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  • Euw Anton von, Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts, Band I: Textband, St. Gallen 2008 (Monasterium Sancti Galli, Bd. 3), S. 370-371, Nr. 71.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 206
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Manuscript title: Gregorius [papa I.], Moralium pars prima
Place of origin: St. Gallen
Date of origin: AD 872-883 (Abbacy of Hartmut)
Support: Parchment
Extent: 162 leaves (pp. 1-324)
Format: 35.6 x 27.0 cm
Collation: Pp. 1-32 = I-II8, pp. 33-42 = III6 (wants 6), pp. 43-46 = IV2, pp. 47-78 = V-VI8, pp. 79-90 = VII6, pp. 91-106 = VIII8, pp. 107-118 = IX6, pp. 119-132 = [X]8 (wants 8), pp. 133-180 = XI-XIII8, pp. 181-198 = XIV10 (wants 6), pp. 199-230 = [XV-XVI]8, pp. 231-312 = XVII-XXI8, pp. 313-324 = [XXII]8 (wants 7, 8). [Provisional foliation by JAW on the basis of the images.]
Page layout: Two columns of 28 lines (written space: 253 x 205 mm (Bruckner)).
Writing and hands: Multiple Caroline hands, with rubrics in square capitals; later annotations by various hands, including that of Ekkehard IV.
Binding: Bound (s. XV, according to Bruckner) in leather-covered boards with metal bosses (of which nine out of the original ten survive), and the remains of two clasps.
Contents:
  • 1. p. 1-324 Gregorius [papa I.]: Moralia in Iob I-V >In nomine dei summi incipit epistola beati gregorii papae urbis rome ad leandrum episcopum.< Reuerentissimo et sanctissimo fratri leandro coepiscopo gregorius seruus seruorum dei. Dudum te frater beatissime in constantinopolitana urbe cognoscens …–… nisi qui adhuc indesideriis huius saeculi infirmatur. >Explicit liber quintus.<
    Index Reference Number
    • CPL 1708
    Editions
    • Gregorius Magnus. Moralia in Iob, ed. M. Adriaen (CCSL 143). Turnhout: Brepols, 1979, p. 1-283.
    • Sanctus Gregorius Magnus. Moralium libri, sive Expositio in librum B. Job. PL 75: 509-730. Google Books
    Translation
    • Gregory the Great. Morals on the Book of Job (A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church 18). Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1844, p. 1-311.
    For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
Origin of the manuscript: St. Gallen; probably volume one of the six-volume set referenced by an addition to the 9th-c. booklist in CSG 728 (p. 6, line 13).
Codicological Bibliography
  • Bruckner, Albert. Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica (Vol. 3). Geneva: Roto-Sadag, 1938, p. 82.
  • Euw, Anton von. Die St. Galler Buchkunst vom 8. bis zum Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts (Vol. 2). St. Gallen: Verlag am Klosterhof, 2009, p. 370-71.
  • Scherrer, Gustav. Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibiliothek von St. Gallen. Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1875, p. 75-76. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen