Entstehungsort: St. Gallen

Entstehungszeit: AD 872-883 (Abbacy of Hartmut)

Beschreibstoff: Parchment

Umfang: 137 leaves (pp. 5-278; there are no leaves numbered pp. 1-2 and 3-4)

Format: 35.5 x 27.0 cm

Lagenstruktur: Pp. 5-84 = "a-e" [I-V]8, pp. 85-104 = "f" [VI]10, pp. 105-168 = "g-k" [VII-X]8, pp. 169-186 = (unsigned) [X]10 (wants 3), pp. 187-218 = "m-n" [XI-XII]8, pp. 219-238 = "o" [XIII]10, pp. 239-250 = "p" [XIV]6, pp. 251-266 = "q" [XV]8, pp. 267-278 = “r” [XVI]6. [Provisional foliation by JAW on the basis of the images; the lowercase letters in quotation marks are the original quire signatures still visible in the manuscript, while the Roman numerals are quire numbers assigned by JAW.]

Seiteneinrichtung: Two columns of 28 lines (250 x 205 mm (Bruckner)).

Schrift und Hände: Probably two hands writing Caroline minuscule, with rubrics in rustic capitals. (Euw)

Einband: Bound in boards covered with unadorned leather, without visible bands on the spine, and on the fore-edge two leather closure-straps which appear to be later replacements. A parchment contents-slip (s. xv, according to Bruckner) pasted on front cover reads: Libri quinque sancti Gregorii pape moralium explanationum in Iob a uigisimno tercio usque ad uigisimum septimum.

Entstehung der Handschrift: St. Gallen; probably volume five of the six-volume set referenced by an addition to the 9th-c. booklist in CSG 728 (p. 6, line 13).