This small-format manuscript contains for the most part sermons (pp. 3–49). They have been numbered (1–39) in the margin by a later hand, which also wrote the title Sermones de tempore and the ownership mark Liber s. Galli on p. 3. According to Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters für die Zeit von 1150–1350, II.766 und IV.49 and Hamesse, Repertorium initiorum manuscriptorum latinorum medii aevi, No. 31477, the authors of these sermons include Lothario dei Segni (Innocent III), Hugh of Saint-Cher, and Nicholaus de Gorran. A wide range of texts follows on p. 49: seven short letters or letter formularies on pp. 49–51 (including from the Abbot of Isny to the Abbot of Blaubeuren, from the Duke of Bavaria to two bailiffs, from parents to their son, studying in Padua, and from the student to his parents); mnemonic aids on the Eucharist, the duties of a confessor, the seven sacraments, etc. (p. 51); an additional sermon (p. 52) (by Lucas de Bitonto; Schneyer, Repertorium, IV.56, No. 88); the Fifteen Portents of the Last Judgment (p. 53); Odo of Cheriton’s Parabola De rustico et eius domino (p. 54); a Tractatus naturalis, inc: Cum alterius nature sit truncus, alterius surculus (pp. 55–62); a commentary on Aristotle’s De anima, inc: Bonorum honorabilium noticiam [...] subiectum huius libri de anima est anima prout est coniuncta corpori (p. 63-77). The manuscript, bereft of ornamentation, is bound in an early-modern cardboard binding that has been covered in fragments of a printed missal. (sno)

The manuscript has three codicological units (pp. 5–76, 77–168, 169–184), which differ in layout and script. They chiefly contain sermons, and a few Marian miracles in the second part (e.g., p. 118). Some feasts or saints, such as the Assumption (pp. 94-96, 171-175), St. John the Baptist (pp. 88, 175-178, 183-184) and especially Saint Catherine (pp. 65, 106–109, 148–153), appear in many or all parts of this manuscript. The binding, covered in red leather, dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. (rou)

The manuscript is made up of seven codicological units (pp. 5–52, 53–76, 77–92, 93–124, 125–140, 141–156, 157–164), which are sometimes incomplete and which have different layouts, scripts, and decoration. They all contain sermons and were copied in the fourteenth century. Only the first series of sermons (pp. 5-46) ends with a table of contents (p. 46-52); at the beginning of series appears the library stamp of Abbot Diethelm Blarer on a manuscript fragment containing on the recto a sermon (p. 3) and, on the verso, a miracle involving a usurer (p. 4). The cardboard binding, covered with leather on the back and corners, has a fragment of a printed breviary and dates from the seventeenth/eighteenth century. (rou)

This manuscript contains around a third of the text of Jacobus of Voragine’s Legenda aurea, where some texts appear twice. The first part (pp. 1–267) begins with Advent and ends with All Souls’ Day and the consecration of a church. The title written over the first text (Sermo de adventu domini, p. 1) is misleading and has led to the misidentification of the manuscript’s contents as sermones. The second part (pp. 271–665) begins with Matthias (24 February) and ends with Thomas (21 December). This collection has been supplemented with a few texts from the so-called Provincia-Appendix (Oswald, Ulrich, Pelagius, Verena, Gallus, Otmar, Konrad), which have been added at the appropriate place in the ecclesiastical year. Between the two parts (pp. 267–270) can be found seven short exempla, the first three of which are based on texts from the Verba seniorum. Two scribes took part in producing the manuscript. The change in hand on p. 382/383 (at the end of a quire, but in the middle of a word) is accompanied by a change in decoration; while in the preceding part only a few multi-line red initials are adorned with simple red pen-flourishes, in the following part the pen-flourishes are two-color (red/blue), more luxuriant and finer. The pen-flourishes resemble those in the manuscript Fribourg, BCU, ms. L 34, but in comparison is somewhat less refined. Noticeable in the first part are found multi-color decorative stitching and holes filled with needlework (p. 55/56, 75/76, 115/116, 123/124, 131/132, 143/144 und 147/148). On the upper margin of pp. 7–664 can be found an old foliation (III–CCCXXXI). The cardboard binding, covered in blank parchment and adorned with green-silk ribbons as clasps, dates from the eighteenth/nineteenth century. (sno)

This volume brings together two paper manuscripts (pp. 1-238, 239-429) of the sermons of Peregrinus de Oppeln (ca. 1260-1333), Dominican prior and provincial minister of Poland. The first is dated by the explicit (p. 218) to 18 July 1458 and contains his Sermones de sanctis (pp. 3-218). The following pages (pp. 218-236) are in the hand of the same copyist and include excerpts from the life of Saint Wiborada (pp. 220-236). The second manuscript contains Peregrinus de Oppeln’s Sermones de tempore, but was copied in the fourteenth century (pp. 237-429). Introduced with a decorated initial (p. 239), this part is very neat, annotated, and bears an amusing caricature of Satan (p. 342). According to the possession note on p. 428, at least the second part belonged to the Franciscan Johannes Schirmer. As the original binding attests, these two parts had to have been bound together in the fifteenth century. (rou)

Among the Stiftsbibliothek’s oldest dated paper manuscripts (p. 136), Cod. Sang. 1045 contains sermons on the Gospels in the order of the readings of Lent (pp. 9-136), followed by an officium lugubri (p. 137-152). The text, copied in a single column in an early gothic book cursive, is regular, with simple initials at the beginning of the different postils, paragraph marks and letters highlighted with rubric. Numerous annotations specify the weekday involved. Quire guards cut from several parchment manuscripts reinforce the gatherings. According to an ownership note (p. 9), the work belonged to the monastery of Saint Gall very early on, which is later confirmed by the stamp of the library of the Prince-abbot Diethelm Blarer between 1553 and 1564 (p. 154). The wooden binding covered in red leather dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. (rou)

The manuscript protected in a limp binding contains as many blank pages (pp. 167-326) as texts. Copied by several hands between the fourteenth and the fifteenth century, these texts are extremely varied. The codex begins with prayers to the Virgin and to Christ (pp. 2-26), followed by excerpts from the (pseudo-)Bernard of Clairvaux (pp. 27-36), a collection of fragments of patristic texts on the virtues of the mass (pp. 37-44), the Meditatio super missam by Iohannes de Brunswig (pp. 133-164), as well as a series of sermons attributed to Augustine, such as the Sermo ad Heremitas (pp. 44-60), De miseria mundi (pp. 60-65), De duodecim gradibus abusionum (pp. 119-122), etc. Inserted among these texts appears the De proprietatibus (or the Epistola Ameti), a rare translation from the Arabic of the Kitāb al-khawāss by Ahmad ibn Ibrâhîm ibn al-Jazzâr of Qayrawân († 1009). This work is a treatise on organic magic dealing with the properties of animals, plants, and minerals (pp. 97-106). (rou)

This paper manuscript contains sermons ordered according to the liturgical year. The gatherings are numbered, end with catchwords, and are reinforced with parchment guards. The first part, which is missing the beginning, contains sermons compiled by a certain brother Antonius of the Dominican order, without specifying the place of origin (p. 332). Bearing the stamp of the library of the Prince-abbot Diethelm Blarer, between 1553 and 1564 (p. 295), a gathering without text, except for three pages (pp. 296-298), was inserted in this series of sermons. The second part was also copied by a Dominican, a member of the Zürich convent, as the partially erased explicit states (p. 442: Explicit liber in nomine domini amen. Hec frater Iohannes … ordinis praedictorum domus Thuricensis). On the spine of the binding, in addition to the label with the title and the current shelfmark, there can be found an old label with the shelfmark “N“ that is used in the 1461 catalogue of the Abbey Library of Saint Gall. (rou)

This collection of sermons from Pentecost to Advent is preceded by a lengthy table of contents (pp. 3-18). Before the index, several lines of text – identical to those in Cod. Sang. 993, p. 387 – state that a part of the homiletic material comes from Jacobus de Voragine (p. 3). The sermons are copied in a single column, introduced by titles enhanced in red and written in larger characters than the rest of the text. The scriptural references are located in the side margins. The manuscript has a limp binding; the gatherings have been sewn directly into the spine of the leather cover, which is reinforced by two pieces of leather. (rou)

This paper manuscript has over ten different texts, written in Latin and German. In addition to sermons (pp. 10-22; 47-57), there are texts on the mass (pp. 1-10; 95-134; 135-246; 247-272), on the interpretation of dreams (pp. 41-42; 76-85), and even a calendar of fish (pp. 74-75). With numerous blank pages in between, these texts have been copied by various hands, including that of Johannes Schenklin, who left an explicit with the date of 1416 (p. 134). The stamp of the library of Prince-abbot Diethelm Blarer, dating from between 1553 and 1564, is applied twice in the manuscript (p. 184, 246). (rou)

The explicit and the title written on the spine of this manuscript read: Postilla Bernensis super evangelia. As Scherrer had already noted, “Parmensis” should be read. Indeed, the author of the sermons copied in this manuscript is the Dominican Fra Antonio Azaro Parmensis. These sermons are grouped into two parts: the Postillae super evangelia de tempore (pp. 15-98) and the Sermones quadragesimales (pp. 99-355). This manuscript bears the stamp of the library of Prince-abbot Diethelm Blarer between 1553 and 1564 (p. 356). The binding covered in red leather dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. (rou)

The paper manuscript contains sermons for the temporal cycle by Anthony of Parma. Copied in two columns by two different hands (pp. 1-140; pp. 141-232), the codex is incomplete, with the text breaking off at p. 232b in the middle of a Gospel citation (Mt 7,3; Lc 6,41). The initials of the sermons have not been filled in, except for between pages 143 and 199. German-language notes have been added to the bottom margin of the first pages of the codex. The manuscript finishes with a large number of pages that were left blank (pp. 233-300), one of which (p. 234) has the library stamp of Abbot-Prince Diethelm Blarer, from between 1553 and 1564. The quires are reinforced by parchment strips from a Bible dating to the first half of the fourteenth century. (rou)

This manuscript, which originated probably in 1484 in the Convent of the Dominican Sisters of St. Katharina in St. Gall, constitutes the first (remaining) half-volume of a collection which, as indicated in the table of contents, originally comprised 151 sermons, organized according to the church year, and in all likelihood meant to be read daily at mealtime. Among others, it contains sermons by Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, Nikolaus von Straßburg, Rudolf Goltschlacher, Meister Wilhelm, Felix Fabri (?), Jordan von Quedlinburg and several from the corpus of the „St. Georgener“ and „Engelberger Predigten“. Remarkably, regarding the inventory of “Engelberger Predigten”, Cod. Sang. 1066 is exactly complementary to Cod. Sang. 1919 and Wil M 42, which also originated in the Convent of the Dominican sisters of St. Katharina in St. Gall. Cod. Sang. 1919 and Wil M 42 are directly or indirectly based on the same model *C to which also cod. Sang. 1004 and Wil M 47, created 50 years ealier in the St. Gall Benedictine Monastery, owe their selection of Engelberger Predigten; in contrast, Cod. Sang. 1066 is based on a manuscript from text group *Y3, close also to Cod. 752(746) from the library of the Benedictine Monastery of Einsiedeln. (nem)

This folio-volume contains an extensive sermon cycle, introduced by a sermon presumably by Rulmann Merswin (ff. 1ra–5vb: Leben Jesu / Von der geistlichen Spur), which here is ascribed to Tauler (as in Cod. Sang. 1015). The sermons that follow (ff. 5vb–235ra) are actually by Tauler. On ff. 85va–93va, under the rubric Von der drivaltikait, is the pseudo-Eckhartian composite treatise Von dem anefluzze des vaters; on ff. 235ra–241va are four letters of Henry Suso (Letters 3, 4, 6 and 7 of the Little Book of Letters), followed by another sermon. The manuscript, arranged in two columns, is carefully written, corrected in many places, and rubricated throughout. Each sermon is introduced by an ornate initial, usually five lines high, with very simple red and blue pen flourishes; a few initials are someone larger and more elaborately presented (e.g., f. 190vb). Well preserved late-fifteenth-century leather binding with decorative lines, five bosses on each side (only one on the back is missing) and two clasps. Two owner’s marks on the front pastedown attest to the ownership of the book by the sisters of St. Leonhard cloister, and later by those of St. Georgen in St. Gall. (mat)

The paper manuscript contains several codicological units (pp. 1–28, almost entirely empty; pp. 29-146; p. 149 [sic]-176, empty; pp. 207 [sic]-222; pp. 225 [sic]-244; pp. 245-268, pp. 269-278, empty). A series of sermons (pp. 29-145), following the liturgical order and missing the beginning, is copied in two columns. Each sermon is numbered in the margin, and the Sunday for which it is prepared is often written on the recto of the folio (e.g., p. 33: do[mini]ca quinta). A possessor’s note (p. 146) states that this part of the codex belonged to Johannes Bischoff, monk of Saint Gall (ca. 1460-1495), or to one of two other persons with the same name who are attested around the monastery at the time. This volume also contains the Summarium biblicum, a text in verse composed of keywords put together without syntactic order, which summarize entire chapters of the Bible, accompanied by interlinear glosses (pp. 207-222). There follows the Speculum sacerdotum (pp. 245-258) by the Augustinian Hermit Hermann de Schildesche (1290-1357). Finally, the codex ends with an excerpt from John of Freiburg’s Confessionale sive tractatus de instructione confessorum (pp. 258-262). The half-leather binding dates from the fifteenth century and the inside board have the offset of fragments that have been detached. (rou)

The paper manuscript is a collection of sermons and treatises that were copied at different times and brought together for binding. The binding dates from the last quarter of the fifteenth century, as suggested by the blind-stamping, such as the agnus dei and the basilisk, that appears in bindings produced in Augsburg. The copy of the first large collection of sermons in the manuscript, with a colophon dated 26 august 1389 (p. 292a) is known as the Sermones socci, which are traditionally ascribed to the Cistercian Konrad von Brundelsheim. Copied in two columns and introduced with a simple red initial, the sermons follow the order of the saints (pp. 39a-292a). The possessor, “Ioh[hannes] Sunder, alias Sunher de Laugingen, plebanus in Wangen”, put his name at the top of this section. The follow Peregrinus de Oppeln’s Sermones de sanctis (pp. 302-388), copied in a single column by another scribe who produced a few letters with cadels (pp. 364-369). The rest of the manuscript presents a whole series of sermons, interrupted by blank pages, and finishes with three treatises: Rudolphus Medicus, De benedictione aurae (pp. 505-506), Thomas Ebendorfer, Tractatus de superstitionibus quibusdam circa eucharistiae sacramentum (pp. 507-518), and an anonymous treatise: “Incipit tractatus contra illorum oppinionem qui terrere nituntur predicatores ewangelicos, dicentes non esse licitum predicare ewangelium Sarracenis propter nigredines [sic] mortis periculum” (pp. 519-531). (rou)

This paper manuscript, dated 1389 (p. 455), contains a series of sermons on the apostles, martyrs, confessors, and virgins (pp. 3-275), then on the Virgin Mary (pp. 290-353). Copied evenly in a single column, the sermons begin with a simple red-painted initial and a rubric. This first part has a previous foliation in black ink in the center of the upper margin (1-177). The next part also begins with an older foliation (1-30) that breaks off before the end. Copied by a hand different from that of the preceding section, and without initials or rubrics, this section has sermons de sanctis (pp. 358-455). The limp binding in brown leather over parchment dates from the fourteenth or fifteenth century. (rou)

This manuscript predominantly contains sermons. It begins (pp. 1–279) with the Speculum ecclesiae by Honorius Augustodunensis (around 1080 – 1150/1151). This is followed by 20 verses each on virtues and vices in Leonine hexameter (pp. 279–281), each followed by a brief explanation in prose. On the otherwise blank p. 282, there is a pen and ink drawing of the Apostle Paul. Following on pp. 283–411, there are the Sermones by Mauritius de Sulliaco (Maurice de Sully, around 1120 – 1196), with a list of chapters and a prologue on p. 283. On pp. 411-414, there is a commentary on the Apostles' Creed (Inc. Quo nomine vocatur hec doctrina apostolica symbolum, Expl. latine dicitur vere fideliter fiat). The very short text on p. 415 deals with Communion for the excommunicated (Inc. Communicans excommunicato, Expl. ad correctionem communicabis excommunicato). (sno)

A single scribe copied this fourteenth-century paper manuscript in two columns. Rubrics and red initials introduce the various texts, most of which are sermons de sanctis and de tempore, whose topics are in part listed on the front flyleaf (f. Ar). The manuscript also includes some treatises, such as an excerpt from the Stella clericorum (ff. 15rb-18rb), another on the mass (ff. 18r-20rb), with an incipit ascribing it to Thomas Aquinas, but which has since been attributed to the Premonstratensian Richardus de Wedinghausen. A possessor’s note from the fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century states that, in case the manuscript is borrowed, it should be returned to the monastery of Saint Gall: Iste liber est monasterii Sancti Galli et eodem monasterio restituendus (f. Ar). (rou)

St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch's (1462-1491) book of heraldry, containing 1,626 coats of arms of prominent people from the laity and the clergy, mostly from the southern region of Germany. This heraldic book was probably prepared in the Heidelberg workshop of Hans Ingeram for an unknown customer from the area between the Neckar River and the Upper Rhine. In the 1480s St. Gall Abbot Ulrich Rösch purchased the volume and had numerous coats of arms from Swiss and German border areas added in the back pages; these were drawn by Winterthur artist Hans Haggenberg. One of the most important heraldic record books of the 15th century. (smu)