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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 60
Parchment · 70 pp. · 27 x 18.5 cm · 8th century
Evangelium S. Johannis
An Irish copy of John's Gospel, bound in ivory diptychs for presentation to Charles the Great as a gift for his coronation. (smu)
Parchment · 344 pp. · 25.5 x 17–18 cm · St. Gall (?) · 12th/13th century
Bible (Jn, Mk) with Glossa ordinaria
This volume consists of three codices that were bound together. The first two (pp. 1–84 and 85–228) contain the Gospel of John, the third (pp. 229–342) the Gospel of Mark, each with the so-called Prologus monarchianus (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 624: pp. 1–2 and 86–88; Stegmüller, RB 607: pp. 229–232) and Glossa ordinaria. In the first codex, the Gospel text abruptly ends in the middle of a sentence on p. 84 in Jn 21,2; only Jn 1,1–8,24 are glossed. In the second codex, Jn 1,1–20,25 is glossed. While the first and third codices are from the 12th century, the second is somewhat later (12th/13th century). The last pages of the third codex also are later (13th century: glosses from p. 315, main text from p. 319). There is a zoomorphic initial (dragon) on p. 3 and an initial in minium on p. 229. Fragments of 10th century manuscripts were used to line the back. On the inside of the front cover, there is an imprint of a manuscript fragment, and on the back pastedown there is a late medieval note of ownership for St. Gall Abbey. (sno)
Parchment · 222 pp. · 22.5 x 15.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · around 1200
Bible (Jn) with Glossa ordinaria
This codex contains the Gospel of John with the Monarchian prologue (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 624; pp. 3-7), an anonymous prologue (Stegmüller, RB 628; pp. 3-7, margin), and the Glossa ordinaria. The manuscript, bound in a Romanesque binding, was probably written towards the end of the 12th century, possibly also at the beginning of the 13th century. It is unclear whether it was written in St. Gall, but the ownership note Liber sancti Galli from the 13th century (p. 2) indicates that it was already in the monastery of St. Gall at that time. (sno)
A copy of the letters of Paul the Apostle, the Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic Letters (3 letters by John, 2 by Peter, one by James and one by Jude) and the Apocalypse, written around the end of the end of the 9th or the beginning of the 10th century, likely at the Abbey of St. Gall. On the insides of the covers, imprints of fragmental portions of the Vergilius Sangallensis (Cod. Sang. 1394) and the Vulgate version of the Gospels (Cod. Sang. 1395) are visible. (smu)
Parchment · 418 pp. · 21.4 x 16.7 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible (Epistles of Paul); Alcuin; Apuleius
A copy of the Pauline Epistles with a miniature of Paul the Apostle, preaching in front of a great number of Jews and pagans, copies of Alcuin's works "De dialectica" and "De rhetorica" and of the work "Peri hermeneias" of Apuleius of Madaura (?), written in the monastery of St. Gall in the second half of the 9th century, with amendments from the 11th century. (smu)
Parchment · 216 pp. · 15.2-15.3 x 22-22.1 cm; 15.3 x 22.2 cm · St. Gall · 10th century and 12th century
Somnium Scipionis. Commentum Macrobii in somnium Scipionis. Epistolæ VII catholicæ.
A composite manuscript with two unrelated parts: 1) an incomplete copy of the Somnium Scipionis section of the work De re publica by Marcus Tullius Cicero, written in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century, followed by a 10th century St. Gall copy of the commentary originally written by the Roman author Macrobius of late antiquity in about 430/440 and widely disseminated during the middle ages. A fragment of this manuscript may also be found in Cod. Voss.lat.qu. 33 (fol. 58) in the library of the Rijksuniversiteit in Leiden; 2) a St. Gall copy of the seven Catholic Letters (3 written by John, 2 by Peter, one by James, one by Jude) with a learned scholarly commentary from the 12th century. (smu)
Parchment · 64 pp. · 23.5–24 x 15–15.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 12th century
Epistolae catholicae with Glossa ordinaria
Copy of the Catholic epistles with the Glossa ordinaria: Jerome’s prologue to the Epistle of James, Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 809 (p. 4), Epistle of James (pp. 5-19), First Epistle of Peter (pp. 19-34), Second Epistle of Peter (pp. 34-43), First Epistle of John (pp. 43-57), Second Epistle of John (pp. 57-59), Third Epistle of John (pp. 59-61), Epistle of Jude (pp. 61-64). Pages 1 and 2 contain more introductory texts, by various hands, on the Epistle of James, among them the prologue by Jerome (Stegmüller, RB 808), excerpts from Jerome, ep. 53 (Stegmüller, RB 807), an anonymous prologue to the Epistle of James (Stegmüller, RB 806) and various other texts related, in the broadest sense, to the Glossa ordinaria (mentioned by Stegmüller, RB 11846, as having survived only in this manuscript). P. 2 also contains the first 3 stanzas of the sequence for St. John the Evangelist Verbum dei deo natum. (sno)
Parchment · IV + 216 + II pp. · 21-23 x 14-15 cm · 12th century
Epistolae Pauli with Glossa ordinaria
Copy of the Pauline Epistles with the Glossa ordinaria: Epistle to the Romans (pp. 3–44), First Epistle to the Corinthians (pp. 44–78), Second Epistle to the Corinthians (pp. 78–106), Epistle to the Galatians (pp. 106–121), Epistle to the Ephesians (pp. 121–136), Epistle to the Philippians (pp. 136–146), Epistle to the Colossians (pp. 146–156), First Epistle to the Thessalonians (pp. 156–164), Second Epistle to Timothy (pp. 165–172), Epistle to Titus (pp. 172–177), Epistle to Philemon (pp. 177–179), Epistle to the Hebrews (pp. 179–214). The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians and the First Epistle to Timothy are missing (loss of a quire).The beginning of the Epistle to the Romans (Rm 1, 1–20) appears on pp. 1-2 already, also with the Glossa ordinaria. The decoration consists of initials with scroll ornamentationin the same ink as the text on pp. 3, 44, 106, 146, 172, 177 and 179. On the last leaf (p. 215-216), presumably formerly a pastedown, there is the sequence De sancto Nicolao by Adam of Saint Victor with diastematic neume notation on staff lines incised with a stylus. This notation, not customary in St. Gall, argues against the manuscript’s having been produced at the St. Gall monastery. (sno)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Job, Tobit, Judith, Esther and the prologue of the book Ezra) as well as the Pauline Epistles: a volume of the so-called "Kleine Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 448 pp. · 18–19 x 25.5–26.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 12th and 12th/13th century
Bible (Pauline epistles with Glossa ordinaria); Augustine and others, Sermones; Adso of Montier-en-Der, De antichristo; Peter Abelard, Sententiae
Two codices in one volume. The first codex (pp. 1-288; early 12th century) contains the Pauline epistles with the Glossa ordinaria and four prologues: anonymous prologue, Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, No. 11086 (p. 1), prologue by Pelagius (?), Stegmüller, RB 670 (pp. 1–2), prologue by Pelagius, Stegmüller, RB 674 (pp. 2–3), prologue by Marcion, Stegmüller, RB 677 (p. 3). P. 3 also contains excerpts from the Decretum Gratiani (D. 28 c. 17), the Concilium BracarenseII, can. 2, and one more canonical text. This is followed by the Pauline epistles in the customary order (pp. 5-287), including the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans (pp. 216-218). The second codex (pp. 288-448; 12th century; from p. 417 on 12th/13th century) primarily contains excerpts from sermons and other works by Jerome (pp. 289–374 and 386–387), interposed with more sermons (pp. 382–386, 387–403 and 408–415) and other works, in part only as excerpts: Grimlaicus, Regula solitariorum, cap. 3–5 and 31–34 (p. 374–381); anon., De consanguinitate BMV (pp. 403–407); Gregory of Tours, Miracula 1, 31–32 (on St. Thomas; pp. 407–408); Amalarius of Metz, Ordinis missae expositio I, prologue and cap. 17 (pp. 415–416); excerpt from Gregory the Great, Regula pastoralis, cap. 12 (p. 416); Peter Abelard, Sententiae 1–60 and 102–247 (pp. 417–448). The front and back covers show imprints of fragments from a 10th century missal. (sno)
Parchment · 284 pp. · 29 x 19.5 cm · St. Gallen (?) · end of the 12th century
Bible (Epistolae Pauli) with Glossa ordinaria
The codex contains the Pauline Epistles with three prologues to the Letter to the Romans (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, Nr. 650, 674, and 677; p. 1), the Glossa ordinaria, and further glosses. The Letter to the Hebrews ends at Hebr. 4:16. The manuscript, bound in a Romanesque binding, was probably written towards the end of the twelfth century. It is not clear whether it was produced in St. Gall. (sno)
Copies of the Epistles of Paul, the Acts of the Apostles, the Catholic Letters (3 by John, 2 by Peter, one by James, one by Jude) and the Apocalypse, written and decorated with several initials sometime in the middle of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 262 pp. · 35-35.5 x 25-25.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
A commentary by Pseudo-Jerome on the Epistles of Paul
A commentary by Pseudo-Jerome on the Epistles of Paul. This manuscript, produced by the Cloister of St. Gall in the 9th century, is significant in terms of textual history study. Pages 231 through 260 contain the oldest commentary on the Letter to the Hebrews, composed by Irish theologians from the circle of Pelagius during the 7th century. (smu)
Parchment · 300 pp. · 38-38.5 x 26 cm · 12th century
Bible (Apc, Epistolae catholicae, Io), with Glossa ordinaria
Copy
of New Testament books with prologues and Glossa
ordinaria: Gilbertus
Porretanus, prologue to the Apocalypse, Stegmüller RB 839 (pp. 2–4),
Apocalypse (pp. 4–81), prologue to the catholic epistles,
Stegmüller RB 809 and 11846 (p. 82), Epistle of James (pp. 83–99),
First Epistle of Peter (pp. 99–115), Second Epistle of Peter (pp.
115–126), First Epistle of John (pp. 126–141), Second Epistle of
John (pp. 141–143), Third Epistle of John (pp. 143–145), Epistle
of Jude (pp. 145–150), prologue to the Gospel of John, Stegmüller
RB 624 (pp. 151–153), Gospel of John (pp. 154–300). At the
beginning of the chapters (p. 2, 4, 83, 126, 141, 145, 151, 154),
there are initials stretching over several lines executed in minium
with blue, green and light yellow, in part with figurative elements
(p. 83 and 145: animal head and animal mask; p. 126: quadruped; p.
143: billy goat; p. 154: dragon). In the margin on p. 99, there is a
depiction of the Apostle Peter with the keys. (sno)
Parchment · 858 (822) pp. · 34.4 x 48.3 cm · St. Gall (?) · 12th century
Biblia latina utriusque Testamenti
Complete Bible in large-format, only the Psalms and the Book of Baruch are not included. The individual books are introduced by initials in red ink over several lines (e.g., p. 3). The inside of the back cover shows imprints of pages in uncial script, probably a 5th century version of a Vetus Latina. (sno)
Parchment · 482 pp. · 46.5 x 35 cm · St. Gall · around 850-860
Bible (Gen, Ex, Lev, Num, Deut, Josh, Judg, Ruth)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges and Ruth). The first volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 336 pp. · 42 x 31 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible (I-II Sam, III-IV Kings)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Samuel I and II and Kings III and IV).The second volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 452 pp. · 39.5 x 30 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible (I-II Chr, Jdt, Esth, I-II Ezra, I-II Macc)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Paralipomenon I and II, Judith, Esther, Ezra, Nehemiah and Maccabees I and II). (smu)
Parchment · 308 pp. · 41 x 26.5/26.7 cm · All Saints, Schaffhausen · around 1100
Pentateuch . Books of Josua and Judges . Epistles of Paul
A copy of the first five books of Moses (the Pentateuch), the books of Joshua and Judges from the Old Testament as well as the Epistles of Paul and the Acts of the Apostles from the New Testament, produced in about 1100 in the cloister of All Saints (Allerheiligen) in Schaffhausen, already recorded in the 12th century as held in St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 363 pp. · 42 x 31 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible (Prov, Eccl, Song, Wis, Sir, Job, Tob)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus - also called Sirach, Job, Tobit). A volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 551 pp. · 40.5 x 29.5 cm · St. Gall · third quarter of the 9th century
Bible (Isa, Jer, Ezek, XII min. proph., Dan)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing books of the Old Testament (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and the minor prophets.) A volume of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 418 pp. · 40.5 x 30.5 cm · St. Gall · around 850-860
Bible (Epistles, Acts, Apoc)
Bible manuscript from the time of Hartmut, Vice-abbot ca. 850-872 and Abbot 872-883, containing the Pauline Epistles, the Acts and Revelations. The last volume (6) of the so-called "Grosse Hartmut-Bibel". (smu)
Parchment · 234 pp. · 30.5-31 x 23.5-24 cm · Einsiedeln · around 950-970
The Pseudo-Clementines
The Pseudo-Clementines in a copy produced at the Cloister of Einsiedeln in the period around 950/970, with a title illustration showing the conflict between Peter the Apostle and Simon Magus. The 10-book "Pseudo-Klementinen" is written from the point of view of Peter's follower Clement and tells about Peter's travels, his conflict with Simon Magus, and the conversion of his pupil, Clement of Rome. (smu)
Parchment · 345 pp. · 36.5 x 25.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Homiliae Origenis in Genesim, Exodum et Leviticum.
A copy of the sermons of the early Christian theologian Origen (185-254) on the Old Testament books of Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus, produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 596 pp. · 29 x 22 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Origenes, Commentarii in epistulas ad Romanos
An excellently crafted copy of the ten-part commentary of the Greek theologian Origen (185-253/54) on the Epistle to the Romans (Commentarii in epistulas ad Romanos), produced in the Cloister of St. Gall during the second half of the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 217 pp. · 23.4-23.5 x 15.2-15.4 cm · St. Gall · end of the 9th century
Cypriani de dominica oratione etc. Dicta Gregorii Nazanzeni episcopi de Hieremia propheta. Cypriani de mortalitate.
This manuscript of collected works is important to textual history and contains various works by Bishop Cyprian of Carthage († 258), including De dominica oratione, De mortalitate and De opere et eleemosynis, together with a tract by an unknown Irish author, De duodecim abusivis saeculi written by an unknown author, and the invocation of Gregory of Nazianz to the residents of Nazianz in Latin translation (Ad cives Nazianzenos gravi timore perculsos et praefectum irascentem) copied near the end of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 170 pp. · 27.5 x 19-19.5 cm · second half of the 9th century (?)
Altercatio contra Arrium. Epistola adversus Luciferianum hereticum.
This manuscript contains a Latin language copy of the Altercatio contra Arrium by the church father Athanasius that is significant to textual history, together with one of the five oldest copies of the Epistola adversus Luciferianum hereticum by the church father Jerome, probably made by the St. St. Gall monk Rifine during the second half of the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 184 pp. · 24.4-24.5 x 17.9-18.1 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Libri VI Effrem diaconi de judicio etc., et alia.
Copies of various works by the church father Ephraem the Syrian in Latin, written in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century. Among them are the works De iudicio dei et resurrectione, De beatitudine animae, De poenitentia, De luctaminibus and De die iudicii et monita. The leaves of the last portion of the manuscript, which contains Sermon 60 of Caesarius of Arles, were previously folded. (smu)
Parchment · 112 pp. · 22.6-22.7 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Effrem diaconi opuscula
Copies of assorted shorter sermons in Latin by Ephrem the Syrian (d. 373), some of them incomplete, including De compunctione cordis, De iudiciis dei and De beatitudine animarum, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 113 (112) pp. · 19.5-20 x 14-14.5 cm · 9th century
Sanctus Ambrosius, Contra haereticos, eius Epistolae
A not particularly good quality copy of three letters by Ambrose, three chapters from the work De fide contra Arianos by Faustinus, the report (Relatio) by the Roman Prefect Symmachus (about 342-402/403) about the conflict over the altar of Victoria, and the oration of Augustine against the Arians (Contra sermonem Arrianorum) preceded by the oration of the Arians (Sermo Arrianorum). This Codex was produced in the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 285 pp. · 23 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
"De fide ad Gratianum contra perfidiam Arrianorum" from Ambrose
A superior quality St. Gallen copy of the work De fide ad Gratianum contra perfidiam Arrianorum from the 9th century, from the original by the early church Father Ambrose (about 339 - 397). The 9th century Carolingian binding remains intact. (smu)
Parchment · 516 pp. · 26 x 18.1-18.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Ambrosius, Homiliæ in evang. Lucæ, libri X.
Copy of an exegesis of the Gospel of Luke (Homilies on the Gospel of Luke) by the church father Ambrose, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 10th century. Includes numerous glosses by the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV. (d. about 1060). Also includes the Latin work in verse Nectaris Ambrosii redolentia carpito mella (Grasp the fragrant honey of ambrosian nectar), mentioned by Ekkehart IV. in his Casus sancti Galli, the history of the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 285 pp. · 25.5-26 x 18 cm · around 900
Ambrose, De officiis ministrorum
A summary presentation of Christian ethics by the early church father Ambrose (about 339 - 397), De officiis ministrorum. This copy is from around 900, probably not produced in the monastery of St. Gall. A short Psalter, a litany, and prayers precede the work by Ambrose. (smu)
Parchment · 238 pp. · 27 x 21-21.5 cm · Metz (probably in the area around Metz) · middle of the 9th century
A collection of the dogmatic works De spiritu sancto libri tres ad Gratianum and Libri tres de incarnatione contra Apollinaristes, both originally written by Ambrose; De laude sanctorum by Bishop Victricius of Rouen
A collection of the dogmatic works De spiritu sancto libri tres ad Gratianum and Libri tres de incarnatione contra Apollinaristes, both originally written by the early church father Ambrose († 397) together with De laude sanctorum by Bishop Victricius of Rouen († before 409). A northern French copy from the middle of the 9th century, probably not produced at the monastery of St. Gall, but rather in the area of Metz. The manuscript opens with six dedicatory verses by the priest Regimarus to King Ludwig the German (833-876) in Latin hexameter. (smu)
Parchment · 324 pp. · 31.5 x 23.5 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Ambrosiaster
A copy of the so-called "Ambrosiaster", a commentary on the Epistles of Paul, for a long time erroneously attributed to the Church father Ambrose (about 339-397), produced in the abbey of St. Gall at the beginning of the 9th century. The actual author of the Ambrosiaster is unknown. (smu)
Parchment · 364 pp. · 31.9-32 x 23.1-23.3 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Commentarius in epistolas Pauli ad Romanos, ad Corinthios.
A copy of the a commentary on the Epistles of Paul the Apostle to the Romans and the Corinthians (the so-called Ambrosiaster), produced in the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)
Parchment · 304 pp. · 29.5 x 22-22.5 cm · St. Gall · 10th century
Ambrose, De spiritu sancto and De incarnationis dominicae sacramento . Victricius of Rouen, De laude sanctorum
A well-crafted copy of the works De spiritu sancto and De incarnationis dominicae sacramento by the church father Ambrose and of the work De laude sanctorum by Bishop Victricius of Rouen, produced in the Cloister of St. Gall in the second half of the 9th century. Augmented with a number of glosses by the monk Ekkehart IV during the first half of the 11th century. (smu)
Parchment · 530 pp. · 28 x 22-22.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Chrysostomus Latinus
This copy of the so-called Chrysostomus Latinus is significant in terms of textual history study. This collection of 38 sermons and other works attributed to the early church father John Chrysostom (349/50-407) includes both ancient Latin translations of original works in Greek reliably attributable to John Chrysostom, and also some pieces originally written in Latin, the contents of some of which are identified and some are not, for which the celebrated sermonist is claimed as the author. A St. Gall copy from the second half of the 9th century. (smu)
Parchment · 212 pp. · 19.4-19.7 x 27.6-27.9 cm; 14.1 x 21.5-22.2 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century and 10th century
Sulpicii Severi vita S. Martini; Medicinalia; Grammaticalia.
A composite manuscript from the Abbey of St. Gall, consisting mainly of two parts. The first part includes a copy of the life of St. Martin of Tours, originally written by Sulpicius Severus sometime after 400 AD. This life of St. Martin, into which 5 pages containing an excerpt from the Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours have been inserted, was copied in two phases, one during the first half of the 9th century under the supervision of the scribe Wolfcoz and another during the second half of the 9th century. The second part, written in the 10th century at the Abbey of St. Gall, contains a copy of the medical tract De medicina ex Graecis logicae sectae auctoribus by the late Roman physician Cassius Felix (about 450) that is significant to textual history. (smu)
Parchment · 266 pp. · 25.5 x 21-21.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 9th century
Commentarius in librum Job
A copy of the commentary by a Pseudo-Jerome (Pseudo-Hrabanus Maurus) on the Old Testament book of Job; produced in the 9th century, possibly at the abbey of St. Gall; still in its original Carolingian-period binding. (smu)
Parchment · 561 pp. · 35.5-36 x 25.5-26 cm · 10th century
Pseudo-Hieronymi Commentarius in Psalmos
Jerome's commentary on the Psalms Tractatus super psalmos , produced in an unknown location (not at the Abbey of St. Gall), probably during the 10th century. (smu)
Parchment · 556 pp. · 27 x 17.1-17.4 cm · Northern Italy (Monza?) · 8th-9th century
Sermo S. Ysidori de Fine Mundi; Ps.-Hieronymus, Commentarius in Psalmos; etc.
This manuscript contains one of the few copies of the Scarpsum de dictis sancti Effrem prope fine mundi, here rendered as Sermo sancti Ysidori, ascribed to Isidor of Seville, and the psalm commentaries of Jerome (or a Pseudo-Jerome?), produced in northern Italy (possibly Monza) about the end of the 8th century. (smu)
Parchment · 558 pp. · 27.8-27.9 x 20-20.2 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Commentarius in Ecclesiasten; Explanatio in canticum canticorum; Excerpta varia
A composite manuscript consisting of two distinct parts: 1) a 9th century St. Gall copy of the commentary of Jerome on the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes and the commentary of Bishop Justus of Seu de Urgel (Urgelitanus) on the Song of Songs, 2) a collection of manuscripts of mainly patristic content, including excerpts from the works of Jerome, Benedict, Eucherius and Augustine. The manuscript, still in its original Carolingian binding, is also called the Egino-Codex and is supposed to have been produced in about the year 800 at the cloister of Reichenau by a group of Veronese scribes who had settled on the island of Reichenau together with their former (Veronese) bishop (796-799) Egino after he stepped down from his office. (smu)
Parchment · 352 pp. · 25-25.5 x 17.5-19 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Copy of Jerome's commentary on chapters 14-18 of the Book of Isaiah
A copy of the commentaries of the church father Jerome († 420) on chapters 14 through 18 of the Old Testament Book of Isaiah, written at the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. On the first and last pages are pen tests from the 11th through 15th centuries, including three Old High German proverbs from the compendium of dialectic De partibus logicae by St. St. Gall monk and teacher Notker the German, a blessing for pigs and a recipe for ink. On the inside of front and back covers are impressions in the glue left by portions of text from the Edictum Rothari (Cod. Sang. 730), which were once attached to the wooden cover of this manuscript. (smu)
Parchment · 322 pp. · 28 x 21.5 cm · Cloister of St. Gall · 9th century
Hieronymus, Commentarii in Esaiam, libri I-V.
A copy of the exegesis of Books 1-5 of the Old Testament prophet Isaiah by the Church Father Jerome († 420). The codex, created during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall as a copy of Cod. Sang. 113, still retains its original Carolingian binding. (sno)