Manuscript Summary:Manuscript compilation containing the works of Abbot Bernard of Reichenau (about 978- 1048; Abbot 1008-1048): a fragmentary copy of a long dedicatory codex, delivered by Bernard to King Heinrich III on the occasion of the Synod of Konstanz in the year 1043. Also contains the Epistola de tonis (on psalmodic musical tones), sermons for the high holy days of the Church year, sermons about St. Mark, the patron saint of Reichenau, hymns, sequences dedicated to Saints Ulrich, Gereon, and Willibrord, the holy office devoted to St. Ulrich, and a large collection of letters. Many of the works in this manuscript are the sole surviving exemplars from the second third of the 11th century.(smu)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 314-315.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 898
Parchment · 110 pp. · 21.5 x 16 cm · Reichenau · second third of the 11th century
Bernonis Epistolae cum sermonibus et hymnis
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 898, Front cover – Bernonis Epistolae cum sermonibus et hymnis (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0898)
Zwischen diesen dreizehn Briefen überdies vier Predigten S. 39, 50, 86 und 97; im ganzen Bande also 14 Briefe, 6 Predigten und 3 Hymnen. Kurze Inhaltsangabe der Hs. bei Gerbert Iter p. 114 (Ed. 2).