Select manuscript from this collection: Cod. Sang. 1  Cod. Sang. 458 Cod. Sang. 461  Cod. Sang. 2135  395/882

Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
St. Gallen
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Stiftsbibliothek
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
Cod. Sang. 459
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Computational/scientific compilation with numerous tables, schematics
Caption:
Caption
Parchment · 366 pp. · 21 x 15-17 cm · St. Gall · 9th/10th centuries
Language:
Language
Latin
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
Computational/scientific compilation manuscript with numerous tables, schematics, and texts about calendar computation, produced in the monastery of St. Gall around the end of the 9th century and beginning ot the 10th. The volume also includes a St. Gallen calendar and the Annales Sangallenses brevissimi (a short history of St. Gall). Two early medieval maps of the world (terrae orbis or T-O maps) precede the work De temporum ratione by the Venerable Bede. (smu)
Standard description:
Standard description
Scarpatetti Beat Matthias von, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Bd. 2: Abt. III/2: Codices 450-546: Liturgica, Libri precum, deutsche Gebetbücher, Spiritualia, Musikhandschriften 9.-16. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden 2008, S. 30-36.
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Additional description:
Additional description
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 151.
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-csg-0459 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-csg-0459)
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Permanent link
http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0459
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 459: Computational/scientific compilation with numerous tables, schematics (http://e-codices.unifr.ch/en/list/one/csg/0459).
Online Since:
Online Since
12/09/2008
Additional literature:
Additional literature
Additional literature – St. Galler Bibliotheksnetz (SGBN) - Verbundkatalog
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
9th century, 10th century
Decoration:
Decoration
Full Page, Initial, Ornamental, Penwork, Schematic, Text Block
Binding:
Binding
9th century, 10th century
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Materiality
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Szirmai J. A., Carolingian Bindings in the Abbey Library of St Gall, in: Making the Medieval Book: Techniques of Production, ed. by L. L. Brownrigg. Proceedings of the Fourth Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1992, Anderson-Lovelace 1995, 157-179.

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