Manuscript Summary:This codex, written by multiple hands, contains a nearly complete copy of Conrad of Megenberg’s natural history (Das Buch der Natur); only a few chapters are missing, some of which are due to a loss of pages. Quires 17 (pp. 371–394) and 18 (pp. 395–418) are bound in the wrong order. A contemporary table of contents introduces each of the parts of the third book (on animals) and of the fourth book (on trees). The numbers of the leaves given there correspond to the individual parts' foliation, which frequently starts over. On the back paper pastedown there is an ownership mark written in the hand that numbered the leaves: sint der bletter CClxxvj bletter vnd ist dz ůrrich [Ulrich] von fulach. This note indicates that a total of 12 leaves have been lost. As the dedication to Abbot Joseph von Rudolphi (Abbot 1717–1740) on the front pastedown shows, this volume was in the Abbey Library of St. Gall by the eighteenth century at the latest.(sno)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 409.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1111
Paper · 528 pp. · 28.5 x 20.5 cm · Southwestern Germany · third quarter of the 15th century
Konrad von Megenberg, Das Buch der Natur
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1111, p. 79 – Konrad von Megenberg, Das Buch der Natur (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/1111)
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 409.
Manuscript title: Das Buch der Natur
Date of origin: s. XV
Support: Papier
Extent:
276 ungezeichnete Blätter
Format: 2°
Condition: von vorn unvollständig
Page layout:
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Contents:
Das Buch der Natur
Mit Vielen naturhistorischen Mährchen.
Filiation: Verfasst a.° 1349 von Conrad von Megenberg; gedruckt o. O. u. J. in Folio (Stiftsbiblioth. BB. No. 42) u. öfter. Neu herausgegeben von F. Pfeiffer Stuttgart 1863. 8°. Es gibt sehr viele Handschriften z. B. in München 16, in Wien 8 u. s. w.
Origin of the manuscript: Dem Abt Joseph dedicirt (auf dem vordern Deckel) und Eigenthum des "Ulrich von Fulach" (hinterer Deckel)
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