Faustus, Reiensis (401-500)
This is an almost square manuscript with wide margins, into which several glosses have been inserted. The manuscript's main text is the treatise De statu animarum by Claudianus Mamertus, which had been widely disseminated in the Middle Ages. The manuscript was certainly not produced in Einsiedeln, but probably originated in Soissons.
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This codex contains on 6r-95v the three books "On the status of the soul" by the French theologian Claudianus Mamertus (ca. 425-ca. 475), an apologetic treatise on the incorporeity of the soul, written to oppose a writing by bishop Faustus von Reji (3r-6r). Initials by the so-called Engelberg Master appear at the beginning of the prologue and of each of the three books (3r, 6r, 7v, 48v, 77v). The marginal notes are often framed in red, and some of the capitals are in red. An ownership note on the back of the flyleaf ascribes the volume to Abbot Berchtold of Engelberg (1178-1197).
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Faustus, Reiensis: libellus Fausti Rhegiensis seu epistola contra eos qui dicunt esse in creaturis aliquid incorporeum. (fol. 2'-6)
Incipit: Praecipis ut respondeam, quae in rebus humanis corporea
Explicit: sancti spiritus societate dominatur.
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Second volume of the libri II omeliarum et sermonum per totum annum, with Sermones de tempore (f. 1v), Sermones de sanctis (f. 136v) and Sermones de communi sanctorum (f. 237v) for the period from Pentecost until the end of the liturgical year; it is listed in the supplements to the Allerheiligen Abbey register of books from about 1100 (Min. 17, f. 306v). This manuscript is written in two columns and, except for the last, incomplete page, by one and the same hand; with numerous initials with scroll ornamentation in red ink stretching across up to 20 lines and with emphasized fonts, it is among the most beautiful manuscripts created at All Saints Abbey. In the 15th century, this codex, like many others, received a new leather binding with metal bosses and two clasps; f. 1 (detached since then) served as pastedown, the back pastedown (after f. 287) is missing.
Online Since: 09/26/2017
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Faustus, Reiensis (Author) | Fulbertus, Carnotensis (Author) | Fulgentius, Claudius Gordianus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Haimo, Halberstadensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Ildephonsus, Toletanus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Maximus, Taurinensis (Author) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Petrus, Chrysologus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Manuscript compilation from the second half of the 8th century, written and decorated with several extraordinary initials, possibly at a “Swiss center under Burgundian or Irish influence” (Bruckner) or instead “in western Alemannia or in eastern Burgundy” (Bischoff), perhaps also in Müstair. The manuscript contains large parts of - but not in full - Pope Gregory the Great's († 604) homilies on the Gospels (Homiliae in evangelia), as well as excerpts from authentic and inauthentic works by Augustine († 430) and Caesarius of Arles († 542).
Online Since: 12/20/2012
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Cod. Sang. 1398a is one of eight fragment volumes (that is, volumes that contain exclusively fragments) of the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Between 1774 and 1785, the St. Gall monks Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756–1823) and Ildefons von Arx (1755–1833) detached numerous fragments from bindings in which they had served for centuries as pastedowns, flyleaves, spine linings, and endleaf guards. At an advanced age, Ildefons von Arx had the fragments bound in eight thematically-organized bindings and dedicated these in 1822 to his friend Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger. Chiefly in the twentieth century, researchers found additional, small fragments in bindings, from which they were then removed and added to the existing fragment volumes or into the collection of fragments. Before 1875, 121 folios were removed from Cod. Sang. 1398 and bound in a separate volume, Cod. Sang. 1398b. The old volume with the remaining folios received the shelfmark Cod. Sang. 1398a. From 2003 to 2004 the extensive fragment volume Cod. Sang. 1398a was disbound for conservation reasons. The fragments were rebound (in the same sequence) in 14 folders (“Ganzpapierbroschuren”). The new, now authoritative pagination begins with 1 in each folder and includes only the fragments (and not the empty paper leaves). To be cited (for example): St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1398a.1, pp. 1-2 (= Cod. Sang. 1398a, Folder 1, pages 1-2). The fourteenth folder of Cod. Sang. 1398a contains fragments from five manuscripts. They transmit, among others, the De sacramentis christiane fidei (p. 1-4) by Hugh of Saint-Victor and a commentary on the Doctrinale by Alexander of Villedieu (p. 9-12), from the twelfth to the fourteenth century.
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