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Sub-project: Another thirty medieval manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall

June 2012 - February 2013

Status: Completed

Financed by: Kanton St.Gallen Kulturförderung / Swisslos, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Description: Support from the St. Gall lottery fund has enabled e-codices to make accessible 30 more medieval manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall. The digital reproduction of this selection of manuscripts was made possible in 2010 by support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 403
Parchment · 638 pp. · 24 x 13.8 cm · Disentis Monastery · 1150/1200
12th Century Breviary from the monastery of Disentis

This is a collection of liturgical works from the monastery of Disentis, written in the second half of the 12th century, most likely around 1200. In sequence, the volume contains a calendar (pp. 2-13), a psalter (pp. 15-90) and a hymnary (pp. 91-110), a (mixed) capitulary and collectarium (pp. 116-186), as well as an antiphonary, a lectionary, and a homiliary (pp. 203-638). Highlights from the point of view of manuscript decoration include the initial “B” at the beginning of the psalter (p. 15) and a picture of the crucifixion (p. 89). This breviary is one of the very few surviving medieval manuscripts from the monastery of Disentis. The manuscript came to Kempten around 1300; as early as the 15th century, the Disentis Breviary was held in the Abbey Library of St. Gall. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 422
Parchment · 248 pp. · 26.8 x 18 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
St. Gall Lectionary and Homilary

Lectionary and homilary for the period from Pentecost to the last Sunday after Pentecost, meticulously written by a variety of hands at the monastery ofSt. Gall in the first half of the 9th century. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 437
Parchment · 295 (296) pp. · 37 x 25.5 cm · Ittingen · first half of the 13th century
Lectionary for the Matins and antiphonary

This codex, written in the 13th century, contains a lectionary for Matins for the saints’ days and an antiphonary for the entire liturgical year. The antiphonary bears the title In nomine domini incipiunt antiphone secundum morem Marbacensis ecclesie. Nevertheless, this is probably not a manuscript from the reformed monastery of Marbach in Alsace. Based on the offices, which indicate a connection with St. Gall, it must rather be assumed that the manuscript originated in the monastery of the Canons Regular of St. Lawrence in Ittingen, which belonged to the monastery of St. Gall, but which followed the Consuetudines of Marbach. The fly leaf (p. 2/1) contains a large part of the Office of St. Gallus, probably from a manuscript from the 10th/11th century. Readings as well as chants (the latter ones with neumes) are recorded. The order of the responses and antiphons does not match that of the Hartker antiphonary, Cod. Sang. 391. (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 448
Parchment · 232 pp. · 31 x 21 cm · St. Gall · around 1432 / after 1446
Liber Ordinarius of Hersfeld / Ordinarium Sangallense

Liber Ordinarius from the second quarter of the 15th century with liturgical instructions for the mass of the monks of St. Gall during the presence of reformist monks from the monastery ofHersfeld between 1430 and 1439. The Liber Ordinarius, dated 1432 (p. 36), seems to have been made for the monastery ofSt. Gall following a model from Hersfeld (in the northeast of Hesse); however, some parts are not yet adapted for the monastery ofSt. Gall. The calendar at the beginning of the manuscript can be unambiguously located in St. Gall. Between the various parts of the manuscript, repeatedly there are empty pages. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 609
Paper · 441 pp. · 32/33 x 22 cm · middle of the 16th century
Composite manuscript by Aegidius Tschudi, containing a copy of the Rhaetian Urbarium (imperial land survey) from the middle of the 9th century

This composite manuscript from the estate of the humanist Aegidius Tschudi (1505-1572) of Glarus consists of 12 individual sets of papers, purchased by the monastery ofSt. Gall in 1768 and bound in the years thereafter. This volume, mostly written by Tschudi himself, contains, among others, lists of bishops and other important office holders in the dioceses of Konstanz, Strasbourg, Basel and Chur; documents concerning the history of the Monasteries of St. Gall, Einsiedeln, Muri, Pfäfers, Engelberg and their abbots; a German copy of the vita of St. Meinrad; copies of documents of several southern German monasteries; and – the most important text – the only surviving copy of excerpts from the "Reichsgutsurbar" of Churrätien from the first half of the 9th century. The original did not survive; it was no longer available at the time of Tschudi, who instead copied an incomplete version from the 10th to 12th century. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 635
Parchment · 243 pp. · 23 x 14/14.5 cm · Northern Italy · around 800
Paulus Diaconus, Historia Longobardorum

This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the Historia Longobardorum (History of the Langobards) by the Langobard monk and author Paulus Diaconus († 797/799), who was active in Montecassino. It was written in northern Italy, possibly in Verona, around 800 by a variety of hands. The volume has been at the monastery of St. Gall since the 9th century already. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 681
Parchment · 228 pp. · 18 x 12.5 cm · Middle Rhine / Main-Franconia / Hesse in part perhaps Lorsch · second-third quarter of the 11th century
Florus Lugdunensis, Invectio canonica; Pascasius Radbertus, De corpore et sanguine domini; Herigerus Lobiensis, De corpore et sanguine domini

This manuscript, written in the area of the Middle Rhine/Main-Franconia/Hesse in the 2nd-3rd quarter of the 11th century, preserves mainly theological tracts by Florus of Lyon, Paschasius Radbertus and Heriger of Lobbes, but also contains interlinear glosses, detailed marginalia and an added Epistula de vulture. In 1768 the manuscript came to the Abbey Library of St. Gall as part of the estate of Aegidius Tschudi (1505–1572). (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 711
Parchment · 240 pp. · 29 x 20.5 cm · Engelberg · second half of the 12th century
Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas"

This manuscript from the 2nd half of the 12th century preserves the Abbreviatio Decreti "Quoniam egestas", an abridged version of the Decretum Gratiani, complete with glosses. The text represents the oldest datable record of the study of the Decretum Gratiani in France. The script and book decoration indicate that the manuscript was probably produced in Engelberg during the time of Frowin. Since 1461, it has been at the monastery of St. Gall. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1093
Parchment · 1 f. · 419.5 x 11.5 cm · end of the 14th century
Mirabilia Romae; Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae

This manuscript has the form of a parchment scroll; it consists of six narrow strips of parchment, each about 60-80 cm long, sewn together lengthwise. It is a pilgrims’ guide through the city of Rome und consists of two texts: mostly in the form of a list, the Mirabilia Romae describe the structures of the city of Rome – walls, temples, palaces, squares, thermal baths, theaters, etc. In this version, this part begins with a short historical introduction from the Chronicle of Martin of Opava. It is followed by the Indulgentiae ecclesiarum urbis Romae as a second part, an enumeration of the churches of Rome with their relics and the indulgences to be obtained there. (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1140
Paper · 717 pp. · 20.4 x 14 cm · Cistercian nuns’ cloister Günterstal · second third of the 15th century
Liturgical manuscript with Latin and German texts from the monastery of Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau

This is a liturgical manuscript from the Cistercian nuns’ cloister Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau, written partly in Latin and partly in German. The manuscript was bought in the year 1782 by the St. St. Gall monk Gall Metzler (1743-1820), parish priest in Ebringen near Freiburg, which was owned by St. Gall. Among other texts, the manuscript contains readings from a martyrology and from the Rule of Saint Benedict for the months of September and October; pericopes from the Epistles and from the Gospels for Sundays and saints’ days in September; legends of the saints according to the Alsatian Legenda Aurea for the month of September; German language texts from the Old Testament books of Tobit, Judith, and Esther as well as version B2 of the Dekalogerklärung by Marquard of Lindau. Together with Cod. Sang. 1141 and Cod. Sang. 1142, as well as probably six more now lost volumes, this manuscript was part of a large Günterstal lectionary, containing sermons as well as martyrological and liturgical texts. Here and there throughout the volume, a prior loss of pages can be noted (e.g. between p. 350 and p. 351); between the various parts, there frequently are blank pages. (smu)

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