Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Samuel I and II and Kings III and IV).The second volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Online Since: 12/12/2006
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Paralipomenon I and II, Judith, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah and Maccabees I and II).
Online Since: 12/12/2006
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus - also called Sirach, Job, Tobit). A volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Online Since: 06/12/2006
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and the minor prophets.) A volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Online Since: 12/12/2006
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing the Pauline Epistles, the Acts and Revelations. The last volume (6) of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel".
Online Since: 12/12/2006
Exegesis of St Luke's Gospel by Beda Venerabilis, written by the monk and master scribe Wolfcoz around 820/840.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
A copy of the sermons of the early Christian theologian Origen (185-254) on the Old Testament books of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus, produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
An excellently crafted copy of the ten-part commentary of the Greek theologian Origen (185-253/54) on the Epistle to the Romans (Commentarii in epistulas ad Romanos), produced in the Cloister of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
This manuscript of collected works is important to textual history and contains various works by Bishop Cyprian of Carthage († 258), including De dominica oratione, De mortalitate and De opere et eleemosynis, together with a tract by an unknown Irish author, De duodecim abusivis saeculi written by an unknown author, and the invocation of Gregory of Nazianz to the residents of Nazianz in Latin translation (Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem) copied near the end of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
This manuscript contains a Latin language copy of the Altercatio contra Arrium by the church father Athanasius that is significant to textual history, together with one of the five oldest copies of the Epistola adversus Luciferianum hereticum by the church father Jerome, probably made by the St. St. Gall monk Rifine during the second half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
Copies of various works by the church father Ephraem the Syrian in Latin, written in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century. Among them are the works De iudicio dei et resurrectione, De beatitudine animae, De poenitentia, De luctaminibus and De die iudicii et monita. The leaves of the last portion of the manuscript, which contains Sermon 60 of Caesarius of Arles, were previously folded.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
Copies of assorted shorter sermons in Latin by Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), some of them incomplete, including De compunctione cordis, De iudiciis dei and De beatitudine animarum, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
A not particularly good quality copy of three letters by Ambrose, three chapters from the work De fide contra Arianos by Faustinus, the report (Relatio) by the Roman Prefect Symmachus (about 342-402/403) about the conflict over the altar of Victoria, and the oration of Augustine against the Arians (Contra sermonem Arrianorum) preceded by the oration of the Arians (Sermo Arrianorum). This Codex was produced in the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A superior quality St. Gallen copy of the work De fide ad Gratianum contra perfidiam Arrianorum from the 9th century, from the original by the early church Father Ambrose (about 339 - 397). The 9th century Carolingian binding remains intact.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A summary presentation of Christian ethics by the early church father Ambrose (about 339 - 397), De officiis ministrorum. This copy is from around 900, probably not produced in the monastery of St. Gall. A short Psalter, a litany, and prayers precede the work by Ambrose.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A collection of the dogmatic works De spiritu sancto libri tres ad Gratianum and Libri tres de incarnatione contra Apollinaristes, both originally written by the early church father Ambrose († 397) together with De laude sanctorum by Bishop Victricius of Rouen († before 409). A northern French copy from the middle of the 9th century, probably not produced at the monastery of St. Gall, but rather in the area of Metz. The manuscript opens with six dedicatory verses by the priest Regimarus to King Ludwig the German (833-876) in Latin hexameter.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of the exegesis of the Gospel of Luke by Ambrosius, set down by several St. Gall monks in the 9th century.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
A copy of the so-called "Ambrosiaster", a commentary on the Epistles of Paul, for a long time erroneously attributed to the Church father Ambrose (about 339-397), produced in the abbey of St. Gall at the beginning of the 9th century. The actual author of the Ambrosiaster is unknown.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of the a commentary on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Romans and the Corinthians (the so-called Ambrosiaster), produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
This copy of the so-called Chrysostomus Latinus is significant in terms of textual history study. This collection of 38 sermons and other works attributed to the early church father John Chrysostom (349/50-407) includes both ancient Latin translations of original works in Greek reliably attributable to John Chrysostom, and also some pieces originally written in Latin, the contents of some of which are identified and some are not, for which the celebrated sermonist is claimed as the author. A St. Gall copy from the second half of the 9th century.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A composite manuscript from the Abbey of St. Gall, consisting mainly of two parts. The first part includes a copy of the life of St. Martin of Tours, originally written by Sulpicius Severus sometime after 400 AD. This life of St. Martin, into which 5 pages containing an excerpt from the Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours have been inserted, was copied in two phases, one during the first half of the 9th century under the supervision of the scribe Wolfcoz and another during the second half of the 9th century. The second part, written in the 10th century at the Abbey of St. Gall, contains a copy of the medical tract De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus by the late Roman physician Cassius Felix (about 450) that is significant to textual history.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
A copy of the commentary by a Pseudo-Jerome (Pseudo-Hrabanus Maurus) on the Old Testament book of Job; produced in the 9th century, possibly at the abbey of St. Gall; still in its original Carolingian-period binding.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
This manuscript contains one of the few copies of the Scarpsum de dictis sancti Effrem prope fine mundi, here rendered as Sermo sancti Ysidori, ascribed to Isidor of Seville, and the psalm commentaries of Jerome (or a Pseudo-Jerome?), produced in northern Italy (possibly Monza) about the end of the 8th century.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
A composite manuscript consisting of two distinct parts: 1) a 9th century St. Gall copy of the commentary of Jerome on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes and the commentary of Bishop Justus of Seu de Urgel (Urgelitanus) on the Song of Songs, 2) a collection of manuscripts of mainly patristic content, including excerpts from the works of Jerome, Benedict, Eucherius and Augustine. The manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, is also called the Egino-Codex and is supposed to have been produced in about the year 800 at the cloister of Reichenau by a group of Veronese scribes who had settled on the island of Reichenau together with their former (Veronese) bishop (796-799) Egino after he stepped down from his office.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
A copy of the commentaries of the church father Jerome († 420) on chapters 14 through 18 of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, written at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. On the first and last pages are pen tests from the 11th through 15th centuries, including three Old High German proverbs from the compendium of dialectic De partibus logicae by St. St. Gall monk and teacher Notker the German, a blessing for pigs and a recipe for ink. On the inside of front and back covers are impressions in the glue left by portions of text from the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sang. 730), which were once attached to the wooden cover of this manuscript.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
A copy of the exegesis of Books 1-5 of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah by the Church Father Jerome († 420). The codex, created during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall as a copy of Cod. Sang. 113, still retains its original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Isaiah 1-5.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Isaiah 14-18.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Isaiah 6-13.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Jeremiah.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Ezekiel 1-6.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Ezekiel 7-14.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
A copy of the exegesis of the Old Testament prophets Joel and Micah by the Church Father Jerome († 420). This codex, created during the 9th century at the abbey of St. Gall, still retains its original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on Hosea.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
A copy of the exegesis of the Old Testament prophet Amos by the Church Father Jerome († 420). This codex, created during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall, still retains its original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
A copy of the exegesis of the Old Testament prophets Jonah, Nahum, Zephaniah, and Haggai by the Church Father Jerome († 420). This codex was created during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
Exegetical-liturgical collection of works, probably produced around 810/820 in the Cloister of St. Amand in the area of Lille in northern France. It contains, among other items, a commentary on the Gospels by Pseudo-Hieronymus (illustrated with Irish-influenced symbolic representations of the four evangelists), texts by the early church fathers Augustine, Isidore of Seville, the Venerable Bede, a letter from Charlemagne to Alcuin, a baptismal ritual attributed to Bishop Jesse of Amiens († 836/37), and finally an abridged version of the Annals of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
Copies of the commentaries of the Church father Jerome on the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall at the beginning of the 9th century, supplemented with numerous Latin and Old High German glosses, indicating the text was the object of intensive study. At the end of the commentars on the Gospel of Matthew: the name of a monk (?) Ratgar or Radgaer in runic script.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Jerome, commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
A copy of the exegesis of the Letters of Paul to the Ephesians, Titus, and Philemon by the Church Father Jerome († 420). This codex was produced at the beginning of the the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
This composite manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, consists of two parts. The first part was written at the beginning of the 9th century; on pp. 1-74, it contains a copy of the Quaestiones hebraicae in Genesim (addressing questions about the translation of the Book of Genesis from the Hebrew) by the Church Father Jerome († 420), in addition on pp. 74-136 it contains the Expositio in proverbiis Salomonis, an anonymous commentary on the Old Testament Proverbs of Solomon, and on pp. 137-190 the Instituta regularia divinae legis by Junilius Africanus (around 551). The second part is from the end of the 9th century and contains two works by Jerome about Hebrew names for places and people in the Bible: the Liber de situ et nominibus locorum hebraicorum (pp. 191–267) and the Liber interpretationis hebraicorum nominum (pp. 267–355), the end of which is incomplete.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
Copies of Jerome's letter to Ktesiphon (Letter 133) and his Dialogus adversus Pelagianos, the work De vita christiana, ascribed to Pelagius and the work Altercatio Ecclesiae et Synagogae, incorrectly ascribed to Augustine. Produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century, most likely under Abbot Grimald (841-872). Retains the original Carolingian binding; contains corrections in the hand of St. St. Gall monk Notker Balbulus († 912).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
This manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, consists of three parts and was written in Merovingian script by numerous hands, apparently in the late 8th and/or early 9th century, probably at the Abbey of St. Gall. It contains reliable versions of many onomastic texts, including copies of the work Liber de situ et nominibus locorum Hebraicorum by Jerome, the Cosmographia of Aethicus Ister, the chronicles of Isidore of Seville, Chronica maiora and Historia regum Gothorum, Vandalorum Sueborum, as well as an excellent version of the Itinerarium Antonini Placentini, an account of the pilgrimage of a citizen of Piacenza in about 560/570 to the Holy Land.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
This copy of assorted works by Prudentius (348- after 405) is significant to textual history (it includes Kathemerinon, Peristephanon, Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia, Libri contra Symmachum; some works not transmitted in complete versions), produced in the middle 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. This copy contains numerous Latin and Old High German glosses.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
A copy of the Liber exhortationis ... ad quendam comitem by the patriarch Paul of Aquilaeia († 802) , written in or shortly after 900 at the Abbey of St. Gall. For a long time, this text was attributed to the church father Augustine.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
An undecorated composite manuscript containing various short texts and textual excerpts from the writings of Augustine, John Chrysostom and Ambrosius Autpertus († 784) among others, together with the work, then attributed to Seneca, De moribus (145 moral proverbs, which were probably composed by a Christian living in Gaul). The codex was written in about 900 in a Carolingian minuscule, probably in northern France. The back portion contains, in a short selection from Moralia in Iob by Gregory the Great, a small Latin-Old High German textual glossary.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
A copy of Augustine's work De genesi contra manichaeos, written in Carolingian minuscule during the first third of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. The numerous glosses in Latin were added during the 11th century; frequent supposition of their attribution to St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. appears questionable. At the end of the text is an apology by an inexperienced scribe. Original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
A copy of the exegesis of the Gospel of Matthew by the church father Jerome († 420) and his tract De persecutione Christianorum (On the Persecution of Christians), sometimes falsely attributed to Augustine as Sermon 60 of the Sermones ad fratres in eremo. The codex was made during the first quarter of the 9th century, probably not at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
This composite manuscript from the beginning of the 9th century, made up of two parts, was written at the Abbey of St. Gall and remains in its original Carolingian binding. The first part contains two works by the church father Augustine, the sermon De decem chordis and the text De disciplina christiana, as well as the work Adversus quinque haereses by Bishop Quodvultdeus of Carthage († 454). The second part contains, among various other short texts, a copy of the epitaph of Alcuin of York († 804), his book about virtues and vices De virtutibus et vitiis, dedicated to Duke Wido of Nantes, two sermons by Augustine as well as the so-called Dicta Bonifatii. Glosses were added here and there in both parts of the manuscript by the monk Ekkehart IV. during the first half of the 11th century; the codex shows signs of use through the 16th century.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
An important copy of Augustine's work De doctrina christiana in terms of textual history, written during the second half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. In the 1930s fragments of the oldest Vulgate manuscript version of the gospels, from the 5th century, were removed from the binding of this manuscript. These fragments are now found, together with additional fragments of the same manuscript as well as fragments of other texts, in Cod. Sang. 1395.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
This five-part composite manuscript contains, among other items, a number of books of pennance (Poenitentiale Capitula Iudiciorum, Poenitentiale Theodori, Poenitentiale Vinniani, Poenitentiale Sangallense simplex, Poenitentiale Sangallense tripartitum) and writings of the Church Fathers Augustine (including selections from De doctrina christiana, De patientia, Sermo 64 ad fratres in eremo), Gregory the Great, Cyprian, and Gregory of Nazianzus.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
Manuscript collection of Patristic works with selections from the works of Augustine (Retractationes, De octo quaestionibus ex veteri testamento, Enchiridion de fide, spe et caritate), Paschasius Radbertus (Epistola ad Paulam et Eustochium, erroneously attributed to the Church father Jerome), and Gregory the Great, in addition to the Life of the Martyr Quintinus, produced in the second half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
Copy of the Retractationes (Revisions) by the church father Augustine (354-430), produced in the middle of the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. In the Retractationes composed near the end of his life, around 426, Augustine provides a chronologically ordered history of the origins of 93 works he wrote over the course of his life, together with critiques of those works.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of the explication by Augustine of the Sermon on the Mount (De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum) together with selections from his Quaestiones evangeliorum, made in the 9th century. Unlike the second part of the manuscript, the copy of the explication of the Sermon on the Mount in the first part was not made at the Abbey of St. Gall. The composite manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
A copy of lessons or disquisitions 55 through 124 by Augustine on the Gospel of John, made at the Abbey of St. Gall in about 900.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
This codex produced at the Abbey of St. Gall, probably in the time of Abbot Grimald (841-872) or Hartmut (872-883) sometime after 850, contains numerous sermons and selections from sermons by Augustine; in addition it contains excerpts from other works written by Augustine, such as the Enarrationes in psalmos, the Tractatus in Iohannis evangelium and the Confessiones. The manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
Copies of three works by Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus (incomplete), Sermo 101 and – in an excellent version – Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum. On page 1 there is a pen test: Omnis homo primum bonum vinum poni.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
This copy of the work "De baptismo" (On Baptism) by the Church father Augustine (d. 430) is significant in terms of textual history; it was produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
This copy of the commentaries by the Church father Augustine on the first seven books of the Old Testament (the Heptateuch: "Quaestiones in Heptateuchum libri VII") is among the most significant copies in terms of textual history; it was produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
A copy of Augustine's commentary on Genesis De Genesi ad litteram libri XII, written during the second third of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. Contains numerous marginal and interlinear glosses.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
The first of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume contains readings of Psalms 1 through 35, written by many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. Includes a large number of glosses, including some in Old High German by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV from the period after 1000.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
This third of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 51-76, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century under Abbot Grimald (841-872).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
The fourth of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 77 through 100, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall under Abbot Grimald (841-872). Includes assorted later glosses from the first half of the 11th century by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
The second of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 36 through 50, written in many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. During the first half of the 20th century a strip containing textual elements of the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sang. 730) was recovered from Codex 165. On page 278 is a scribal annotation (Uuaningus scripsit) by a monk named Waningus.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
The fifth of a group of originally six volumes containing Augustine's commentary on the Psalms (the sixth volume was missing as early as 1461). Includes some explanatory notes by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV, including two in Old High German.
Online Since: 06/22/2010
A copy of Reichenau man of letters and Abbot Walahfrid Strabo's commentary on Psalms 1-76. On the first pages of this copy are letters from Jerome to Paul (Ep. 30; De alphabeto Hebraeorum) and to Marcella (Ep. 38; De diapsalmate), written with great care at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century. The second part of this commentary on the Psalms by Walahfrid Stabo (on Psalms 77-150) is found in Cod. Sang. 313.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
The main content of this codex is a copy of sermons on the Gospel of John by the church father Augustine, produced sometime after 800. In the front is a Latin version with neumes of the now lost Old High German "Galluslied" (the translation into Latin was done by the monk Ekkehart IV in the first half of the 11th century), originally composed by the monk Ratpert before the year 900. In the back are verses by Ekkehart IV about the paintings in the Romanesque cloister walk at St. Gall. Includes textual glosses by Ekkehart IV.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of Augustine's sermons 22 through 54 on the Gospel of John (In Iohannis Evangelium tractatus), written during the third quarter of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
This copy of the work De consensu evangelistarum libri quattuor by the Church Father Augustine is important to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written during the second half of the 9th century, probably at the Abbey of St. Gall. In the year 2009, a strip containing a portion of text from the Vetus-Latina version of the Gospels from the early 5th century was detached from page 258 of this codex; it is now included with other fragments from the same original manuscript in Cod. Sang. 1394 (pp. 51-88).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written at the Abbey of St. Gall, probably under Abbot Grimald (841-872).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
This codex consists mainly of copies of letters written by the church father Augustine († 430), produced in the second half of the 9th century, possibly in Mainz. A small section at the front and some pages at the end, however, were produced in the 11th century, during the tenure of Ekkehart IV († um 1060), in the Cloister of St. Gall; these sections contain a Latin version of the Old High German "Galluslied" (originally written by the St. St. Gall monk Ratpert), translated by Ekkehart IV, and various excerpts of mathematical and astronomical content.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
This is a copy, produced in St. Gall in the 9th century, of De trinitate libri XV by the Church Father Augustine. His letter to Aurelius (letter 174) serves as a preface to the work. The manuscript remains in its original binding and contains several corrections by the St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV from the 11th century. On p. 356 there is a pen sketch of a man with sword and shield; an almost identical figure can also be found in Cod. Sang. 276, p. 271 (here etched with a stylus).
Online Since: 12/20/2012
A copy of the excerpts of Eugippius († after 533) from the works of Augustine, very popular during the middle ages, produced in the Cloister of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century. In the first half of the 11th century this text was carefully studied by the monk Ekkehart IV, who added numerous remarks and commentaries to it. On the inner side of the back cover are sketches by Ekkehart IV of a carafe-shaped drinking vessel and three accompanying short verses about his fellow monk Crimalt or Crimolt, who was fond of a drink.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
Incomplete copy of De civitate dei by Augustine (Books I-XIV), probably written around the middle of the 9th century in Auxerre in the sphere of Bishop Heribald (cf. p. 452-453). The manuscript was in St. Gall around 860 already, where it was listed, with a Carolingian binding, in the oldest library catalog (Cod. Sang. 728).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
A copy of books 11 through 22 of Augustine's work De civitate dei (The City of God), written in the middle of the 9th century by many hands at the Abbey of St. Gall. Includes numerous glosses by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV from the first half of the 11th century. On the last page are pen tests, including the verse, frequently repeated in St. Gall, Adnexique globum zephyri freta kanna secabant, which contains all letters of the Latin alphabet.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
Commentary on the Epistle of John by the Church Father Augustine. This copy was produced in St. Gall around the first third of the 9th century and remains in its original binding. On p. 1-4 and 239-241, it also contains readings for the liturgy.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
The sermons Homiliae XVIII in Apocalypsin, falsely attributed to Augustine, in a manuscript that was partly incorrectly bound and written by various hands, probably in the Monastery of St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
From the time of Wolfcoz (820-840): Cassian, De constitutione coenobiorum.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
A copy of the work De vita contemplativa by the Gallic priest Julianus Pomerius (5th c.), incorrectly ascribed to Prosper of Aquitaine, produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall, in part by the monk Rihpertus, who included his name in a secret script.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
A 9th century St. Gall copy of the Collectanea rerum memorabilium, which was very popular during the middle ages, by the Roman author Gaius Iulius Solinus. It is a compilation of oddities and curiosities, derived mainly from the natural histories of Pliny and the geographical descriptions of Pomponius Mela. In addition, this codex contains works by Prosper of Aquitaine and the sermon entitled De bono mortis by the church father Ambrose.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
Gallic Bishops' letters from late antiquity: unique to this manuscript - the correspondences of Bishop Desiderius of Cahors (about 590 - 655), and Ruricius of Limoges (about 445 -511). A frequent correspondent: Bishop Faustus of Riez (about 410 - 511). On pages 1 and 37 the manuscript contains the so-called “St. Galler Bienensegen”, the oldest known invocation for bees in the Latin language.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of the catalog of authors assembled by the Church father Jerome (347-420) De viris illustribus (a list of 135 Christian authors from Simon Peter to Jerome himself) together with a list presented in the catalog of authors by Gennadius of Marseille (d. 496) De viris illustribus, with biographies of more than 90 important Christian authors of that time. Produced in the 9th century, though not at the Abbey of St. Gall; already listed in the holdings of St. Gall by 1000.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
An impressive palimpsest-manuscript (with pages containing duplicate texts) of the oldest known texts of the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel and the Minor Prophets. Upper script in Retro-Romanish minuscule from the time around 800 (from Rätien or St. Gall): sermons of Caesarius of Arles (470/71-542), further homilies and sermons, tracts, prayers and lessons. Lower, sometimes difficult to read script in Roman half uncial from northern Italy: fragmentarily preserved Latin bible texts from the Old Testament books of Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
A copy of a tract by the north African theologian Fulgentius Ferrandus (second half of the 6th century) in letter form, addressed to Count Reginus, with a collection of rules for conducting a Christlike life. This copy was made at the Abbey of St. Gall in about 800.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
Educational manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall, produced in the second third of the 9th century; contains mainly the poems (Carmina) of the early Christian Merovingian poet Venantius Fortunatus († 600), with four pattern poems on the Cross, as well as a copy of the Aenigmata (riddles) of a poet named Symphosius or Symposius.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
This composite manuscript, of particular significance in terms of textual history study, consists of at least four distinct parts, written during the 9th and 10th centuries, primarily in the Cloister of St. Gall. The manuscript volume contains, among other items, a Latin prose narrative about the Trojan war from a Greek point of view (De excidio Troiae historia), generally associated with the pseudonym Dictys Cretensis; the 5th century "Troja-Roman" or Trojan epic (Historia de excidio Troiae) published under the pseudonym Dares Phrygius; a copy of the work De spiritalis historiae gestis by Avitus of Vienna; poems by Salomon, Abbot-Bishop of St. Gall (890-920) dedicated to Dado of Vienna, and the Carmen paschale by the Latin-Christian poet Sedulius (5th century). On page 122 is an illustration of the labyrinth of the Minotaur in Knossos on Crete.
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Cassiodorus' textbook on the seven liberal arts, the Institutiones divinarum et saecularium litterarum.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum 1-50 (commentary on Psalms 1 to 50).
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Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum 51-100 (commentary on Psalms 51 to 100).
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Cassiodorus, Expositio psalmorum 101-150 (commentary on Psalms 101 to 150).
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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (commentary on Job): commentary on Job 1-5 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 1 of a six-volume series.
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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (commentary on Job): commentary on Job 6-10 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 2 of a six-volume series.
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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Hiob (Commentary on Job): commentary on Job 23-27 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 5 of a six-volume series.
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Gregory the Great, Moralia in Hiob (Commentary on Job): commentary on Job 28-35 dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872). Volume 6 of a six-volume series.
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Copy of books 32 to 35 of Pope Gregory the Great's Moralia in Hiob, written in Alemannic minuscule at the monastery ofSt. Gall toward the end of the 8th century.
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Gregory the Great, 22 homilies on the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel. Copy dating from the time of Hartmut (dean ca. 850-872).
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Copy of Pope Gregory the Great's homilies 13 to 22 on the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel, written at the monastery ofSt. Gall toward the end of the 8th century in a “gleichmässigen, breiten, gut proportionierten kalligraphischen älteren St. Galler Minuskel” (Bruckner) [uniform, wide, well-proportioned calligraphic older St. Gall minuscule] . The beginning of each homily is decorated with small colored initials.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
The Book of Pastoral Care (Regula Pastoralis) by Gregory the Great, St. Gall copy dating from around 800, bound in a splendid enamel binding from Limoges dating from around 1210/30.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
Manuscript compilation from the late 8th and early 9th centuries, opening with the oldest extant St. Gall copy of the Regula Pastoralis of Gregory the Great from the last third of the 8th century, followed by a medical-pharmaceutical compendium. The latter, parts of it badly bound, consists of the folded reference manual of a wandering physician from northern Italy, the so-called St. Gall Botanicus, and the St. Gall Bestiary.
Online Since: 12/09/2008