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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 11
Paper · 234 ff. · 31.5 x 22 cm · Avignon · 1469
Petrus de Aquila, Quaestiones in quattuor libros sententiarum

During his studies in Avignon, Jean Joly (Guardian of the Franciscan Convent of Fribourg 1467-1469, 1472-1478, 1481-1510) prepared this copy of the Quaestiones in quattuor libros sententiarum by Peter of Aquila, an Italian Franciscan theologian who lectured at Paris in the 1330s. His commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard earned him the nickname “Scotellus” for his accessible presentation of the doctrine of John Duns Scotus (d. 1308). The wooden-board binding and formerly chained volume from the fifteenth century was restored by Carole Jeanneret in 2022. (cam)

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 50
Paper · 233 ff. · 22-22.5 x 15 cm · Fribourg ? · 3rd quarter of the 14th c.
Sermones dominicales (Homiliae)

This anonymous collection of sermons with homilies, chiefly with a Neoplatonic slant, comes from the third quarter of the fourteenth century and probably was written in Fribourg-en-Nuithonie. The volume contains, after a thematic index at the beginning, 18 homilies for the time from Advent to Quinquagesima, 34 homilies from Easter to the twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, and a few Sunday sermons for Lent. The pastedowns are fragments of a Hebrew manuscript in a thirteenth-century Ashkenazi cursive. The book has not been restored, a formerly chained volume with raspberry-red leather cover. (cam)

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 82
Paper · 202 ff. · 20.5-21-5 x 14-15 cm · 14th c.
Exempla; Gesta romanorum; Robertus Holcot; Hugo de Folieto; Nicolaus de Hanapis

This miscellany was assembled by Friedrich von Amberg (Guardian of the Franciscan Convent of Fribourg, † 1432) from various earlier compilations and text fragments. The volume, divided into eight parts, has an extensive collection of exempla (Part 1), excerpts from the Gesta Romanorum (Parts 3, 4, 5 und 6), from the De cognicione of Helinand of Froidmont (Part 2), from Robert Holcot’s Moralitates (Part 6), from Hugh of Folieto’s De avibus (Part 7) and Nicholas of Hanapis‘ Liber de exemplis Sacrae scripturae (Part 8). The back cover and flyleaf contain a large part of a Fribourg charter. The formerly chained volume with a white-leather cover was restored in 2021 by Carole Jeanneret. (cam)

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Fribourg/Freiburg, Couvent des Cordeliers/Franziskanerkloster, Ms. 106
Parchment and paper · 219 ff. · 17-19 x 11.5-15 cm · Fribourg · 1337 (?), end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 15th century
Declarationes papales; Bonaventura; Constitutiones generales et provinciales OFM; Acta et definitiones

This miscellany manuscript contains texts from the end of the thirteenth to the beginning of the fifteenth century in 12 parts, and belonged to Jean Joly (Guardian of the Fribourg Franciscan Convent, 1467-1469, 1472-1478, 1481-1510). The first part of the manuscript consists in a bull of Pope Benedict XII, dated to 1337. The volume essentially contains papal bulls and constitutions as well as statutes of Franciscan Order and determinations of particular provinces of the Franciscan order. A formerly chained volume, it has wooden boards covered with dark brown leather. (cam)

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Solothurn, Staatsarchiv, R 1.4.225
Parchment · 31 ff. · 21 x 14 cm · southern Italy (Salerno) · 12th and 10th c.
Urbarium of Salerno and a palimpsest of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville

The Urbarium of Salerno from the end of the twelfth century records the land holdings of and duties owed to the church of Salerno. Today only 31 unbound leaves remain of the originally larger codex executed in Beneventan minuscule. The urbarium is for the most part a palimpsest: a tenth-century codex of the Etymologiae of Isidore of Seville copied in Beneventan minuscule. (sei)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 321
Paper · 144 pp. · 29 x 21.5 cm · Sitterdorf · 1434 and 14th c.
Theological Miscellany

The paper manuscript contains several texts copied on two columns by different hands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It begins with a martyrology (pp. 1a-80a) that was copied in 1434 and signed by the copyist Ulrich Aeppli, plebanus at Sitterdorf in Thurgau (p. 80a). At least five other manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gall are either entirely or partially from his hand (Cod. Sang. 327; Cod. Sang. 709; Cod. Sang. 786; Cod. Sang. 1078; Cod. Sang. 1076). After a few blank pages (pp. 81-95), one of which is stamped with the seal of the library of St. Gall under the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (p. 81), comes a series of shorter texts copied in the fourteenth century, including sermons (pp. 98a; 98b-100a), the copy of a letter of Pope Gregory VII to Mathilda of Canossa (pp. 100a-101b), and prayers organized according to the order of the liturgical year (pp. 102a-117b), except for the first prayer, dedicated to Saint Brendan (p. 101b). The collection further has a remarkable calendar that advises a diet where each month of the year is associated with the eating of a fish (p. 98a). According to the title on p. 120a, the last text contains St. Augustine’s Quaestiones (pp. 120a-141b). (rou)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 323
Paper · 268 pp. · 29 × 20.5 cm · 14th and 15th century
Bernhard de Parentinis, Tractatus de officio missae; Anonymous commentary on Isaiah

Two parts make up this manuscript. The first part, somewhat more recent, comes from the early fifteenth century and contains Bernhard de Parentinis’s Tractatus de officio missae (pp. 3178), including the capitulatio (pp. 39), dedication (pp. 910), prologue (pp. 1011) and collatio (pp. 1112). The actual text begins on p. 12. Pages 179190 are blank. The second, older part, comes from the fourteenth century and contains on pp. 191254 an anonymous commentary on Isaiah (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 8038; the text breaks off in the middle of the commentary on chapter 21) and, on p. 256, the beginning of Peter of Limoges’s Tractatus moralis de oculo, Inc. Si diligenter voluerimus in lege domini meditari. This text also breaks off in mid-sentence. The manuscript is bound in a parchment limp-binding that has cloth glued on the inside. The cloth has detached from the inside front cover, such that the text on the parchment can be read, a German-language charter (fourteenth century). Strips, probably from the same charter, serve as quire guards in the middle of gatherings. On p. 268, in the lower margin, appears a purchase note from 1422. According to the ownership mark on p. 3, the manuscript has been in the Abbey of St. Gall since the fifteenth century. Stamps from the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564) can be found on p. 3 and 178. (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 329
Paper · 552 pp. · 28 × 20-21 cm · 1398 and 1455/1458
Sermons and other texts

The manuscript was produced in the late fourteenth century and shortly after the middle of the fifteenth century. The first half (pp. 17347) was largely copied by Johannes Schorand (except pp. 1747) and on p. 123, 303 and 347 is dated 1398. Pages 348412 are written by several hands from the fifteenth century. The last part (pp. 413538) comes from the hand of the Dominican friar Cuonradus Bainli and contains several datings: 1455 (p. 470, 475 and 488) and 1458 (p. 538). The manuscript contains predominantly sermons, but also other, chiefly theological, texts. On pp. 17124 are the Sermones super Pater noster of Godefridus Heriliacensis (from Erlach on Lake Biel), followed by sermons De tempore on pp. 124303. The explicit on p. 303 (Explicit Jacobus de Foragine) is deceptive; only a few sermons are by Jacobus de Voragine. In fact, the first 58 sermons are identical with the sermon collection of an anonymous Franciscan contained in Oxford, Merton College, MS 236 (15 c.), and referred to by its incipit, "Mendicus". Subsequently, from the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Cod. Sang. 329 has a mixture of material from the “Mendicus”-sermon collection and additional sermons from Jacobus de Voragine’s Sermones de tempore. After both sermon collections follow a few shorter texts: pp. 304347 of the Tractatus de symbolo fidei by Aldobrandinus de Toscanella, pp. 348353 an Easter sermon from Albertus Patavinus’s Expositio evangeliorum dominicalium (Inc. Maria Magdalene et Maria Jacobi et Salome emerunt aromata … Licet magna leticia sit rem desideratam invenire), pp. 355-357 canonical dispositions, pp. 358-360 the chapter De sancto Petro apostolo from Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda aurea, and pp. 363-413 a Tractatus de amore dei, anime. The pages copied by Cuonradus Bainli begin with the Commentarius in decem praecepta by Henry of Friemar (pp. 413475, with a detailed index pp. 470475), followed by a Sermo de sacramento corporis Christi (pp. 479488) and pp. 488538 a text with the title Biblia virginis Marie, with a detailed index on pp. 488491. The codex has various contemporary foliations. Johannes Lener owned the manuscript; after he died, it passed to Johannes Engler (cf. the comments in the hand of Johannes Schorand, p. 124 and 347, corrected and expanded by a fifteenth-century hand). Since the mid-sixteenth century at the latest, the manuscript was in the library of the Abbey of St. Gall, (p. 353, the library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer, from 1553–1564). (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 758
Parchment · 102 pp. · 21.5 × 14.5 cm · 14th and 15th century
Miscellany with medical texts, Lumen animae and exempla

This miscellany begins with a few short medical texts: pp. 56 Johannicius (Hunain ibn Ishāq), Isagoge ad Techne Galieni (a reworking of Galen’s Ars Parva, in the Latin translation of Constantinus Africanus), § 1–9; pp. 67 and 8 have a few verses from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, a didactic poem in hexameter on medicine; pp. 78 contains a short text on the proportions of combined medicatons, inc. Gradus est sedecupla proporcio; pp. 910 a text on bloodletting, with the title in red De flebotomia, inc. In flebotomia quedam generales condiciones sunt; pp. 1011 a Latin-German glossary of plant names, with the rubric title Nomina herbarum, inc. Plantago Wegerich; pp. 1112 a text on uroscopy, the beginning of which a later hand in the margin indicates with in the margin with the title De urinis, inc. Si urina alba fuerit. Pages 1214 are written in a later hand and contain, contrary to Scherrer, not further medical material, but rather an exemplum or exempla from the Vitaspatrum (In vitas patrum legitur quod quidam interrogavit senem quare cogitaciones prave inpedirent oraciones [?]). After the medical part comes on pp. 1589 a Latin version of the Lumen animae, a collection of natural history exempla for preaching. On the margins of the page appear small diagrams concerning the contents of the chapter as well as additions to the authorities named in the text. The Lumen animae is the only text in the manuscript to begin with a larger red initial and ends on p. 89 with the rubric colophon Finito libro sit laus et gloriae Christo. The next two pages (pp. 9091) contain, among other things, calendar verses and a text on the planets. Pages 9297 have a Latin version of the “Letter from Heaven” or the “Sunday Letter”, a letter supposedly that fell from heaven concerning the celebration of Sunday, inc. Incipit epistola dei de celo vere missa petro apostolo ab omnibus diebus dominicis qualiter sit colendus dies dominicus. A prayer follows on pp. 9798, inc. O dilecte Iesu Christus, felix est qui te amat. The final pages (pp. 98101) contain further exempla written in the same later hand as pp. 1214, inc. Legitur quod quedam mulier […] venisset ad beatum Hillarionem pro sterilitate tollenda. The manuscript is bound in a grey cardboard binding from the eighteenth century; the earlier parchment binding with a spine label bearing the shelfmark 758 survives, but it has been cut apart and stapled to the first and last quires, respectively (p. 3 and between p. 24-25; p. 102 and between p. 88-89). (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 763
Parchment · 422 pp. · 14 x 10 cm · 14th century
Excerpts from theological and philosophical works

This manuscript is predominantly written in one hand, but with different layouts (lines per page). It chiefly contains excerpts that an anonymous Cistercian gathered together from theological and philosophical works, as stated by the rubric on p. 7 (Incipit libellus exceptionum collectarum de diversis operibus cuiusdam fratris ordinis Cysterciensis). The text begins on page 7 with Omnes naturaliter scire protestante philosopho. The rubrics in the margin and in the text indicate themes such as intercession (De suffragiis ecclesie, p. 19), christology (De nativitate domini, p. 25; De plenitudine gratie Christi, p. 27; De voluntate Christi, p. 31; De passione Christi, p. 33), purgatory (De acerbitate purgatorii, p. 88), memory and reason (De memoria, p. 124; De dignitatibus rationalis creature, p. 135), and virginity (De virginitate, p. 372). The chapters come at least in part from Ps.-Albertus Magnus, Compendium theologicae veritatis. The first pages (pp. 16) contain a text on free will, clearly connected to Peter Lombard’s Sententiae, Book 2, inc. Liberum arbitrium est facultas rationis et voluntatis, qua bonum eligitur gratia assistente vel malum eadem desistente. The library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer, from 1553–1564, appears on p. 422. The binding is made of a dark leather cover, over which a lighter leather sleeve with overhanging edges has been placed to protect the bookblock. (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 766
Parchment · 346 pp. · 19.5 × 14 cm · 14th c.
Ps.-Albertus Magnus, Compendium theologicae veritatis; Johannes de Friburgo, Confessionale

This manuscript, for the most part carefully written by a single hand, contains on pp. 3-282 the Compendium theologicae veritatis in seven books, which in early prints was ascribed to Albertus Magnus, but more recent research has identified this work as inauthentic. At the beginning of each book is a list of chapters (pp. 3, 3738, 9091, 126127, 159160, 215, 254). On pp. 283-344 follows the Confessionale by Johannes de Friburgo OP (ca. 1250–1314) (Bloomfield, Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, Nr. 5755). On the front inside board can be seen the offset of a manuscript page, which probably was written in half-uncial, and possibly comes from a fragment of the Vulgate (Cod. Sang. 1395, pp. 7327). The inside back cover also shows traces of an offset. (sno)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 842
Paper · 498 pp. · 20.5 × 14.5 cm · 14th and 15th century
Theological Miscellany

A fifteenth-century wooden-board binding contains this manuscript composed of multiple parts. The original start of the miscellany, the part of the manuscript consisting of pp. 1–140, was probably removed in the ninenteenth century. Six codicological units remain, and, with the exception of Part IV, they all were copied in the fifteenth century. Part I (pp. 141348) has, on pp. 141198, Johannes de Fonte’s florilegium Auctoritates Aristotelis (Lohr, p. 260) and, on pp. 199346, Latin sermons, with the insertion of excerpts from the book of Proverbs (pp. 257263). Part II (pp. 349396) contains Latin texts on the Mass, confession, and penance, written in two columns on pp. 349a396, including Ambrosius Autpertus’ treatise De conflictu vitiorum on pp. 363a-383b (Bloomfield, Nr. 0455). Further Latin sermons appear in Part III (pp. 397440b). Part IV (pp. 441574) consists of an incomplete abbreviation in two columns of Guillelmus Peraldus’ Summa virtutum (Bloomfield, Nr. 5775; Verweij, p. 111–110), which was copied in the fourteenth century. Part V (pp. 575618) transmits Thomas Aquinas’ treatise Collationes de decem preceptis (Bloomfield, Nr. 6071), which is decorated with a rather large pen drawing of a bishop on p. 600b. Part VI (pp. 619638), a single gathering, is written in two columns and contains on pp. 619a630b a Latin interpretation of the Pater noster by Johannes Münzinger (Adam, p. 160), on pp. 631a634a Thomas Aquinas’ interpretation of the Ave Maria (Expositio angelice salutationis) (cf. Rossi), on pp. 634b637a an interpretation of the responsory Missus est Gabriel, and finally on pp. 637a638b a short text in another hand. Based on the stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 440b), the manuscript has been in the Abbey Library since 1553–1564 at the latest. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 848
Parchment · 206 pp. · 20.5 × 13.5 cm · second half of the 13th or first half of the 14th century
Tabulae Toletanae cum tractatu (canonibus)

The first part of the manuscript transmits on pp. 344 the Canones in motibus caelestium corporum, instructions for use and an explanation of the tables that follow, along with an addition in the same script and gathering on pp. 4446. In the second part follows on pp. 47203 the Tabulae Toletanae. These are tables to compare various computations of time, on the calculation of planetary movements and eclipses, on spherical astronomy and with repertories of stars and places. The small script, between a Gothic minuscule and a simplified textualis, dates rather from the second half of the thirteenth century or the first half of the fourteenth century (contrary to Scherrer), and the tendency of the round terminal s to finish below the line suggests Italian origin. On p. 204 there is a Zodiac, the Marian hymn Gaude virgo gratiosa (AH 9, p. 54) and a further, roughly contemporary text. According to the entry N. 102 on p. 3, the manuscript came to the Abbey Library in 1768 as part of the legacy of Ägidius Tschudi (1505–1572). The cardboard binding with leather-reinforced spine and corners, along with the paper bifolia that serve as pastedown and flyleaves (pp. 1/2  and p. 205/206), come from the decades around 1800. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 875
Parchment · 88 pp. · 22 × 16 cm · second half of the 13th century or first half of the 14th century
Galfredus de Vino Salvo: Poetria nova

This parchment manuscript transmits on pp. 387 Geoffrey of Vinsauf’s Poetry nova, a guide, written in over 2,000 hexameters, to composing poems. The hexameters are arranged in 25 verse-lines in the center of the page, and accompanied by contemporarily-produced commnetaries and glosses. The script, a simplified textualis, dates from the second half of the thirteenth or the first half of the fourteenth century (contrary to Scherrrer). The stamp of Abbot Diethlm Blarer (1553–1564) appears on p. 9 and p. 88; p. 1 bears the former shelfmark S. n. 312, as well as a note on content by Pius Kolb; p. 2 has a note by Franz Josef Mone from 1819. The half-leather volume reveals a romanesque board-binding. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 880
Parchment · 224 pp. · 23.5 × 17.5 cm · Paris (?) · first half of the 14th century
Priscianus Caesariensis: Institutiones grammaticae, libri 17–18

This parchment manuscript contains on pp. 1188 books 17 and 18 of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae (ed. Keil, v. 3, pp. 107–278, l. 12). Then follows the third book of Donatus’ Ars maior on pp. 189204 (ed. Keil, v. 4, pp. 392–402), and the Pseudo-Priscian treatise De accentibus on pp. 205–223 (ed. Keil, v. 3, pp. 518–528). The entire grammatical manuscript is written in the same fourteenth-century textualis. The beginning each of the four texts, on p. 1, 115, 189, and 205, is marked by a 10-18-line painted initial with gold, blue, white, red, dark-red or green; the first initial is historiated, depicted a teaching scene, and the third initial is heavily damaged. For the rest, there are simple red and blue pen-flourished initials throughout. The Institutiones grammaticae are accompanied by numerous glosses and commentaries written in ink by several fourteenth-century hands. On p. 189 the glosses are less numerous and have been made with dry point. On p. 118 and 224 can be found the stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564), on p. 1 appears the former shelfmark D.n. 241 along with a note on content by Pius Kolb. Before p. 1, a fragment in paper contains the remains of two long entries. The wooden-board binding has a half-leather cover. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 885
Parchment · 149 pp. · 23.5 × 14 cm · 13th century
Grammatical Treatise

The manuscript transmits a treatise on Latin grammar, apparently missing its beginning. According to Bursill-Hall (p. 229), this is an anonymous commentary on Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae. The two-column text is divided only by occasional capitals in the same ink as the text. The small minuscule script dates to the thirteenth century (contrary to Scherrer). The parchment leaves often have irregular margins and their size varies from gathering to gathering. On p. 145 can be found the stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564). On p. 3 Pius Kolk wrote the former shelfmark D. n. 268 and a note on the content. The cardboard binding with leather-reinforced spine and corners, along with the paper pastedowns and flyleaves (pp. 1/2, 148/149) come from the decades around 1800. (len)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 887
Paper · 108 pp. · 20 x 14.5 cm · 14th c.
Conradus de Mure: Novus Graecismus

This fourteenth-century paper manuscript has the oldest work written by Conrad of Mure (ca. 1210–1281), the magister of the chapter school and canon of the Zürich Grossmünster. The Novus Graecismus is a school encyclopedia (with a focus on grammar and vocabulary) in verse, of which eleven fourteenth- and fifteenth-century copies survive (ed. A. Cizek, München, 2009). The text itself is a reworking of Eberhard of Béthune’s Graecismus, produced at the beginning of the thirteenth century. The Abbey Library of St. Gall’s copy, written in a dense cursive on a single column, is incomplete. It includes the preface (inc.: Notitiam gramatice saltem… p. 3), book I (pp. 4100) and 80 verses of book II (pp. 100106), that is, two of the work’s ten books. Parchment quire guards with fragments of text reinforce the codex (p. 18, 46, 70, 94). The manuscript has a modern cardboard binding with a printed fragment. (rou)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 891
Parchment · 152 pp. · 25 x 18.5 cm · 9 August 1386
Eberhard de Béthune: Graecismus

The colophon of this manuscript names the author and title of the work, Eberhard of Béthune’s Graecismus, as well as the name of the scribe Johannis Czepilwicz and the date that the copy was completed, 9 August 1386 (p. 150). The Graecismus is a long grammatical poem (more than 4,000 verses) written ca. 1212, and its main sources are the grammarians of antiquity such as Donatus and Priscian. The Graecismus circulated widely. The author of this copy on parchment, Johannis Czepilwicz, seems to be the same as a canon of the Augustine house of S. Maria virginis in Arena in Breslau/Wrocław. Except for a large, decorated first initial, lightly damaged (p. 3), the decoration is limited to rubricated letters and a few initials whose form anticipates fifteenth-century letters with cadels. Given the presence of the stamp of the abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 25), the manuscript was at the Abbey Library since 1553-1564 at the latest. The manuscript has a limp parchment binding with a spine reinforced in leather. (rou)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 901
Parchment · II+ 120 + II pp. · 28 x 19.5 cm · 1st third of the 14th century
Alexander de Villa Dei: Doctrinale

The parchment manuscript contains Alexander of Villedieu’s Doctrinale with the commentary of Master Bertholdus Turicensis. The colophon (p. 123) states the name of this commentator from Zurich, and of the copyist, a certain “Hermannus”, but nothing more is known about them. The volume, laid out in two columns, is carefully articulated: every hexameter of the Doctrinale is generally divided into paragraphs of one or more verses and is copied in a larger size than the commentaries that follow. This commentary is more or less as long as the verses and is moreover full of abbreviations, unlike the text being commented. Elegant pen-flourished initials, typical of upper-Rhine illuminations of the beginning of the fourteenth century, appear throughout this copy. The seal of abbot Diethelm Blarer (p. 59) confirms that the book was at the Abbey Library since 1553–1564 at the latest. (rou)

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