The following descriptions are available for this manuscript

  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 281-282.
    Show standard description
  • Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, St. Gallen II, Genf 1938, S. 118.
    Show additional description
  • Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 204-205.
    (Additional description, currently displayed)
  • Lohr Carolus, Aristotelica Helvetica, Scrinium Friburgense (Sonderband 6), Freiburg 1994, S. 255.
    Show additional description
  • Toneatto Lucio, Codices Artis Mensoriae. I Manoscritti degli antichi opuscoli latini d'agrimensura (V-XIX sec.), Bd. I., Spoleto 1994, pp. 348-353.
    Show additional description
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 830
Creative Commons License

Codices Boethiani, A Conspectus of manuscripts of the works of Boethius II, ed. by Smith Lesley, London-Turin 2001, p. 204-205.

Manuscript title: Logica vetus
Place of origin: Germany
Date of origin: s. XI 1/3
Support: Parchment
Extent: iv + 490 pages; (pp. 1-2 flyleaves, removed)
Format: page 229 x 188 mm
Page layout: 27-32 lines; text 165 x 110 mm (pp. 3-18), 175 x 130 mm (pp. 19-488);
Writing and hands: several good scribes.
Decoration:
  • Tituli in red rustic capitals throughout.
  • Decoration consistent throughout volume. Good quality red outline initials at the beginning of each new text. Some internal book-incipits, 2 in Int. (pp. 3,46, 101, 136, 186, 226); Cicero, Topica (p. 265); Top. Diff. (pp. 311, 320, 333, 342); Syll. Hyp. (pp. 444, 457, 473).
Additions: Marcius Novatus Renatus v. c. et sp. relegit mecum (p. 353).
Colophon, p. 309.
Gloss: 2 in Int. with subject headings, but no extensive annotation; Topica with extensive headings, including two passages from Topica Aris. (= Aristotle, Topica, AL (=Aristoteles Latinus, ed. G. Lacombe and L. Minio-Paluello, 3 vold, Rome, 1939; Cambridge, 1955; Bruges-Paris, 1961), v.1.); De rhetorice cognatione with subject headings and comments; intr. Syll. Cat. with subject headings and some notes; Syll. Cat. with subject headings and some notes; Syll. Hyp. with very little annotation; Ekkehart IV's annotation, p. 488.
Binding: white tooled leather on wood; two clasps (upper one repaired). Parchment label top centre on front cover sex libri periermeniarum boecius de topicis cicero de topicis geometria.
Contents:
  • Pp. 3-264 2 in Int. (= Second commentary on De interpretatione, Teubner, 1877.);
  • 265-82 Cicero: Topica
  • 283-309 Ps.- Boethius: Geometria I
  • 311-53 Top. Diff. (= De differentiis topicis, PL (= J.-P. Migne, Patrologiae Latinae cursus completus, 221 vols, Paris, 1844-64), 64:1173-1216, and NIkitas, pp. 1-92.), with elegant table in five cols contrasting Themistius and Cicero (p. 340);
  • 353-69 Div. (= De Divisione, PL, 64: 159-294);
  • 369-76 Ps.-Boethius: De rhetorice cognatione
  • 376-408 intr. Syll. Cat. (= Introduction to the Categorical syllogismus, PL, 64:761-94);
  • 408-44 Syll. Cat. (= De syllogismis categoricis, PL, 64:793-832);
  • 444-88 Syll. Hyp. (= De syllogismis hypotheticis, PL, 64:831-76);
  • 488 Ekkehart of St Gall,: De Boethio Explicit memorandum dogma sophiae …–… Qui bybliothecas vestisti lumine caecas
  • 489 drawings, verses and scribbles;
  • 490 (s. xii addition) De septem artibus , inc. Adstantes avidi vates populusque david
Origin of the manuscript: Germany. Probably produced in Mainz (Hoffmann).
Acquisition of the manuscript: Brought to St Gall by Ekkehart IV.
Bibliography:
  • Scherrer, pp. 281-2;
  • E. Chatelain, Paleographie des classiques latines, 2 vols, Paris, 1884-92 and 1894-1900, i, p. 6, pI. Xxi.I;
  • C. Thulin, 'Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Corpus Agrimensorum. Exzerptenhandschriften und Kompendien', Göteborgs Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhälles Handlingar, 14,1911, p. 25;
  • MBKDS, I, p. 118, line 12, no. 23;
  • AL, 1165;
  • Bruckner, Ill, pp. 47, 118;
  • G. F. Pagallo, 'Per una edizione critica del "De Hypotheticis Syllogismis" di Boezio', Italia medioevale e umanistica, I, 1958, p. 73;
  • Folkerts, p. 96;
  • S. Sonderegger,'Notker der Deutsche und Cicero. Aspekte einer mittelalterlichenRezeption', Florilegium Sangallense. Festschrift für J. Duft zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. O. Clavadetscher, H. Maurer and S. Sonderegger, St Gall and Sigmaringen, 1980, p. 264;
  • Folkerts II, pp. 97, 104;
  • Munk Olsen, I, p. 286 (c. 478);
  • Hoffmann, I, pp. 247,253,256-7 (description), 271;
  • Nikitas, p. lvii;
  • Die Abtei St. Gallen, II, p. 218, n. 46;
  • Lohr, AH, p. 255;
  • Toneatto, I, pp. 348-53; III, p.922.