Manuscript Summary:This folio-format miscellany is formatted as a single column in a looping bastarda script. On the former flyleaf there is a fragmentary evangeliary, also in a looping bastarda, (Mc 16:1; Lc 24:13; Lc 24:39; Io 21:1; Io 20:11 on pp. 3a–4b). The main part, which consists of moral-theological definitions and short narratives (pp. 5-297), has in ink original numbering in the centre of each leaf (1-150), as well as an accompanying table of contents (pp. 297-301). Before the table of contents there is a doxology and a book curse written as a shape poem which contrasts the salvation of the writer with that of a book thief (p. 297). A sermon for All Saints’ Day is written onto the last page as well as the endpaper (p. 302a-303b). On the verso side of the endpaper are the legend of the journey of the thirty pieces of silver from Abraham up until Judas’ betrayal (p. 304a) and a note in German about the pawning of the manuscript: the previous owner, Hans Rich, parish priest in Mosnang pawned the manuscript for four guilders and ten shillings (p. 304b). This final column has been stamped with the 1553-1564 St. Gallen library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer. The offset of a calendar is visible on the inside of the front and rear boards. The St. Gallen librarian Jodokus Metzler has stuck a table of contents onto the inside front cover. The leaf p. 1-2 is missing. The holes from five since lost buckles are visible in both the front and back of the brown leather covering the wooden board binding with plaited endband. The remains of two buckle straps can be seen on the back of the book, each fastened with a decorative tack in a floral design (15th or 16th century). On the front there are two stamped holes for the two buckles.(kun)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 274-275.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 815
Paper · 302 pp. · 29.5 x 20.5 cm · 15th century
Tractatus theologiae moralis
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 815, View front cover – Tractatus theologiae moralis (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/0815)
Folgt noch von der gleichen Hand S. 302-3 ein ‘Sermo de omnibus sanctis’ und S. 304 etwas aus der alttestam. Geschichte.
Provenance of the manuscript: Der Besitzer des Buchs Hans Richen lutpriester zu Masnang verpfändete dasselbe a° 1573 an einen Bruder Jacob um 4 Gulden 10 Schilling (p. 304).
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