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  • Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, St. Gallen II, Genf 1938, S. 73
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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 55.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 147
Manuscript title: Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana
Place of origin: St. Gall
Date of origin: s. IX 2/2 (Bruckner)
Support: Parchment
Extent: 278 pp (276 + 41a-b)
Format: 16.2-4 x 24.5-6 cm
Collation: Contemporary quire signatures, possibly in the hand of one of the two main scribes, are visible from p. 148 ('I') to p. 276 ('VIIII'); the remains of a different run of signatures are visible on p. 90 ('VI') and p. 122 ('VIII'); the quires are generally quaterniones, but pp. 123-134 appear to be a ternio (Bruckner indicates that pp. 121-134 is a quinio, which is almost certainly an error). [This foliation based on Bruckner, supplemented by examination of the page-images.]
Condition: Old holes in the parchment, which is arranged HFHF and FHFH. White flesh side, yellowish hair side.
Page layout: Single column, 21 lines per page. Written area 13.2 (or 11.5) by 17.5-7 cm. (Bruckner)
Writing and hands: Two hands in a neat minuscule, in black and rust coloured ink. One ninth-century annotation on p. 2. (Bruckner)
Decoration: Titles in red rustics. Red initials.
Additions: Table of contents from the fifteenth century on p. 2 (De dilectione...'). Some later marginalia, perhaps by Ekkehart IV, and by a humanist hand of the sixteenth century, p. 65, 80, 84, 85 etc..
Binding: In a yellow-gray leather binding of the fifteenth century. Three frets, two leather closures of braided leather with brass plates, brass pins on the front cover. Front cover note (s. XV): Quatuor libri de doctrina christiana Aurelii Augustini episcopi. Listed in several St Gall catalogues: CSG 728 (s. IX), p. 8 (ed. Lehmann, MBKDS, p. 74.8); CSG 267 + 614 (s. IX), ed. Lehmann, MBKDS, p. 84.5-6; 1461 catalogue, MBKDS, p. 105.37. (Bruckner)
Contents:
  • 1. p. 3-276 Augustinus: De Doctrina Christiana >Incipit liber I aurelii augustini episcopi ecclesiae catholicae de doctrina christiana< Sunt praecepta quaedam tractandarum …–… facultate disserui; explicit liber quartus aurelii augustini episcopi de doctrina christiana
    Index Reference Numbers
    • CPL 263
    Editions
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, ed. M. Moreau, in: La Doctrine Chrétienne (Œuvres de saint Augustin 11/2). Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1997. Not a critical edition but uses a corrected version of the Latin text found in the CCSL edition. Includes French translation
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, ed. R.P.H. Green. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995 Not a critical edition but offers an improved Latin text with English translation
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, ed. W. Green (CSEL 80). Vienna: Hoelder-Pichler-Tempsky, 1963. Critical edition that uses this manuscript, reporting it by siglum S (cf. p. XVIII-XIX)
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, ed. J. Martin (CCSL 32). Turnhout: Brepols, 1962. Critical edition but does not use this MS.
    Translations
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, trans. M. Moreau, in: La Doctrine Chrétienne (Œuvres de saint Augustin 11/2). Paris: Institut d'Études Augustiniennes, 1997. Not a critical edition but uses a corrected version of the Latin text found in the CCSL edition. Includes French translation
    • Augustinus. De Doctrina Christiana, trans. R.P.H. Green. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. Not a critical edition but offers an improved Latin text with English translation
    Bibliography
    • For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA
    • 1_1. (p. 3-12) Prologus
    • 1_2. (p. 12-57) Liber I
    • 1_3. (p. 58-134) Liber II
    • 1_4. (p. 135-192) Liber III
    • 1_5. (p. 192-276) Liber IV
Codicological Bibliography
  • Bruckner, Albert. Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz: St. Gallen II (Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3). Geneva: Roto-Sadag, 1938, p. 73.
  • Scherrer, Gustav. Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen. Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1875, p. 55. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen