demonstrates his scholarliness and requests that Grimald entrust to him the composition of a biography in verse of the abbey's founder, Saint Gallus. Includes many particulars about daily life in the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 374 pp. · 23.7-23.8 x 15.9-16.2 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Beda Venerabilis: De tabernaculo, De templo, Quaestiones in libros regum
A copy of the exegetical works De tabernaculo and De templo as well as Quaestiones in libros regum by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 236 pp. · 23 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century / 9th century
Manuscript compilation containing a copy of the oldest library catalog of the Abbey Library of St. Gall
Manuscript compilation from the monastery of St. Gall containing a copy of the oldest library catalog of the Abbey Library of St. Gall from the second half of the 9th century, followed by St. Gall book accession registers for the 9th century (a register of books acquired by Hartmut under Abbot Grimald; a register of books produced by order of Abbot Hartmut; a register of the private library of Abbot Grimald). The second part contains works by Alcuin of York († 804), among them his letter to Arn, Archbishop of Salzburg, from the year 802; the treatise letter to students of the Cloister of St. Martin in Tours on the subjects of penance and confession of sins, Alcuin's commentary on the penitential psalms. (smu)
Parchment · 168 pp. · 21 x 16.8 cm · Tours (Saint Martin) · first half of the 9th century
Alcuin: Grammatica
A copy of the grammar textbook De grammatica, composed as a dialogue between the two pupils Saxo and Franco, by Alcuin of York (d. 804), produced during the first half of the 9th century at the cloister of St. Martin at Tours, acquired by St. Gall during the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 562 pp. · 20.2-20.4 x 15-15.1 cm · St. Gall · early 10th century
Isidore of Seville’s Synonyma; Pseudo-Sisbert of Toledo’s corpus; Fulgentius of Ruspe’s De fide; Alcuin’s works.
Copied in St. Gall by a single scribe, this early 10th-century manuscript contains Isidore of Seville’s Synonyma, the so-called corpus of Pseudo-Sisbert of Toledo, Fulgentius of Ruspe’s De fide and a significant collection of Alcuin’s theological treatises, followed by a small selection of Defensor of Ligugé’s Scintillae (acc). (can)
Parchment · 68 pp. · 20-20.5 x 13.5-14 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Educational manuscript
Educational manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall, produced in the second half of the 9th century, contains Alcuin's De dialectica, selections from works by Cassiodorus and Augustine, assorted glossaries and explications of the Bible and of grammatical terms, as well as a Runic alphabet: the famous St. Gallen Isruna-Traktat (on page 52). (smu)
Parchment · 234 pp. · 20 x 12.5 cm · Tours, Abbey St. Martin · beginning of the 9th century
Collection of 66 letters by Alcuin of York
Historically significant collection of 66 letters by Alcuin of York († 804), written at the beginning of the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Martin in Tours. This copy was obtained quite early by the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 247 pp. · 11-11.5 x 18.5 cm · Tours (?) · beginning of the 9th century
Composite manuscript with theological works by Alcuin of York; also contains Alcuin’s Carmina 123 (Epitaphium Alcuini) and 112 (Dum sedeas laetus)
This composite manuscript from the 9th century was probably produced in Tours. It contains various theological works by Alcuin of York (around 730-804): De virtutibus et vitiis; De fide sanctae et individuae trinitatis; De trinitate et ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII; De animae ratione ad Eulaliam virginem. Also included in the manuscript are the Epitaphium Alcuini (carm. 123) and Alcuin’s Carmen 112 Dum sedeas laetus (an inscription for an unknown abbey church), which has been preserved only in this manuscript. On p. 245 there is a brief historical note regarding Charlemagne’s Divisio Regnorum from 806. This note is written in the same hand as Alcuin’s Carmen 112 and contains a reference to the date of the writing: Anno dcccvi ab incarnatione domini indictione xiiii anno xxxviii regnante karolo imperatore viii idus februarii die veneris divisum est regnum illius iter filiis suis quantum unusquis post illum habet et ego alia die hoc opus perfeci. On p. 247 there is a pen trial of the antiphon Quid vobis videtur de Christo? Cuius filius est? (Hesbert, Corpus antiphonalium officii, no. 4533), the first four words of which are marked with neumes. (sno)
Parchment · 238 pp. · 14-14.5 x 12-12.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · second half of the 9th century
Composite manuscript containing, among other items, works by Columbanus, Symphosius, Claudianus and Alcuin of York
This copy from the second half of the 9th century may have been produced in St. Gall. It contains the following works: Poetae scholastici XII (incomplete); Symphosius, Enigmata; Columbanus Versus ad Hunaldum, ad Sethum, ad Fetolium; Claudianus, Giganthomachia; Alcuin of York, De dialectica; Dialogus de rhetorica et de virtutibus (with diagrams on pp. 224-236). (sno)
Parchment · 66 pp. · 19-19.5 x 25-26 cm · St. Gall (?) · middle of the 9th century
Ps.-Augustinus, Categoriae decem ex Aristotele decerptae
In this manuscript, the pseudo-Augustinian work Categoriae decem ex Aristotele decerptae bears the title Cathegoriae Aristotelis ab Augustino translatae ad filium suum Adeodatum. It is preceded by a fragment from Book 1 of the Periphyseon by Johannes Scottus Eriugena (about categories) and by verses by Alcuin of York to Charlemagne. From its inception, this copy of uncertain origin from the middle of the 9th century was designed to be glossed; the wide central column of text is surrounded by marginal glosses as well as several interlinear glosses. (sno)
Parchment · 302 pp. · 32 x 23.5 cm · West Franconian empire (Tours?) · first third of the 9th century
Alcuinus, Expositio in Iohannis evangelium
This copy of a commentary on the Gospel of John by Alcuin of York (about 730-804) was produced in the first third of the 9th century, probably in the West Franconian empire, possibly in Tours. The flyleaf shows traces of a page from Vergilius Sangallensis (Cod. Sang. 1394). (sno)
Parchment · 280 pp. · 17.2-18.2 x 24-24.5 cm · southern region of Germany (?) · second half and middle of the 9th century
Composite manuscript with theological works by Alcuin of York; also contains excerpts from Augustine’s De perfectione iustitiae hominis
The manuscript consists of two codices bound together (p. 1-149 and 150-279). The first part dates from the second half of the 9th century, the second from the middle of the 9th century. The volume was privately owned by the St. Gall Abbot Grimald (841-872); however, it was probably written not in St. Gall, but at least in part at a scriptorium in the southern region of Germany. It contains various works by Alcuin of York (about 730-804): De fide sanctae et individuae trinitatis; De trinitate et ad Fredegisum quaestiones XXVIII; De animae ratione ad Eulaliam virginem; Dialogus de rhetorica et de virtutibus (with diagrams p. 210-217); De Dialectica (with diagram p. 270). The codex further contains excerpts (chapters 2-11) from De perfectione iustitiae hominis by the Church Father Augustine (in the codex under the titel Adnotatio interrogationum caelesti pelagiani et responsionum sancti augustini). On p. 148 there is a 13th century pen trial of the alleluia Conversus Iesus ad mariam dixit ei fides tua te salvum fecit vade in pace (with neumes); on p. 218 (11th/12th century) the antiphon Conspicit in celis mens prudens Ezechielis (with neumes) as well as the responsorium Martir sancta dei quae flagrans igne fidei (without neumes). On p. 271 there is the figure of a man with sword and shield etched with a stylus; an almost identical figure can be found in Cod. Sang. 175, p. 356 (there as a pen sketch). (sno)
Parchment · 244 pp. · 20 x 15.5-16 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Composite manuscript
Manuscript compilation with copies of Halitgar of Cambrai's "Bussbuch" (Book of Penances), a pseudo-Roman penitential book, assorted smaller texts and a copy of the moral tract frequently attributed to the church father Cyprian, De duodecim abusivis saeculi. This well-crafted copy was produced in the St. Gall scriptorium and was donated to the monastery by Abbot Grimald from his private book collection. (smu)
Parchment · 514 pp. · 25.6 x 19 cm · St. Gall · 850/880
Amalarius of Metz, De ecclesiasticis officiis libri IV
This is an unadorned copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the De ecclesiasticis officiis libri IV (also referred to as Liber officialis) by liturgist and Archbishop Amalarius of Metz († around 850); it was written at the monastery ofSt. Gall around 820, probably under Deputy-Abbot and Abbot Hartmut (872-883). Between book 3 and book 4, inserted on pages 349 to 361, the manuscript contains five letters by Amalarius of Metz to various addressees. (smu)
Parchment · 395 pp. · 28.5-29 x 20.5-21 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli
Copy of the first part of the work Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli, a compilation of works by the church fathers (mainly those of Augustine) by the scholar Deacon Florus of Lyon († about 860), produced in the second half of the 9th century in the monastery of St. Gall, with numerous glosses written by the monk Ekkehart IV. (about 980 - 1060) in the 11th century. This volume includes commentaries on the Epistle of Paul to the Romans. (smu)
Parchment · 434 pp. · 30.4 x 21.7 cm · St. Gall · 872-883
Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli
Copy of the Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli, combined from works by the early Church fathers (especially Augustine) by the scholar Deacon Florus of Lyon († about 860), produced under Abbot Hartmut (872-883) in the monastery of St. Gall, with numerous glosses by the St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. (about 980 -1060). This volume includes the commentaries on the two Epistles of Paul to the Thessalonians, on the two Epistles to Timothy, and on the Letter to the Hebrews. (smu)
Parchment · 562 pp. · 34-34.5 x 26.5 cm · St. Gall · 872-883
Copy of the Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli
Copy of the Collectanea ex Augustino in epistolas Pauli, combined from works by the early Church fathers (especially Augustine) by the scholar Deacon Florus of Lyon († about 860), produced under Abbot Hartmut (872-883) in the monastery of St. Gall, with numerous glosses by the St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. (about 980 -1060). This manuscript, still in its original Carolingian period binding, preserves the commentaries on both Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians. (smu)
Parchment · 206 pp. · 35.5 x 27-27.5 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 9th century
A copy of books XIII through XX of the Commentaries of Hrabanus Maurus on the Old Testament book of Jeremiah
A copy of books XIII through XX of the Commentaries of Hrabanus Maurus († 856) on the Old Testament book of Jeremiah (Expositio super Jeremiam prophetam libri viginti), produced in the middle of the 9th century on the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 684 pp. · 25.5 x 19 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Commentary of Hrabanus Maurus on the Pentateuch
A copy of the commentary of Hrabanus Maurus on the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy; also called the five books of Moses), produced in the 9th century in the abbey of St. Gall, with a scribe's verses at the end: "Accipe nunc demum scripturam..." (smu)
Parchment · 472 pp. · 22 x 16.5-17 cm · St. Gall · first quarter of the 10th century
Commentary of Hrabanus Maurus on Kings I and II
A copy of the commentary of Hrabanus Maurus on the Old Testament books Third- and Fourth Kings, written in the Cloister of St. Gall in the first quarter of the 10th century. (smu)
Parchment · 270 pp. · 24.5 x 15-15.5 cm · Cloister of St. Emmeram in Regensburg · around 850
Hrabanus Maurus, De institutione clericorum
A copy of the work De institutione clericorum (On the institution of the clergy) by Hrabanus Maurus, most likely produced in 850 in the Cloister of St. Emmeram in Regensburg and probably obtained by Abbot Grimald (841-872), who was also Ludwig the German's royal chaplain. The manuscript also contains a letter from Charlemagne to Alcuin from 798 as well as Canon 145 of the Synod of Aachen in 816. (smu)
Parchment · 60 (58) pp. · 19-19.5 x 13-13.5 cm · 12th century
Anselm of Canterbury, Cur deus homo
This manuscript contains Anselm of Canterbury’s main work, Cur deus homo, including the Praefatio (p. 3), table of contents (pp. 3–5) and Commendatio operis ad Urbanum papam II (pp. 5–6). (sno)
Parchment and paper · 98 pp. · 31 x 23.5 cm · 14th century
Iacobus de Lausanna, Compendium moralitatum; Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, Symbolum; excerpts from Iohannes Baconthorp OCarm, Questiones de prologo quarti sententiarum
Composed partly in parchment (pp. 1-74) and partly in paper (pp. 75-98), this fourteenth-century manuscript brings together three different texts. The Compendium moralitatum (1320-1322) of the Dominican James of Lausanne is built as a dictionary running from A[bicit mundus …] (p. 1a) to Y[pocrita] (p. 36b). There then follows the Symbolum magistri domini Bonae Venturae, as the rubric calls it (p. 37), which is in fact a text attributed to the Dominican Aldobrandinus de Tuscanella, copied by a different hand than that of the preceding text (pp. 37a-72a). The section in paper contains excerpts from the Questiones de prologo quarti sententiarum (pp. 75a-98a) by the English Carmelite John Baconthorp (c. 1290-1348) [https://drcs.zahnd.be/oid/100499]. The cords and the sewing stations on the inside of the spine of the book (after p. 98) show that another part of the manuscript was originally bound in, and has since been removed. Fragments of canon law texts from the fourteenth-century serve as pastedowns. (rou)
Parchment · 210 pp. · 11.6 x 15.2 cm · St. Gall (?) · part 1: 11th century / part 2: 11th or 12th century
Glossaria diversa
The manuscript consists of two codices bound together (part 1: pp. 1-198; part 2: pp. 199-210), written by several hands. At least the first, older part was probably produced in St. Gall. It contains various various glossaries (Latin-Latin as well as Latin-Old High German) of the Bible, of hagiographic texts (Abdias, Historica Apostolica; Sulpicius Severus, Vita S. Martini), grammatical works (Priscian, Institutio de arte grammatica; Donat, Ars grammatica), and writings by Christian authors (Prudentius; Sedulius; Sedulius Scottus, De greca), furthermore glossaries of herbs, a medical paper, and an incomplete astronomical treatise. (sno)
Parchment · 188 pp. · 19.5 x 18-18.2 cm · St. Gall (?) · 9th-10th century
Biblical Glossary
Latin biblical glossary (Latin terms explained in Latin), written in a Carolingian minuscule script in about 900, probably in the Abbey of St. Gall. There are numerous quill tests at the beginning and the end of the glossary. (smu)
Parchment · II + 121 pp. · 21.7-22 x 15.5-16 cm · St Gall · 9th/10th century
Bible Glosses; Jerome, Ad Marcellam de hebraicis nominibus
Manuscript of collected texts, includes two Bible glossaries, a Psalter glossary, and a directory explaining Hebrew and Greek names, produced in about 900 at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 236 (216) pp. · 20-20.2 x 15.1 cm · Mainz · around 850 / second half of the 9th century
Canonical documents from the diocese of Mainz; Jerome, Biblical Commentary; Isidore of Seville, Synonyma
A three-part composite manuscript containing texts from the 9th century: (1) Canons from the collection of the diocese of Mainz under Hrabanus Maurus, (2) a Biblical glossary, (3) a copy of the Synonyma by Isidore of Seville. Part 1 was apparently produced in Mainz (in about 850), the other two parts at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 280 pp. · 24 x 16 cm · 11th/12th century
Glossae latinae; anonymous commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
This volume consists of two more or less equally old codices. On pp. 3-94, the first codex collects glosses on Genesis and on Leviticus, drawing on patristic sources such as the works of Gregory the Great and Augustine, as well as on the Leviticus commentary by Hesychius of Jerusalem. On pp. 95-279, the second codex contains an anonymous commentary on Matthew. Several initials are multicolored, e.g., p. 278, p. 279. In the 14th century, a table of contents was added on the last page, p. 280, which had originally been left blank. (nie)
Parchment · 336 pp. · 22.6 x 16 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Glossaria diversa
Compilation of various types of glossaries: Biblical glossaries, glossaries of texts by Church Fathers (such as the Letter of Jerome to Marcella or Pope Gregory the Great’s homilies on the Gospels). A Latin word from the respective text is followed by a Latin explanation or by a vernacular (Alemannic) translation. The manuscript also contains glossaries of technical terms (such as of the canons, of birds, fish, medicine, kinship terms). These glossaries, which were compiled by several monks from the monastery of St. Gall in the second half of the 9th century, are among the oldest records of the German language. The majority of the parchment pages in the first half of the manuscript are damaged at the top edge. (sno)
Parchment · 254 pp. · 24.5 x 16.5 cm · beginning of the 13th century
Anselmus Laudunensis (?), Commentaries on the Psalms and Cantica
The manuscript contains Anselm of Laon’s († 1117) commentary on the Psalms (the author’s identity is according to Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, Nr. 1357; elsewhere the text is ascribed to a certain Haimo). On pp. 245–253, the manuscript continues with a commentary on the little doxology as well as on the Old Testament cantica for Lauds, which were authored either also by Anselm or by his student Gilbert of Poitiers († 1155) (Stegmüller, RB 1357, 1 or 2530). A few pages contain longer marginal glosses. Decoration is limited to two- to three-line red lombards and sparse rubrication. On p. 254 can be found the library stamp from the time of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564). (sno)
Parchment · 316 pp. · 22 x 14.5 cm · 1st half of the 14th century
Homiliary; Herbert of Clairvaux, Liber miraculorum (excerpts)
The codex, written in a single hand (p. 236: two hexameters naming the scribe Cuonradus), contains primarily sermons for the entire ecclesiastic year (pp. 1–236: sermones de tempore, pp. 239–285: sermones de sanctis). From p. 287 onwards are added a few chapters from the Liber miraculorum of Herbert of Clairvaux († ca. 1198). Decoration is limited to at most three-line red Lombard initials. (sno)
Parchment · 188 pp. · 15.5-18 x 10.5-11.5 cm · 12th century
Berengaudus Ferrariensis, Expositio super septem visiones libri Apocalypsis
Copy
of the commentary on the Apocalypse by a certain Berengaudus or
Bellengarius, written by numerous different hands. Probably the
author is Berengaudus, a monk at Ferrières Abbey, who studied in
Auxerre around 890 and who is mentioned in a letter by Lupus von
Ferrières, but about whom nothing more is known. The small-format
manuscript is written in 33 to 64 lines per page. (sno)
Parchment · I + 50 + I pp. · 24–24.5 x 16–17.5 cm · 12th century
Anselmus Laudunensis, Commentary on the Apocalypse
This small manuscript contains the Apocalypse commentary of Anselm of Laon, who died in 1117 (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, no. 1371). Except for a four-line red lombard at the begnning of the text, there is no decoration present. On p. 50 can be found the library stamp from the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564). (sno)
Parchment · 95 pp. · 26.7-26.9 x 18.7-18.8 cm · St. Gall (?) · 11th century
Commentarius in Genesim et Leviticum
A copy of an anonymous commentary on the first and second books of Exodus. The codex was produced during the 11th century, possibly at the Abbey of St. Gall. (sno)
Parchment · 236 pp. · 18.2/18.3 x 26.3/26.5 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Remigius of Auxerre, Expositio in psalmos
One of only three surviving manuscrips of “Version 1” (Stegmüller, Nr. 7212) of a commentary by Remigius of Auxerre (841-908) on the Psalms (Expositio in psalmos), written in the 12th century at the monastery ofSt. Gall. The other two manuscripts are in the Bibliothèque Municipale of Reims. Like one of these other two codices in Reims, the St. Gall manuscript does not contain a complete copy of the text; the manuscript ends with the commentary on Psalm 114,6. (smu)
Parchment · 388 pp. · 29.2-29.4 x 23.6-23.8 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Walahfridus Strabo, Commentarius in psalmos LXXVII-CL
The second part of the commentary on the Psalms, Expositio super psalmos, by Walahfrid Strabo (808/09-849), scholar and Abbot of Reichenau with commentaries on Psalms 77 through 150; produced at the abbey of St. Gall around the year 1000. (smu)
Parchment · 308 pp. · 29.5 x 20 cm · Southwestern Germany and St. Gallen (?) · end of the 12th century and 13th century
Peter Lombard, Commentary on the Psalms; Bernard of Clairvaux and Nicholas of Clairvaux, Sermons and treatises; anonymous sermons and treatises
In a binding from the time of Abbot Ulrich Rösch (1463–1491), the manuscript has two parts. The first (pp. 3–166), written probably in southern Germany towards the end of the twelfth century, contains approximately the last third of Peter Lombard’s († 1160) commentary on the Psalms (on Ps. 109–150). The second part (pp. 167–308) was produced in the thirteenth century, perhaps in St. Gall, and contains sermons and treatises, overwhelmingly by Bernard of Clairvaux († 1153). In addition to a few of Bernard’s large liturgical sermons, there appear a few of uncertain authenticity, such as six sermons by Nicholas of Clairvaux († after 1175). The sermons on pp. 167–292 are ordered according to the ecclesiastical calendar (de tempore and de sanctis). A sermon from Bernard’s Sermones de diversis is here applied to the feast of St. Gall (pp. 268–270). On pp. 292–298 can be found the second half of Bernard of Clairvaux’s treatise De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae; a few chapters, especially the first and last, are heavily abridged. The final pages (pp. 298-308) contain further short sermons and treatises, at least part of which can be ascribed to Bernard. (sno)
Conradus de Soltau, Expositio in Psalmos, and other theological texts
This paper manuscript begins with Conrad of Soltau’s commentary on the Psalms (pp. 3a-210a). Before becoming bishop of Verden, Conrad of Soltau (v. 1350-1407) studied at Prague, where he became master and professor of theology, then rector of the University (1384/5). The chief sources of his commentary on the Psalms are Nicholas of Lyra and the Glossa Ordinaria. The remainder of the manuscript contains various theological texts: excerpts from the Psalter (pp. 212-216), the Articuli de Passione Christi (pp. 218-244), the first page of a calendar (p. 348), an excerpt from a martyrology (pp. 350-354), Jacobus de Voragine’s sermons for Lent (pp. 368a-429b) and the Legenda s. Verena (pp. 464a-477b). Many blank pages interrupt the various texts of this volume, copied by many different hands. The ownership mark on p. 1: Dis Buch ist Anthoni Gaisberg likely signifies Anton Gaisberg, father of Franz (ca. 1465-1529), abbot of St. Gall (1504-1529). It is certainly through Franz, a great lover and patron of manuscripts, that this work entered the Abbey Library of St. Gall. (rou)
Parchment · 264 pp. · 29.7-29.8x 23.9-24.2 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus in psalmos I-LXXVI, et alia.
A copy of the first part of the commentary on the Psalms, Expositio super psalmos by Walahfrid Strabo (808/09-849), dealing with Psalms 1 through 76, produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. In addition there are copies of two letters from Jerome (No. 30: Ad Paulam; No. 38: Ad Marcellam). (smu)
Parchment · 288 pp. · 36 x 25 cm · Southern Germany (?) · 2nd half of the 12th century
Petrus Lombardus, Commentaria in psalmos
Incomplete copy of Peter Lombard’s commentary on the Psalms (on Ps 80-150). The first half (quires 1-27) is missing. The decoration is limited to red paragraph initials. The initials planned for subdividing the Psalter (Ps 101, 109) were not executed. (sno)
Parchment · 288 pp. · 30.3 x 20.2 cm · St. Gall (?) · 12th/13th century
Composite manuscript with homiletic and historiographic works
Latin composite manuscript from the period between 1150 and 1250, written in Southern Germany, perhaps even in St. Gall. The volume contains (not quite complete) the sermons of Bernard of Clairvaux on the Old Testament Song of Songs (Sermones super cantica canticorum), the history of the First Crusade by Robert of Reims (Historia Hierosolimitana), the work De locis sanctis by the Irish scholar and saint Adomnán of Iona († 704), a Relatio about the Apostle Thomas as well as short verses about the parts of the Liturgy of the Hours (Versus de horis canonicis), and verses about the ten plagues of Egypt (Versus de plagis Aegyptii). (smu)
Paper · 144 pp. · 29 x 21.5 cm · Sitterdorf · 1434 and 14th c.
Theological Miscellany
The paper manuscript contains several texts copied on two columns by different hands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It begins with a martyrology (pp. 1a-80a) that was copied in 1434 and signed by the copyist Ulrich Aeppli, plebanus at Sitterdorf in Thurgau (p. 80a). At least five other manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall are either entirely or partially from his hand (Cod. Sang. 327; Cod. Sang. 709; Cod. Sang. 786; Cod. Sang. 1078; Cod. Sang. 1076). After a few blank pages (pp. 81-95), one of which is stamped with the seal of the library of St. Gall under the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (p. 81), comes a series of shorter texts copied in the fourteenth century, including sermons (pp. 98a; 98b-100a), the copy of a letter of Pope Gregory VII to Mathilda of Canossa (pp. 100a-101b), and prayers organized according to the order of the liturgical year (pp. 102a-117b), except for the first prayer, dedicated to Saint Brendan (p. 101b). The collection further has a remarkable calendar that advises a diet where each month of the year is associated with the eating of a fish (p. 98a). According to the title on p. 120a, the last text contains St. Augustine’s Quaestiones (pp. 120a-141b). (rou)
Parchment · 324 pp. · 30.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 11th century
Haimo Autissiodorensis, Expositio in Isaiam
Complete copy of the commentary on the Book of Isaiah by Haimo of Auxerre (around 810-865/875). The manuscript was rebound in the middle of the 15th century and is mentioned in the 1461 catalog of the Abbey Library. It is probably a copy of the Reichenau manuscript, Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek, Aug. Perg. LXV, also dated to the 11th century. (dor)
Paper · 268 pp. · 29 × 20.5 cm · 14th and 15th century
Bernhard de Parentinis, Tractatus de officio missae; Anonymous commentary on Isaiah
Two parts make up this manuscript. The first part, somewhat more recent, comes from the early fifteenth century and contains Bernhard de Parentinis’s Tractatus de officio missae (pp. 3–178), including the capitulatio (pp. 3–9), dedication (pp. 9–10), prologue (pp. 10–11) and collatio (pp. 11–12). The actual text begins on p. 12. Pages 179–190 are blank. The second, older part, comes from the fourteenth century and contains on pp. 191–254 an anonymous commentary on Isaiah (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 8038; the text breaks off in the middle of the commentary on chapter 21) and, on p. 256, the beginning of Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo, Inc. Si diligenter voluerimus in lege domini meditari. This text also breaks off in mid-sentence. The manuscript is bound in a parchment limp-binding that has cloth glued on the inside. The cloth has detached from the inside front cover, such that the text on the parchment can be read, a German-language charter (fourteenth century). Strips, probably from the same charter, serve as quire guards in the middle of gatherings. On p. 268, in the lower margin, appears a purchase note from 1422. According to the ownership mark on p. 3, the manuscript has been in the Abbey of St. Gall since the fifteenth century. Stamps from the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564) can be found on p. 3 and 178. (sno)
Paper · A–G + 129 ff. · 20.5 x 15.5 cm · 1437, 1446, 15th century
Sermones sive tractatus de passione domini
This paper manuscript consists of four codicological units, and (contrary to Scherrer) dates to the fifteenth century. The first unit includes blank folios A–F and has an old, fifteenth-century, foliation 182–187. The second unit (f. G and ff. 1–22) first contains a longer, crossed-out table of contents, and, beneath it, an updated, shorter table of contents; both tables come from the fifteenth century. On ff. 1ra–22rb follows the sermon or treatise De passione domini, which is ascribed to Henry of Langenstein both in the manuscript and in the previous catalogues, but ought to be attributed to Henry Totting of Oyta († 1397). According to the rubric comments at the beginning and end of the treatise (f. 1ra, 22rb), this text was copied at the order of the Dominican Conrad Bainli. The third part (ff. 23–81) transmits another sermon or treatise De passione domini, and was produced by a second scribe, who, according to the colophon (f. 74va) made the copy in 1446, also at the behest of Conrad Bainli. The fourth unit (ff. 82–129) contains first on ff. 82ra-116ra the Expositio dominicae passionis by Jordan of Quedlinburg. According to the colophon (f. 116ra) Conrad Bainli, one of the probably two copyists of the Expositio, finished copying the text in 1437. There then follow on ff. 117ra–123ra excerpts from the four Gospels (a Gospel concordance on the Passion?) made by yet another scribe, who, according to the colophon (f. 123ra), also finished the copy in 1437. The binding dates to the fifteenth century and has wooden covers that were already reused. (len)
Paper · 552 pp. · 28 × 20-21 cm · 1398 and 1455/1458
Sermons and other texts
The manuscript was produced in the late fourteenth century and shortly after the middle of the fifteenth century. The first half (pp. 17–347) was largely copied by Johannes Schorand (except pp. 17–47) and on p. 123, 303 and 347 is dated 1398. Pages 348–412 are written by several hands from the fifteenth century. The last part (pp. 413–538) comes from the hand of the Dominican friar Cuonradus Bainli and contains several datings: 1455 (p. 470, 475 and 488) and 1458 (p. 538). The manuscript contains predominantly sermons, but also other, chiefly theological, texts. On pp. 17–124 are the Sermones super Pater noster of Godefridus Heriliacensis (from Erlach on Lake Biel), followed by sermons De tempore on pp. 124–303. The explicit on p. 303 (Explicit Jacobus de Foragine) is deceptive; only a few sermons are by Jacobus de Voragine. In fact, the first 58 sermons are identical with the sermon collection of an anonymous Franciscan contained in Oxford, Merton College, MS 236 (15 c.), and referred to by its incipit, "Mendicus". Subsequently, from the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Cod. Sang. 329 has a mixture of material from the “Mendicus”-sermon collection and additional sermons from Jacobus de Voragine’s Sermones de tempore. After both sermon collections follow a few shorter texts: pp. 304–347 of the Tractatus de symbolo fidei by Aldobrandinus de Toscanella, pp. 348–353 an Easter sermon from Albertus Patavinus’s Expositio evangeliorum dominicalium (Inc. Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi et Salome emerunt aromata … Licet magna leticia sit rem desideratam invenire), pp. 355-357 canonical dispositions, pp. 358-360 the chapter De sancto Petro apostolo from Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea, and pp. 363-413 a Tractatus de amore dei, anime. The pages copied by Cuonradus Bainli begin with the Commentarius in decem praecepta by Henry of Friemar (pp. 413–475, with a detailed index pp. 470–475), followed by a Sermo de sacramento corporis Christi (pp. 479–488) and pp. 488–538 a text with the title Biblia virginis Marie, with a detailed index on pp. 488–491. The codex has various contemporary foliations. Johannes Lener owned the manuscript; after he died, it passed to Johannes Engler (cf. the comments in the hand of Johannes Schorand, p. 124 and 347, corrected and expanded by a fifteenth-century hand). Since the mid-sixteenth century at the latest, the manuscript was in the library of the Abbey of St. Gall, (p. 353, the library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer, from 1553–1564). (sno)
Parchment · 266 pp. · 30.3-30.5 x 21.9-22.4 x cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Commentarius in epistolas Pauli ad Galathas, ad Ephesios etc.
Copies of the Ambrosiaster (commentaries by a Pseudo-Ambrosius on the letters of the apostle Paul), produced in the second half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 552 pp. · 35.6 × 26.7 cm · Cloister of St. Gall (?) · 10th-11th centuries
Haimo of Auxerre, Sermones super epistolas et evangelia
Homiliary of the Benedictine Scholar Haimo of Auxerre (Haimo Autissiodorensis; † around 878). A much used manuscript from the 10th/11th century with marginal notes by the St. Gall Monk Ekkehard IV with added pages from the 12th/13th century. (dor)
Parchment · 480 pp. · 39.5 x 25.5 cm · Northern France? · around 1200
Petrus Lombardus, Collectanea in epistolas Pauli
This manuscript contains the commentary on the Epistles of Paul (Collectanea in epistolas Pauli) by Peter Lombard (1095/1100-1160). On the spine label and on p. 1/2, it is falsely attributed to Pierre de Tarentaise (later Pope Innocent V). The codex is written in two columns; one column, often very narrow, gives the biblical text, the other gives the commentary in lines of half the height. References to authors consulted by Peter Lombard are given in red in the margins. At the beginning of each letter, there are two initials (for the biblical text and for the commentary) painted in opaque colors on a gold background (p. 3, 5, 116, 202, 249, 287, 316, 334/335, 351, 371, 402, 409, 412). These exhibit features of the so-called "channel style", which was popular on both sides of the English Channel around 1200. (sno)
Parchment · 436 pp. · 35.5 x 26 cm · first half of the 15th century
Missal
Contrary to Scherrer, this missal does not come from the fourteenth century, but rather from the first half of the fifteenth century. In addition to a full-page image of a canon on p. 179, the decoration includes pen-flourished initials (p. 77b, 413a, 434a etc.) as well as outlined, but not completed, zoomorphic and historiated initials. Thus, for example, on p. 12a for Christmas there appears an initial in the form of a dragon enclosing a Nativity scene and, on p. 92a, for the Dedicatio huius monasterii, an initial with a man in a tree. Notable are the numerous sequences that the missal contains. According to the possessor’s note on p. 1, Sanctorum Iohannis Baptiste et Evangeliste, the manuscript was held by the Abbey of St. John in Thurtal since at least the eighteenth century. (len)
Parchment · 798 pp. · 24.2 x 16 cm · St. Gall · around 1050-1060
Computus, Breviary, Gradual, Sacramentary
A collection of liturgical materials, containing computational texts and tables, a breviary with incipits of the spoken and chanted texts for the Mass for the principal feast days of Saints, a gradual with neumes and a sacramentary. Illustrated with several miniatures, executed in the monastery of St. Gall around 850. Between two sections, on page 304: Old High German confession and creed ("St. Galler Glauben und Beichte III"). (smu)
Parchment · II + 650 pp. · 34.2 x 17.8 cm · St. Gall · around 1000 / around 980
Calendar, Gradual, Sacramentary
Antiphonary, dating from around the year 1000, with Calendar and Gradual (written and provided with fine neumes probably by the monk Hartker), Ordo Missae and Sacramentary. An invaluable monument of music history. (smu)
Parchment · I + 799 + I pp. · 24.5 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 11th century
Calendar, Gradual, Sacramentary
Superbly crafted Sacramentary of St. Gall from the time of Abbot Norpert of Stablo (1034-1072) for the celebration of the Mass. With Calendar, Gradual and Sacramentary, illustrations include five full-page, high-quality miniatures of the principal feast days of the liturgical year (Christmas, Good Friday, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost). (smu)
Parchment · 738 pp. · 25.8 x 19.3 cm · St. Gall · around 1070
Calendar, Sacramentary
Superbly crafted St. Gall sacramentary from the time of Abbot Norbert of Stablo (1034-1072) for the celebration of the Mass, containing a calendar of saints, a list of incipits of the spoken and chanted texts for the Mass on the principal feast days of saints and the sacramentary itself, which is illustrated with four splendid full-page miniatures, two full-page initials and numerous smaller initials. (smu)
Parchment · 844 pp. · 23.5 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century / 11th century
Calendar, Lectionary, Gradual, Sacramentary
Earliest complete extant gradual of St. Gall. The different parts of the manuscript date from different periods. Illustrated with numerous initials and several pen drawings (especially in the Sacramentary part). (smu)
This plenary missal, produced in St. Gall, which contains all chants and prayers of the Mass, consists of the following parts, written partly in the 11th and partly in the 14th century: liturgical calendar; sequences (without melodies); gradual; Masses (with prayers, readings, and chants for the Proper of the Mass); Canon of the Mass; sacramentary; lectionary. On p. 232 (opposite the Te igitur), there is a full-page picture of the crucifixion with two kneeling monks. (sno)
Parchment · 182 pp. · 27.5 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Sequentiary, Calendar and Sacramentary
Sequentiary containing sequences without neumes by Notker Balbulus (pp. 1-14), a calendar (pp. 15-20) and a sacramentary (p. 21-182), beginning on p. 21 with a beautiful initial ‘M’ (a vine scroll contoured in red on a blue and green background) and from p. 22 the Canon of the Mass with a Te igitur-initial with the Crucifixion. (dor)
Parchment · A-B + 280 pp. · 20.5 x 13.5 cm · Zürich · 14th century
Missal
This missal was most likely written for the Grossmünster of Zürich (from a comparison with the Grossmünster’s Liber Ordinarius); it contains the proprium de tempore, proprium de sanctis (with the major feasts of Zürich), commune sanctorum and votive masses. The chants are written in smaller letters throughout, but only on a few pages do they appear together with melodies in neumatic notation. The canon missae (pp. 73–83) begins with a simple drawing of a canon. With that exception, the decoration is limited to at most two-line red lombards. (sno)
Parchment · A–B + 480 pp. · 19 x 13.5 cm · Strasbourg (?) · 1st quarter of the 14th century
Missal
According to the particularly venerated saints in the calendar (pp. 6–17, the months are in the wrong order), this missal, written on fine parchment, belonged to a convent of Dominican women dedicated to St. Agnes. The canon missae (pp. 193–204) is introduced by a high-quality drawing, whose similarity to the depictions of the crucifixion in the Dominican convent of Constance has been emphasized in the art-historical literature. But it is unlikely that the manuscript was produced in the Diocese of Constance, since, among others, Gallus and Otmar are missing from the calendar; rather, the calendar points to a Strasbourg provenance. The missal is richly decorated with red and blue pen-flourished initials. On p. 18 there is an Exorcismus salis et aquae; following the Commune sanctorum there appear votive masses (pp. 426–446) and sequences (pp. 447–461). The manuscript was in St. Gall since the sixteenth or seventeenth century at the latest (possession note on p. 5). (sno)
Parchment · 550 pp. · 22.7 x 16.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Lectiones. Psalterium.
Lectionary from the Abbey of St. Gall with numerous sermons on various Gospel selections by the church fathers, produced by a number of different hands in the 10th century in St. Gall. This little studied volume also contains benedictions and oratory prayers. Appended at the back (in small script in two columns) is a Psalter. The manuscript has become extremely soiled with intensive use; it features assorted addenda and supplements from the 11th and 12th centuries. (smu)
Parchment · 376 pp. · 23 x 14.5 cm · Chur · around 800
Gelasian Remedius-Sacramentary
The incomplete Gelasian Remedius-Sacramentary, composed in Chur in about 800, at the time of the Chur Bishop Remedius, one of the most important liturgical texts from that time, containing the prayers used by bishops or priests during the Mass and administration of the sacraments, at the same time also one of the masterpieces of Retro romansh scribal culture in the Carolingian age, decorated with numerous fantastic initial capitals, still influenced by Irish models. Verifiably present in the monastery of St. Gall by about 850. (smu)
Parchment · 124 pp. · 23 x 13.5-14 cm · St. Gall (?) · 8th century
Orationes; Statuta Liturgica et Monastica
This collection of liturgical manuscripts includes the oldest known example of a Collectarium (containing prayers intended to be sung by a choir on major holy days) and various Statuta liturgica et monastica, written in Alemannic minuscule script during the second half of the 8th century at the Abbey of St. Gall (or certainly in the Lake Constance area). (smu)
Parchment · 58 pp. · 22.5 x 14.5 cm · Chur (?) · 8th-9th century
Sacramentarium Gelasianum
This fragment of a Sacramentary of Rhaetian provenance (the Sacramentarium Gelasianum) is important in terms of liturgical scholarship; it was produced near the end of the 8th century in Chur and was recorded shortly thereafter among the holdings of the Abbey of St. Gall. The manuscript is closely related to the Sacramentarium Gelasianum of Codex 348, also of Rhaetian origin. (smu)
Parchment · 186 pp. · 16–17 x 11–12.5 cm · St. Gallen (?) · 13th and 14th century
Gradual; Sequences
The manuscript is bound in a cardboard binding of the eighteenth/nineteenth century. It has two parts written at different times. The first part (pp. 3–120) begins with a fragmentary gradual (it starts on the Wednesday after the Third Sunday in Advent), written in the thirteenth century. The melodies are noted in staffless neumes. Following the Sundays after Pentecost, the part concludes with alleluia-verses (pp. 118–120). The second part (pp. 121–186), containing sequences without melodies, comes from the fourteenth century. In two parts of the codex is bound a quire from a gradual probably written in the thirteenth/fourteenth century: pp. 11–26 (in the middle of the introitus to the feast of the Holy Innocents), the propers for the first Sunday of Advent to the first Sunday after Christmas; pp. 159–174 (in the middle of the All Saints’ sequence), the chants for the period from the Wednesday after the first Sunday of Lent to Holy Saturday. (sno)
Parchment · 178 pp. · 18.5 × 13.4 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 11th century
Mess-Ordo
Praeparatio ad missam (p. 2-63) and Benedictiones (p. 66-177), written by a single hand. This undecorated liturgical manuscript contains scarcely any corrections or later additions and shows slight signs of usage. (dor)
Parchment · 237 pp. · 36.5 x 26.1 cm · St. Gall · 1463-1491
Missale
Pontifical missal of St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch (1463-1491). The manuscript consists of two parts: the first part (p. 5-102) was written by the Wiblingen conventual Simon Rösch, the second part (p. 103-236) was perhaps not added until after the death of Abbot Ulrich Rösch. Only the prefaces (p. 83-102) have melodies in German plainsong notation ("Hufnagelnotation") on 5 lines. There is also the abbot’s coat of arms (p. 5) and an image of the crucifixion with medallions of the four evangelists (p. 70). Several pages have book decorations in the form of borders and initials, sometimes with gold leaf. (sno)
Parchment · 178 pp. · 28 x 12.5 cm · St. Gall · around 922-925
Cantatorium
The so-called "Cantatorium of St. Gall", the earliest complete extant musical manuscript in the world with neume notation. It contains the solo chants of the Mass and constitutes one of the main sources for the reconstruction of Gregorian chant. Written and provided with fine neumes in the monastery of St. Gall between 922 and 926. Bound in a wooden box with an ivory panel on the front cover, most likely Byzantine c. 500, depicting scenes from the fight of Dionysos against the Indians. The ivory panel was once the possession of Charlemagne. (smu)
Parchment · 34 pp. · 25.5 x 8 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Hymni (XXVII) Sangallenses in processionibus
A St. Gall Processional from about 1150, carried in processions, both within the cloister itself and also around the surrounding area which now comprises the city of St. Gall; bound in a long wooden protective case to protect it from the effects of the weather. It contains hymns and litanies to be sung during processions, most of them composed by the monks of St. Gall during the 9th and 10th centuries; includes neumes. (smu)
Parchment · 142 pp. · 29.5-30 x 19.5 cm · first half of the 12th century
Gradual
Gradual from St. Gall, dating from the first half of the 12th century. It contains the solo chants of the Mass, with finely executed neumes and some illuminated initials. Preceded by a Calendar with necrological notes from the monastery of St. Gall dating from between the 13th and 15th century and at the lower margins a catalogue of relics from the 14th century. (smu)
Paper · 335 pp. · 30.5 x 21.5 cm · Dominican Cloister of St. Gall (Elisabeth Muntprat) · 1483
Plenary from the Dominican Cloister of St. Gall
German language lectionary with the Epistles and Gospel readings according to the Church year (Proprium de tempore; Proprium de sanctis and Commune sanctorum) from the Dominican Cloister of St. Katharina in St. Gall, copied in the year 1483 from a model belonging to the Cloister of St. Katherine in Nurnberg by Elisabeth Muntprat, one of the convent’s most diligent scribes. Texts from the manuscript were read aloud during the Dominican nuns’ meals. Several colored woodcuts are pasted into the manuscript, which came to the Abbey Library of St. Gall around 1780. (smu)
Parchment · 376 pp. · 28-28.4 x 18-18.4 cm · beginning of the 9th century
Lectionarium plenarium
This unadorned manuscript, which was probably not produced in St. Gall, is a double lectionary or Lectionarium plenarium sive „Comes duplex“. The lectionary follows the pericope practice of the city of Rome and contains all the readings for the Mass (Old Testament / Acts of the Apostles, letters and gospels). It begins with Christmas but is defective in the beginning. (sno)
Parchment · 254 pp. · 34.5 x 22.5 cm · Reichenau · second quarter of the 9th century
Evangelistary
According to new research, the so-called Evangeliary of Wolfcoz - an early masterpiece from the second quarter of the 9th century - was created not at the St. Gall Monastery, but instead in the scriptorium at Reichenau under the librarian Reginbert. This new conclusion was reached on the basis of paleographic studies as well as later-added pericopes on the Reichenau saints George, Mark and Pancras (p. 201-219). (smu)
Parchment · 108 pp. · 33-33.5 x 25.5 cm · Konstanz · about 1470/80
Latin Gospel readings
A volume of the Gospels, made to order for an unknown customer in about 1470/1480, possibly in the workshop of the book illustrator Rudolf Stahel of Konstanz. It contains Latin Gospel readings for the most important holy days of the church year. Illustrated by at least two artists with 21 full-page illustrations, including the symbols of the four evangelists and representations of the most important holy days throughout the year. In 1658 the volume was presented by the court official Fidel von Thurn to Abbot Gallus Alt (1654-1687) and decorated by a book illuminator with his crest. (smu)
Parchment · 83 pp. · 38 x 26.5-27 cm · Augsburg · 16th century
Canon missae
A volume of canonical readings for the mass, opulently illuminated for Bishop of Augsburg Marquard von Berg (1575-11591), with a heraldic crest page, a full-page miniature, many scenes along the lower margin representing the important holy days of the church year, and artful flowers and flowerlike ornaments, possibly by Nurnberg book illustrator Sebastian Glockendon the Younger. The manuscript came into the possession of soldiers during the Thirty Years War and was later sold to the St. St. Gall monk and Vicar of Wil, Bernhard Hartmann, who presented it in 1641 to St. Gall Abbot-Bishop Pius Reher (1630-1654). (smu)
Parchment and paper · 82 pp. · 36.5 x 29.5 cm · Hagenwil, Syfrid Brüstlin · 1418 (entries until 17th century)
Goldach Necrology
According to an entry on p. 64, the Goldach necrology was created in 1418 by Syfrid Brüstlin, priest at Hagenwil. The first part (pp. 11-58) is arranged according to the Roman calendar and contains entries by several hands, mainly from the 15th and 16th centuries. Sometimes only the name of the deceased person is mentioned, other entries are more detailed and give information about donations. The second part (pp. 59-80) contains remarks on individual donations. This part is mainly in Brüstlin’s hand and continues into the 17th century. (sno)
Parchment · II + 320 pp. · 25.5 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall (possibly) · third quarter of the 11th century
Epistolary
Epistolary originating from Reichenau/St. Gall, illustrated with a portrait of the epistle-writer Saint Paul and five painted Christological miniatures from the third quarter of the 11th century. (smu)
Parchment · 220 pp. · 25.5 x 20 cm · St. Gall (?) · 11th century
Lectionary
This manuscript contains the epistles, the readings from the Old Testament and the readings from the Gospel for the period from Christmas Eve until Easter Sunday (pp. 1-144), from the Thursday after the first of Advent until the end of the Advent season (pp. 145-155), and for the saints’ days (pp. 156–218). Several quires seem to have come out between pp. 144 and 145, since the greater part of the readings for Easter Sunday, for the feasts between Easter and the last Sunday after Pentecost, as well as for the first Sunday of Advent are missing. The decoration consists of several initials with scroll ornamentation in red ink (pp. 1, 4, 131, 144 and 156). 15th century entries (foliation, references, neumes in the Passion according to Matthew, pp. 98–104) attest that this codex was in use for a long time. (sno)
Parchment · 845 pp. · 21 x 16 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 11th century
Gradual and lectionary with epistles and Gospels
Deluxe manuscript for the celebration of feast day masses in the monastery of St. Gall, written and illustrated with numerous initials around the middle of the 11th century. Contains a gradual with neumes and a Lectionary with the readings for the liturgical year. (smu)
Parchment · 436 pp. · 26.3 x 18.5 cm · St. Gall · middle of the 11th century
Calendar, Computus, Tropary, Gradual, Sequentiary
Deluxe manuscript for the celebration of the Mass in the monastery of St. Gall, dating from 1050/70, containing sequences of the St. St. Gall monk "Notker the Stammerer" (died 912). (smu)