Paulus, Diaconus (720-799)
This small-format paper manuscript from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel is mostly by the hand of the librarian Georg Carpentarius, who for the sake of daily spiritual exercises compiled prayers for various occasions, hymns, meditations and other theological texts. Among the identifiable authors are great ones such as Anselm of Canterbury and Bernard of Clairvaux, as well as lesser known names such as Basilius Phrisius. Two colored prints are glued in the covers: St. George with the dragon (front pastedown) and the Mass of St. Gregory (back pastedown).
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homilia 52 (253r-258v)
Incipit: Creatoris matrem omnis creatura magnificet, eius gloriosę maiestati inclinent
Explicit: in sempiterna sęcula amen.
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- Adamus, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Alantsee, Ambrosius (Author) | Albertus, Magnus (Author) | Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Bonaventura, Sanctus (Author) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Scribe) | Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Dorlandus, Petrus (Author) | Erasmus, Desiderius (Author) | Gennadius, Scholarius (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hermannus, Augiensis (Author) | Heynlin, Johannes (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hugo, de Sancto Victore (Author) | Johannes, Gerson (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Phrisius, Basilius (Author) | Robert I., France, Roi (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the homilary of Paulus Diaconus for the winter season and was written and illustrated during the 9th and 10th centuries by various St. Gall copyists. It belonged to the Charter House at Basel, to which it was presented, like B IV 26, by Pierre de la Trilline, Bishop of Lodève near Montpellier (1430-1441), who served in various capacities at the Council of Basel.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homiliarum : pars hiemalis ab adventu usque ad dominicam palmarum pertinens, breviatum tamen et immutatum necnon hic illic laceratum Found in: Standard description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pierre, de la Trilline (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi Found in: Additional description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homiliarium Pauli Diaconi: pars hiemalis ab adventu usque ad dom. palmarum pertinens, breviatum tamen et immutatum necnon hic illic laceratum (f. 1r–146v) Found in: Additional description
- Heinrich Arnoldi (Former possessor) | Heinrich Arnoldi (Librarian) | Louber, Jakob (Annotator) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pierre, de la Trilline (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript, written by various, difficult to distinguish copyists during the 10th century, contains the homilary of Paulus Diaconus for the winter season. It is decorated with two interesting full-page pen drawings (6r and 68v) and numerous flower-adorned initials in the St. Gall book decoration style. It belonged to the Charter House at Basel and, like B III 2, was a gift from Pierre de la Trilline, Bishop of Lodève near Montpellier (1430-1441), who served in various capacities at the Council of Basel.
Online Since: 02/17/2010
- Paulus, Diaconus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bitz, Wilhelm (Restorer) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Gregormeister (Illuminator) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Leo I, Papa (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This early 14th century manuscript was copied in Italy; it brings together Ovid's Ars amatoria (The Art of Love), two books of Priscian's grammar, excerpts from the Secretum secretorum, an incomplete book on physiognomy by an unknown author, as well as a series of hymns attributed to, among others, Gregory the Great, St. Ambrose or Sedulius. The manuscript, which is missing two leaves at the beginning, shows old signs of use, with commentaries and maniculae added in the margins. This copy has no decoration with the exception of several red and mauve pen-flourish initials, highlighted in gold and framed.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
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- Ambrosianus (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Aristoteles (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Elpis, Sicula (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Odo, Cluniacensis (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Paulinus, Aquileiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Philippus, Tripolitanus (Translator) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This copy of the Lives of the Saints, produced during the 12th century, possibly in the German Cloister of Weissenau, is decorated with ornately detailed and illustrated initial capitals, including one notable initial in which the illuminator, "Fr. Ruffilus" includes himself (fol. 244r).
Online Since: 05/20/2009
- Paulus, Diaconus: Vita s. Gregorii Magni (f. 172v col. 1-176r col. 2)
Incipit: Gregorius urbe Roma a patre Gordiano editus non solum expectabili senatorum prosapia
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- Adrevaldus, Floriacensis (Author) | Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Amphilochius, Cappadox (Author) | Amphilochius, Sidetes (Author) | Antonius, Hagiographus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Cogitosus (Author) | Eberwinus, Treverensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Goswinus, Moguntinensis (Author) | Iacobus, Diaconus (Author) | Iocundus, Presbyter (Author) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) | Odo, Fossatensis (Author) | Otloh, de Sancto Emmeramo (Author) | Paulinus, Mediolanensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Pseudo-Goldscherus Trevirensis (Author) | Theodoricus, Floriacensis (Author) | Uranius, Presbyter (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Wibertus, Tullensis (Author) | Zacharias, Papa (Author) Found in: Standard description
This large, incomplete manuscript in folio format contains the summer portion and the Commune sanctorum of the homiliary by Paulus Diaconus. It was written by various hands in a 9th century Carolingian minuscule; in addition to initials drawn in ink and decorated with red scrolls which indicate an Irish influence, there are even several elegant incipits in capital script. The manuscript probably comes from Reichenau, certainly from the area of Lake Constance. It belonged to the Phillipps collection, later to Chester Beatty; it was bought in 1968 by Martin Bodmer.
Online Since: 06/23/2014
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homiliarium (Pars aestiva et Commune sanctorum) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Homiliarium (f. 2-197v) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Tabula homiliarum (f. 2-2v)
Incipit: In uigilia unius apostoli cum secundum Iohannem dixit Ihesus discipulis suis ego sum uitis Uera. Omelia beati Augustini episcopi de eadem lectione
Explicit: f. 2v col. 1CXXXIII IN ieiunio decimi men sis sermo Leonis papae. CXXXIIII Item alius sermo de eodem ieiunio.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Commune Sanctorum (f. 147-197v) Found in: Standard description
- Beatty, Alfred Chester (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Beatty, Alfred Chester (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
The text De verborum significatu by the Latin grammarian Pompeius Festus is an extremely valuable dictionary of Latin language and mythology for those seeking to understand the world of the Romans. This manuscript is of Italian origin and retains its contemporary binding with a wooden cover. It was written during the 15th century on parchment and contains lovely gilded initials on a blue and red background. Quotations have been added in the margins to explain certain words in the text. The last leaves in the volume contain excerpts from Greek and Latin authors.
Online Since: 06/02/2010
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- Apicius (Author) | Aristophanes (Author) | Asconius Pedianus, Quintus (Author) | Berchem, Denis van (Former possessor) | Bruni, Leonardo (Translator) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Festus, Sextus Pompeius (Author) | Gellius, Aulus (Author) | Lactantius, Lucius Caecilius Firmianus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Plinius Secundus, Gaius (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Schennis, Friedrich von (Former possessor) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Servius (Author) | Suetonius Tranquillus, Gaius (Author) | Varro, Marcus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This rather hefty tome (weighing nearly 17 Kilos) compiled around 1200 contains copies in Latin of major works of world-, church- and ethnic history; examples include the History of the World by Orosius, the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea, the Summa of Biblical history (Historica Scholastica) of the early Parisian scholastic Peter Comestor († ca. 1179), the history of the first crusade by Robert of Reims, the history of the Langobards by Paulus Diaconus, the History of the English Church and People by the Venerable Bede, and Einhard's Life of Charlemagne.
Online Since: 10/04/2011
- Paulus, Diaconus: Paulus Diaconus, Geschichte der Langobarden Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Historia Longobardorum (517a-554b) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Einhardus (Author) | Erchanbertus (Author) | Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Belethus (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
Manuscript compilation with partly hagiographic content, written in the monastery of St. Gall in about 900. Contains, among other items, the Vita metrica Sancti Martini by Paulinus of Périgueux, the Vita metrica sancti Martini by Venantius Fortunatus, a copy of the Visio Wettini by Haito and Walahfrid Strabe, the Revelatio Baronti monachi and the Life of the Martyr Leodgar in metric (poem) form.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Paulinus, Petricordiensis: De visitatione nepotuli sui (166-172) Found in: Standard description
- Paulinus, Petricordiensis: Prologus (166-167)
Incipit: Domino sancto ac beatissimo patrono perpetuo episcopo paulinus
Explicit: scribere quia permittetis audeamus
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- Paulinus, Petricordiensis: Vita (167-171)
Incipit: Quam modicam stillam quanto torrente rependis
Explicit: optata indulgens propere uel prestita seruans
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- Paulinus, Petricordiensis: Versus Paulini de orantibus. (171-172)
Incipit: Quisque solo ad clinis mersisti in puluere uultum
Explicit: in cunctum pergit pietas tam prodiga mundum.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Versus de B.M.V. et de Sta. Cruce (466-467) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: In Basilica Sanctae Mariae (466-467) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: In Basilica Sanctae Mariae (466-467) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Hatto, Basiliensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Carmina et epigrammata diversa (p. 466-476)
Incipit: O una ante omnes felix
Explicit: pectora uestra sonet.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Versus in basilica sanctae mariae (p. 466)
Incipit: O una ante omnes felix
Explicit: sanguinem plebem.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Versus super crucem (p. 466-7)
Incipit: Adam per lignum mortem
Explicit: dira uenena queat.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Alfabetum de bonis sacerdotibus (p. 467-470)
Incipit: Ad perennis uite fontem
Explicit: regnum mundi ab origine
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Alfabetum de malis sacerdotibus (p. 470-474)
Incipit: Aquarum meis quis det
Explicit: Gaudia regni
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Disticon in foribus (p. 474-475)
Incipit: Dulcis amice ueni pacem
Explicit: tibi pone supercilium.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Coniurationes convivarum pro potu (p. 475)
Incipit: Dulcis amice bibe gratanter
Explicit: cruenta canum.
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- Paulus, Diaconus: Ante fores basilicae (p. 476)
Incipit: Haec domus est domini et sacra
Explicit: pectora uestra sonet.
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Hatto, Basiliensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Grimaldus, Sangallensis (Patron) | Hatto, Basiliensis (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulinus, Petricordiensis (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Venantius, Fortunatus (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
13th century composite manuscript consisting of 8 parts: 1) excerpts from the martyrologies of the St. Gall Monk Notker Balbulus and of Ado of Vienne (p. 3-10), 2) copy of about half of Petrus Comestor's Historia Scholastica (p. 11-234), 3) Canones apostolorum et conciliorum prolati per Clementem papam in a smaller format booklet by another hand (p. 235-252), 4) excerpts from the work Panormia by Ivo of Chartres (p. 246b-252b), 5) Historia Langobardorum by Petrus Diaconus with an annex by Andrea Bergamensis (p. 253a-272b), 6) Historia Hierosolymitana by Robertus Monachus Remigiensis (p. 273a-313a), 7) appendices concerning the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the schism of the Church of Utrecht, and the death of Conrad III (p. 313), 8) excerpts from the Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ab Hadriano usque ad Constantinum by Martin of Opava (Martinus Polonus; p. 314-330).
Online Since: 12/13/2013
- Paulus, Diaconus: Geschichte der Langobarden Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Historia Langobardorum cum annexu Andreae Bergamensis (253a-272b) Found in: Standard description
- Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Andreas, Bergamensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Martinus, Oppaviensis (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Historia Longobardorum a Paulo montis Cassini monacho edita (S. 253-272) Found in: Additional description
- Ado, Viennensis (Author) | Andreas, Bergamensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Martinus, Oppaviensis (Author) | Notker, Balbulus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Robertus, Remensis (Author) Found in: Additional description
This is a copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the Historia Longobardorum (History of the Langobards) by the Langobard monk and author Paulus Diaconus († 797/799), who was active in Montecassino. It was written in northern Italy, possibly in Verona, around 800 by a variety of hands. The volume has been at the monastery of St. Gall since the 9th century already.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
- Paulus, Diaconus: Paulus Diaconus, Geschichte der Langobarden Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Historia Langobardorum libri sex (1-243) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Textus (1-241) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Capitula libri quinti. (242-243) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Capitula libri quinti. (242-243) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Goldast, Melchior (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Paulus Diaconus, Historia Langobardorum. Found in: Additional description
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- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Goldast, Melchior (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) Found in: Additional description
- Paulus, Diaconus: Historia Longobardorum Libri VI. Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Goldast, Melchior (Annotator) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) Found in: Additional description
A significant poetry manuscript from the second half of the 9th as well as the 10th century, produced at the Abbey of St. Gall. Among other items it contains copies of the poem Mosella by Ausonius which recounts a trip on the Rhine and Mosel rivers, a poem in hexameter by Walahfrid Strabo on the life and death of the Irish saint Blathmac (Versus Strabi de beati Blaithmaic vita et fine) and the work De ieiunio quattuor temporum (the so-called Calixtus Letter).
Online Since: 12/23/2008
- Paulus, Diaconus: Versus (45) Found in: Standard description
- Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Petrus, Pisanus (Author) | Theodulfus, Aurelianensis (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
Cod. Sang. 1397 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. From 2005 to 2006 the extensive fragment volume Cod. Sang. 1397 was disbound for conservation reasons. The fragments were rebound (in the same sequence) in 23 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. 1397.1, pp. 1-2 (= Cod. Sang. 1397, Folder 1, pages 1-2). The eleventh folder of Cod. Sang. 1397 contains fragments, including one with musical notation, from eight liturgical manuscripts from the ninth to the thirteenth century.
Online Since: 09/06/2023
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Paulus, Diaconus (Author) | Smaragdus, Sancti Michaelis (Author) Found in: Standard description