St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213, Back cover – Palimpsest Manuscript: Divinae institutiones by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius; the Dialogs of Gregory the Great etc.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213, Back cover – Palimpsest Manuscript: Divinae institutiones by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius; the Dialogs of Gregory the Great etc.
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Manuscript Summary:Palimpsest Manuscript with texts from the 8th (upper script band) and 5th (lower script band) centuries. The manuscript consists of a fragmentary copy of great importance in the field of textual study, from Italy, written in Roman Uncial script, containing passages from books 1 through 6 of the work Divinae institutiones (Divine Instructions) by Roman author Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius (about 250 - 325) made in the 5th century. To these the Dialogs of Gregory the Great and shorter theological texts by Augustine, Isidore of Seville and additional (mostly unknown) authors were added in the 8th century, probably in St. Gall.(smu)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 76-77.
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Additional description: Lowe Elias Avery, Codices Latini Antiquiores. A palaeographical guide to latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century. Part VII: Switzerland, Oxford 1956 (Osnabrück 1982), p. 25.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213
Parchment · 180 pp. · 26.5 x 17.5 cm · Italy / St. Gallen · 5th century (lower script) / 8th century (upper script)
Palimpsest Manuscript: Divinae institutiones by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius; the Dialogs of Gregory the Great etc.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 213, Back cover – Palimpsest Manuscript: Divinae institutiones by Lucius Caelius Firmianus Lactantius; the Dialogs of Gregory the Great etc. (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0213)
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 76-77.
Date of origin: s. VIII
Support: Pergament
Extent:
180 Seiten
Format: 4° (26 ½ x 17 ½ cm.)
Condition: Auf dünnem, zerknittertem Pergament.
Page layout:
zu 33-34 Zeilen
Writing and hands: Von Einer Hand.
Contents:
Codex rescriptus. Die primitive Schrift des Codex enthielt in röm. Uncial einen grossen Theil von LactantiiDiv. institutiones, wovon noch einige Stellen p. 43, 83 und 122 lesbar sind. Niebuhrs eigenhändige Copie ist dem Codex beigelegt.
1.
S. 5-150Gregorii M.: Dialogi libri IV.>Incip. lib. prim. de aliquor. sci Gregorii pape.<>Expl. lib. quartus de aliquorum amen do gratias.<
Ueber die Aechtheit dieser Schrift siehe
(S. 158)
ein unbekannter:
>Omelia sci Augustini epi paschalis<O f k presentem diem venerare debemus …
Filiation: dieser auch in Einsiedeln No. 281 und in Rheinau No. 140 (u. d. N. Augustin) und eine Admonitio sci Flausti (l. Fausti, episc. Regiens.), die noch einmal in Cod. 221 p. 123 steht.
Gedr. bei Canis. V, 2; in Cursus Migne 58, 887
und in Opp. Aug. ed. Migne V, 1963.
3.
S. 161-175>Sci Ysidori de conversis<
(nebst mehrern weitern Rubriken; alles aus Isidor's Sententiae lib. II cap. 7-17 und 38-39;
Ed. du Breul p. 640-646 und p. 654-56).
4.
S. 176-177
(ohne Ueberschrift):
Asia ab oriente vocata …–…
et est civis nobilis in inperio est capud provincie.