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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. 154
Parchment · 396 pp. · 27.5 x 18.2 cm · partially in St. Gall · 9th century
Augustine, De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum; Selections from the Quaestiones evangeliorum

A copy of the explication by Augustine of the Sermon on the Mount (De sermone domini in monte secundum Matthaeum) together with selections from his Quaestiones evangeliorum, made in the 9th century. Unlike the second part of the manuscript, the copy of the explication of the Sermon on the Mount in the first part was not made at the Abbey of St. Gall. The composite manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 155
Parchment · 402 pp. · 27 x 20 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 9th/10th centuries
Augustinus, In Iohannis evangelium tractatus

A copy of lessons or disquisitions 55 through 124 by Augustine on the Gospel of John, made at the Abbey of St. Gall in about 900. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 156
Parchment · 166 pp. · 30 x 23 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · after 850
Composite manuscript containing works by the Church Father Augustine, particularly sermons

This codex produced at the Abbey of St. Gall, probably in the time of Abbot Grimald (841-872) or Hartmut (872-883) sometime after 850, contains numerous sermons and selections from sermons by Augustine; in addition it contains excerpts from other works written by Augustine, such as the Enarrationes in psalmos, the Tractatus in Iohannis evangelium and the Confessiones. The manuscript retains its original Carolingian binding. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 157
Parchment · 304 pp. · 27.8 x 22 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 840/870
Augustinus, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus; Sermo 101; Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum

Copies of three works by Augustine, De diversis quaestionibus octoginta tribus (incomplete), Sermo 101 and – in an excellent version – Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum. On page 1 there is a pen test: Omnis homo primum bonum vinum poni. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 158
Parchment · 210 pp. · ca. 31.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus de baptismo contra Donatistas, libri VII.

This copy of the work "De baptismo" (On Baptism) by the Church father Augustine (d. 430) is significant in terms of textual history; it was produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 159
Parchment · 384 pp. · 31.5 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Hieronymus, epistolae; Origenes, sermones; Cassiodorus, de anima

Copies of 40 letters written by the church father Jerome, set down by a number of different scribes in the Cloister of St. Gall around the middle of the 9th century in Carolingian minuscule script. Annotated in the 11th century with rich interlinear and marginal commentaries by the monk Ekkehart IV († about 1060). This codex also contains the homilies of Origen on Jerome's Latin translation of the Song of Songs as well as the work De anima by Cassiodorus. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 160
Parchment · 592 pp. · 30.1-30.2 x 22.2-22.3 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus in Heptateuchum, libri VII.

This copy of the commentaries by the Church father Augustine on the first seven books of the Old Testament (the Heptateuch: "Quaestiones in Heptateuchum libri VII") is among the most significant copies in terms of textual history; it was produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 161
Parchment · 354 pp. · 32.1 x 25 cm · St. Gall · 845/870
Augustine, Commentary on Genesis

A copy of Augustine's commentary on Genesis De Genesi ad litteram libri XII, written during the second third of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. Contains numerous marginal and interlinear glosses. (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 162
Parchment · 374 pp. · 31.7 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · around 850
First volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine

The first of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume contains readings of Psalms 1 through 35, written by many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. Includes a large number of glosses, including some in Old High German by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV from the period after 1000. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 163
Parchment · 500 pp. · 32.4 x 24.9 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Third volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine

This third of a group of originally six volumes containing a copy of St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 51-76, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century under Abbot Grimald (841-872). (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 164
Parchment · 404 pp. · 32.5 x 24 cm · St. Gall · around 850
The fourth volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine

The fourth of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 77 through 100, written by many different hands at the Abbey of St. Gall under Abbot Grimald (841-872). Includes assorted later glosses from the first half of the 11th century by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 165
Parchment · 302 pp. · 31.7 x 24.4 cm · St. Gall · around 850
The second volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine

The second of a group of originally six volumes containing St. Augustine's commentary on the Psalms. This volume comprises readings of Psalms 36 through 50, written in many different hands under Abbot Grimald (841-872) at the Abbey of St. Gall. During the first half of the 20th century a strip containing textual elements of the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sang. 730) was recovered from Codex 165. On page 278 is a scribal annotation (Uuaningus scripsit) by a monk named Waningus. (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 166
Parchment · 434 pp. · 32 x 24.5 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Fifth volume of a six-volume commentary on the Psalms by St. Augustine

The fifth of a group of originally six volumes containing Augustine's commentary on the Psalms (the sixth volume was missing as early as 1461). Includes some explanatory notes by St. St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV, including two in Old High German. (sno)

Online Since: 06/22/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 167
Parchment · 399 pp. · 35.3 x 27.1 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Walahfridus Strabo, Commentarius in psalmos I-LXXVI

A copy of Reichenau man of letters and Abbot Walahfrid Strabo's commentary on Psalms 1-76. On the first pages of this copy are letters from Jerome to Paul (Ep. 30; De alphabeto Hebraeorum) and to Marcella (Ep. 38; De diapsalmate), written with great care at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century. The second part of this commentary on the Psalms by Walahfrid Stabo (on Psalms 77-150) is found in Cod. Sang. 313. (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 168
Parchment · 408 pp. · 30.5 x 20.5-21 cm · 9th century
Augustini sermones . Ratperti cantilena de S. Gallo Ekkehardo interprete . Ekkehart, Ad picturas in claustro

The main content of this codex is a copy of sermons on the Gospel of John by the church father Augustine, produced sometime after 800. In the front is a Latin version with neumes of the now lost Old High German "Galluslied" (the translation into Latin was done by the monk Ekkehart IV in the first half of the 11th century), originally composed by the monk Ratpert before the year 900. In the back are verses by Ekkehart IV about the paintings in the Romanesque cloister walk at St. Gall. Includes textual glosses by Ekkehart IV. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 169
Parchment · 380 pp. · 30.1 x 21 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Augustini sermones (XXII-LIV) in evang. Johannis

A copy of Augustine's sermons 22 through 54 on the Gospel of John (In Iohannis Evangelium tractatus), written during the third quarter of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 170
Parchment · 340 pp. · 30 x 22.5 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 9th century
Augustinus, De consensu evangelistarum

This copy of the work De consensu evangelistarum libri quattuor by the Church Father Augustine is important to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 10/04/2011

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 171
Parchment · 402 pp. · 33.5 x 22 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 10th century
Assorted works by Augustine, including De baptismo contra Donatistas

Copies of Augustine’s sermons 46 and 47 as well as his De baptismo contra Donatistas (important to textual history), De peccatorum meritis et de baptismo parvulorum ad Marcellinam, De unico baptismo contra Petilianum ad Constantium (important to textual history) and De spiritu et littera. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 172
Parchment · 274 pp. · 33.4 x 27.5 cm · St. Gallen (?) · second half of the 9th century
Augustinus, Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II

A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written during the second half of the 9th century, probably at the Abbey of St. Gall. In the year 2009, a strip containing a portion of text from the Vetus-Latina version of the Gospels from the early 5th century was detached from page 258 of this codex; it is now included with other fragments from the same original manuscript in Cod. Sang. 1394 (pp. 51-88). (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 173
Parchment · 399 pp. · 37.7 x 27.1 cm · St. Gall · around 850
Augustinus, Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II

A copy of Augustine's work Contra Faustum Manichaeum libri II, written at the Abbey of St. Gall, probably under Abbot Grimald (841-872). (smu)

Online Since: 11/04/2010

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