Dold, Alban (1882-1960)
The incompletely preserved Edictum Rothari is the oldest extant copy of the early medieval law of the Lombards as decreed by King Rothari (636-652) in 643. This earliest known copy, dating from 670/680 and originating in Bobbio (?) has been preserved only as fragments divided between the Abbey Library of St. Gall, the Badische Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe, the Zentralbibliothek in Zurich and the Zurich cantonal archives. The largest portion of the fragments, which were bound together in the present volume by Abbey Librarian Ildefons von Arx in 1822, is found at the Abbey Library of St. Gall. In 1972, the fragmental parchment leaves of the Edictum Rothari owned by the Abbey Library of St. Gall were rebound into a new volume, in a fashion that does not exactly follow conservational guidelines, together with black and white photos of the fragments that are in Karlsruhe and Zurich. The photos were then removed from this by restorer Martin Strebel in 2008. At the same time, this manuscript, which is significant to the history of law, was rebound using the latest book restoration techniques, thanks to the Friends of the Abbey Library of St. Gall, which covered the costs of the work.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Dold, Alban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Dold, Alban (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Dold, Alban (Librarian) | Hauntinger, Blasius (Librarian) | Henne, Josef Anton (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Rothari, Langobardenreich, König (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Dold, Alban (Librarian) | Hauntinger, Blasius (Librarian) | Henne, Josef Anton (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Rothari, Langobardenreich, König (Author) Found in: Additional description
Cod. Sang. 1397 is one of eight fragment volumes (that is, volumes that contain exclusively fragments) of the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Between 1774 and 1785, the St. Gall monks Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756–1823) and Ildefons von Arx (1755–1833) detached numerous fragments from bindings in which they had served for centuries as pastedowns, flyleaves, spine linings, and endleaf guards. At an advanced age, Ildefons von Arx had the fragments bound in eight thematically-organized bindings and dedicated these in 1822 to his friend Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger. Chiefly in the twentieth century, researchers found additional, small fragments in bindings, from which they were then removed and added to the existing fragment volumes or into the collection of fragments. From 2005 to 2006 the extensive fragment volume Cod. Sang. 1397 was disbound for conservation reasons. The fragments were rebound (in the same sequence) in 23 folders (“Ganzpapierbroschuren”). The new, now authoritative pagination begins with 1 in each folder and includes only the fragments (and not the empty paper leaves). To be cited (for example): St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1397.1, pp. 1-2 (= Cod. Sang. 1397, Folder 1, pages 1-2). The twenty-third folder of Cod. Sang. 1397 contains fragments from five manuscripts, chiefly psalters, from the tenth to the twelfth century.
Online Since: 09/06/2023
- Dold, Alban (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
- Dold, Alban (Annotator) Found in: Standard description