Manuscript Summary:Incompletely preserved benedictional, written on strong parchment in the Monastery of St. Gall in the first half of the 11th century. This volume contains prayers and benedictions for various liturgical ceremonies, for example for the blessing of the chalice, for the blessing of salt and water for driving out demons, for the consecration of monks and secular priests, for the blessing of plants on the Feast of the Assumption of Mary, etc. In three places (p. 23-26, p. 65-66, p. 90-94) the manuscript contains litanies in which the names of saints of St. Gall appear. Before the pagination around 1780, pages were cut out of the manuscript in five different places; the manuscript shows signs of use into the 15th century.(smu)
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 395
Parchment · 156 pp. · 21.7 × 15.5 cm · Monastery of St. Gall · first half of the 11th century
Benedictional from the Monastery of St. Gall
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 395, Front cover – Benedictional from the Monastery of St. Gall (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0395)
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