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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek

The Abbey Library of St. Gall is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world; it is the most important part of St. Gall’s Abbey district UNESCO world heritage site. The library’s valuable holdings illustrate the development of European culture and document the cultural achievements of the Monastery of St. Gall from the 7th century until the dissolution of the Abbey in the year 1805. The core of the library is its manuscript collection with its preeminent corpus of Carolingian-Ottonian manuscripts (8th to 11th century), a significant collection of incunabula and an accumulated store of printed works from the 16th century to the present day. The Abbey Library of St. Gall was a co-founder of the project e-codices. With its famous Baroque hall, where temporary exhibitions are hosted, the Abbey Library of St. Gall is one of the most visited museums in Switzerland.

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 237
Parchment · 328 pp. · 29.5 x 20.5-21.5 cm · after 800
Isidore's Etymology in 20 books

A copy of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville from the time after 800. Most probably not written in the monastery of St. Gall. In the front, on a page with pen trials, a faded and much studied early medieval map of the world. The encyclopedia written by Isidore of Seville in the early 7th century is one of the most read and most quoted books of the Middle Ages. (smu)

Online Since: 12/12/2006

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 238
Parchment · 494 pp. · 29.5 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · 760-780
Collected works: Etymological dictionary / excerpts from Genesis / Dicta Winitharii / Sent. I, 8 and 10 / De natura rerum / Excerpts from Etymolog. IX, 2 / De eccles. dogmatibus / Excerpts from Kings and prophets

Manuscript collection by Winithar with illustrations (the oldest from St. Gall) of Isidore of Seville's De natura rerum. (smu)

Online Since: 09/14/2005

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 239
Parchment · 258 pp. · 29.8-30 x 20.2-20.4 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus in Pentateuchum. Lib. Judicum, Ruth, Regum I-IV.

A copy of the Commentaries of Isidore of Seville on various books of the Old Testament (Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum), produced during the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 240
Parchment · 308 pp. · 30.7-31 x 20.5-20.8 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus. Proœmia in V. et N. T., de vita et obitu sanctorum.

A copy of a collection of texts by Isidore of Seville (d. 636), including De natura rerum, produced in the women's cloister of Chelles on the Marne east of Paris in, or shortly after 800. The copy of the work De natura rerum in this manuscript includes a very simple world map (Mappa mundi) as well as a so-called “Knopfkarte” (a chart composed of multiple connected circles). (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 241
Parchment · 180 pp. · 27.2-27.5 x 19.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Paterius, liber testimoniorum. Epistolæ S. Hieronymi et Damasi. Augustini Homiliæ in Ev. S. Iohannis.

A patristic manuscript of unknown provenance from the first half of the 9th century. It contains the Liber Testimoniorum by Paterius, letters exchanged between Jerome and Damasus, selections from the homilies of Augustine on the Gospel of John, the Athanasian Creed with exegesis, and an exegesis of the Our Father. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 242
Parchment · 272 pp. · 24.5-25 x 18.5-19 cm · St. Gall · 8th-11th centuries
Composite manuscript

School manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall. A collection of works: diverse (often glossed) early medieval educational texts from the 8th to the 11th century (Aldhelm of Malmesbury, Aenigmata, Sedulius, Carmen paschale) and – preserved only here – the Stephanus hymn by Notker Balbulus and a musical treatise in Old High German by Notker the German. (smu)

Online Since: 12/12/2006

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243
Parchment · 254 pp. · 28.5 x 21 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Collectio canonum hibernensis

Allemanian copy of the Collectio Canonum Hibernesis from the first half of the 9th century. The work includes Irish canonical law texts, which have been brought together in this collection of canon laws with others from African, Gallic, and Greek synodical and conciliar records as well as with papal decrees from the period around 700. At the end is a scribal dictum by Eadberct. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 244
Parchment · 518 pp. · 30.4 x 21.9 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
Ambrosius Autpertus, Expositio in Apocalypsin (Lib. I–V)

This is a careful copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books I to V of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the monastery of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 12/20/2012

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 245
Parchment · 518 pp. · 27.5 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 11th century
Ambrosius Autpertus, Expositio in Apocalypsin (Lib. VI–X)

This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of books VI to X of the Expositio in Apocalypsin by Ambrosius Autpertus († 784), presbyter and abbot, originally from southern Gaul, but active in the southern Italian monastery of San Vincenzo al Volturno. The copy, transcribed by a variety of hands from a lost 9th century Reichenau manuscript, was made at the monastery of St. Gall. It contains multiple glosses by the hand of the monk Ekkehard IV. (smu)

Online Since: 12/20/2012

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 246
Parchment · 228 pp. · 29 x 19.5 cm · St. Gall · 12th century
Rupertus Tuitiensis, Liber de divinis officiis

Commentary on the liturgy of the Mass and of the church year by Rupert of Deutz (Rupertus Tuitiensis, around 1070-1129). This copy is written by a single hand in a neat 12th century script; the binding is from the middle of the 15th century with a bookmark made of string attached to the headband. On p. 226 and on the cover, the text by Rupert of Deutz is falsely attributed to the Venerable Bede. (dor)

Online Since: 06/23/2014

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 247
Parchment · 302 pp. · 29.5-30 x 23.5-24 cm · St. Gall · around 860
Ecclesiastical History of the English-Speaking People

A copy of the most important source for the history of the English people, the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, produced in about 860 in the abbey of St. Gall, still it its original Carolingian binding. A short biographical sketch about Bede and a list of his works are appended. (smu)

Online Since: 12/23/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 248
Parchment · 226 pp. · 28.8-29.3 x 20.8-21.8 cm · Laon in northern France · middle of the 9th century (pp. 3–82) / 9th century (?) (pp. 83-98) / 9th or 11th century (pp. 99-148) / 9th century or 11th-12th centuries (pp. 149-212)
Bede, De natura rerum, De temporibus, and De temporum ratione Pseudo-Bede, Compotum sic Bedae presbiteri librorum quattuor Boethius, De arithmetica libri duo

Natural history (scientific) manuscript compilation, written by various scribes, mostly around the year 850, in the area of Laon in northern France. The codex contains, among other items, Boetheus's De arithmetica, a computational treatise incorrectly attributed to the English scholar the Venerable Bede († 735), and De temporum ratione as well as selections from De natura rerum and De temporibus, all true works of the Venerable Bede. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 249
Parchment · 92 pp. · 26.3 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda de orthographia; Caper de orthographia; Agroetius de orthographia; et alia orthographica.

A copy of several tracts on orthography, written in about 800 at the Abbey of St. Gall. This manuscript contains, among other items, a copy of the tract De orthographia by Alcuin of York, based on the work of the same name by the Venerable Bede, as well as orthographical tracts by the Gallic bishop Agroetius (5th century) and the Roman grammarian Flavius Caper (2nd century). (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 250
Parchment · 645 pp. · 24.7 x 18 cm · St. Gall · last quarter of the 9th century
Astronomical-computistic encyclopedia

Collection of Astronomical-computistical tables and charts with high-quality pen drawings of the constellations. (smu)

Online Since: 12/31/2005

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 251
Parchment · 186 pp. · 36.5 x 26 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede

Copies of assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede (De natura rerum; De temporum ratione; the closing portion of De temporibus), produced as early as the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. In addition, this codex contains, among other items, computistic and calendar texts and tables, and at the end, schematic diagrams of the organization of the scientific disciplines as well as quill tests. (smu)

Online Since: 12/23/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 252
Parchment · 206 pp. · 32.2-32.5 x 20.6-21.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in VII epistolas canonicas

This copy of the commentary of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the seven Canonical Letters is significant to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 253
Parchment · 333 pp. · 26.4-26.6 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in Tobiam, in Esram et Nehemiam

A copy of the commentaries of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Old Testament books of Tobias, Ezra and Nehmiah, produced in the first half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 254
Parchment · 256 pp. · 29 x 23 cm · St. Gall · around 860
Jerome, Commentary on the Old Testament book of Isaiah. Includes the most authentic version of the Old English "Death Song" by the Venerable Bede

A redaction by the Anglo-Saxon Joseph Scottus, written in about 860. Appended is the oldest known surviving copy of the letter of Cuthbert, student of the Venerable Bede, to his friend Cuthwin, relating the story of the death of Bede in the year 735. This account incorporates the Old English Death Song by Bede, Fore there neidfaerae ..., in the oldest known version in Bede's own Northumbrian dialect. The manuscript still retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 255
Parchment · 424 pp. · 24 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Bedæ: Hexaemeron libri II. Isidorus contra Iudæos libri II ad sororem Florentiam; Libellus S. Hieronymi de mansionibus filiorum Israel; Maccabæorum libri II.

A manuscript compilation of the shorter version of the Book of Genesis by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), together with the work Contra Iudaeos by Isidore of Seville, the letter De mansionibus filiorum Israhel (Epistula 78) by the church father Jerome, and a copy of the first and second Old Testament books of Maccabees, produced in the 9th century, probably in the Abbey of St. Gall. A noteworthy initial capital appears on page 232. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 256
Parchment · 342 pp. · 28.8 x 21.8-22 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Beda in Marcum evangelistam

A copy of the commentary on the Gospel of Mark by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), produced in the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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