Manuscript Summary:This manuscript, written in multiple hands, contains an anonymous commentary on the Catholic epistles (Stegmüller, Repertorium Biblicum, No. 3235, 14–20). Stegmüllers ascription of the text to a St. Gall monk named Hermann, who supposedly was a student of Peter Abelard, is not convincing (cf. David Luscombe, Sententie magistri Petri Abaelardi, Turnhout 2006, pp. 49*–55*). The commentary is preceded by two prologues (pp. 1–2), the first of which is based on Peter Abelard’s prologue to the Letter to the Romans (Stegmüller, RB 6378), while the second comes from Ps.-Jerome (Stegmüller, RB 809). Each of the commentaries on the individual epistles is preceded by a chapter outline and an argumentum from the Glossa ordinaria (edited in PL 114, col. 671 ff. as the work of Walafrid Strabo). The text of the epistles is incorporated into the commentaries and signaled with citation marks in the margin. On the last page (p. 112) appears Gottschalk of Aachen’s sequence for the feast Conversio sancti Pauli, inc. Dixit dominus ex Basan convertam. Ornamentation is limited to two- and three-line red capital initials. The manuscript is bound in a limp binding made from blank leather with a parchment lining and closed with a triangular flap. On the inside of the cover and on p. 112 can be found the library stamp from the abbacy of Diethelm Blarer (1553–1564); on p. 1 a shelfmark from the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Manuscr A 48). According to notes on the inside cover and on p. 1, the codex, which came to Bern in 1712 (as booty in the Toggenburger war) was returned to the Abbey Library of St. Gall in 1863.(sno)
Standard description: Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 505.
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Additional description: Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, St. Gallen II, Genf 1938, S. 123.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1716
Parchment · 112 pp. · 26.5–27 x 18.5–19 cm · St. Gallen (?) · 12th century
Commentary on the Catholic epistles
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1716, Front cover – Commentary on the Catholic epistles (https://www.e-codices.ch/en/list/one/csg/1716)
(S. 3-5)
Praedicendum videtur ad operis insinuationem quid prologus sit quid argumentum …
(S. 5-111)
Commentar zu den Briefen Jacobi, Petri I und II, Johannis I, II und III und Judae mit Registern, Argumenten und dem vollständigen Text; letzterer ist zwischen die Erklärung eingefügt und am Rande durch Anführungszeichen von den Noten unterschieden.
Anfang des Commentars:
Quia in circumcisione …
Ende (S. 111)
et potens cui nichil resistit
In der Mitte (S. 66-68) ein Excurs über die kanonischen Briefe im Allgemeinen:
Jacobus Petrus Johannes Judas VII epistolas ediderunt …–…
illos dispergi
(S. 112)
Dixit dominus ex Basan …–…
in carne venisse redemptorem.
Gottschalk’s Hymnus in conversione S. Pauli apostoli Wackernagel Deutsches K. Lied I p. 106