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Sub-project: The Virtual Abbey Library of Saint Gall

January 2008 - December 2009

Status: Completed

Financed by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (http://www.mellon.org/)

Description: As of the end of 2009, over 300 manuscripts written before the year 1000 and held by the Abbey Library of St. Gall had been made available on e-codices. The web application had also been further developed using the most up to date informatics tools, allowing users to gain access to the website database faster and more easily. Financial support for this sub-project was provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York).

All Libraries and Collections

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 239
Parchment · 258 pp. · 29.8-30 x 20.2-20.4 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus in Pentateuchum. Lib. Judicum, Ruth, Regum I-IV.

A copy of the Commentaries of Isidore of Seville on various books of the Old Testament (Quaestiones in Vetus Testamentum), produced during the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 240
Parchment · 308 pp. · 30.7-31 x 20.5-20.8 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Isidorus. Proœmia in V. et N. T., de vita et obitu sanctorum.

A copy of a collection of texts by Isidore of Seville (d. 636), including De natura rerum, produced in the women's cloister of Chelles on the Marne east of Paris in, or shortly after 800. The copy of the work De natura rerum in this manuscript includes a very simple world map (Mappa mundi) as well as a so-called “Knopfkarte” (a chart composed of multiple connected circles). (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 241
Parchment · 180 pp. · 27.2-27.5 x 19.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Paterius, liber testimoniorum. Epistolæ S. Hieronymi et Damasi. Augustini Homiliæ in Ev. S. Iohannis.

A patristic manuscript of unknown provenance from the first half of the 9th century. It contains the Liber Testimoniorum by Paterius, letters exchanged between Jerome and Damasus, selections from the homilies of Augustine on the Gospel of John, the Athanasian Creed with exegesis, and an exegesis of the Our Father. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 243
Parchment · 254 pp. · 28.5 x 21 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Collectio canonum hibernensis

Allemanian copy of the Collectio Canonum Hibernesis from the first half of the 9th century. The work includes Irish canonical law texts, which have been brought together in this collection of canon laws with others from African, Gallic, and Greek synodical and conciliar records as well as with papal decrees from the period around 700. At the end is a scribal dictum by Eadberct. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 247
Parchment · 302 pp. · 29.5-30 x 23.5-24 cm · St. Gall · around 860
Ecclesiastical History of the English-Speaking People

A copy of the most important source for the history of the English people, the Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, produced in about 860 in the abbey of St. Gall, still it its original Carolingian binding. A short biographical sketch about Bede and a list of his works are appended. (smu)

Online Since: 12/23/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 248
Parchment · 226 pp. · 28.8-29.3 x 20.8-21.8 cm · Laon in northern France · middle of the 9th century (pp. 3–82) / 9th century (?) (pp. 83-98) / 9th or 11th century (pp. 99-148) / 9th century or 11th-12th centuries (pp. 149-212)
Bede, De natura rerum, De temporibus, and De temporum ratione Pseudo-Bede, Compotum sic Bedae presbiteri librorum quattuor Boethius, De arithmetica libri duo

Natural history (scientific) manuscript compilation, written by various scribes, mostly around the year 850, in the area of Laon in northern France. The codex contains, among other items, Boetheus's De arithmetica, a computational treatise incorrectly attributed to the English scholar the Venerable Bede († 735), and De temporum ratione as well as selections from De natura rerum and De temporibus, all true works of the Venerable Bede. (smu)

Online Since: 12/09/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 249
Parchment · 92 pp. · 26.3 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda de orthographia; Caper de orthographia; Agroetius de orthographia; et alia orthographica.

A copy of several tracts on orthography, written in about 800 at the Abbey of St. Gall. This manuscript contains, among other items, a copy of the tract De orthographia by Alcuin of York, based on the work of the same name by the Venerable Bede, as well as orthographical tracts by the Gallic bishop Agroetius (5th century) and the Roman grammarian Flavius Caper (2nd century). (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 251
Parchment · 186 pp. · 36.5 x 26 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede

Copies of assorted works of natural history by the Venerable Bede (De natura rerum; De temporum ratione; the closing portion of De temporibus), produced as early as the 9th century in the Cloister of St. Gall. In addition, this codex contains, among other items, computistic and calendar texts and tables, and at the end, schematic diagrams of the organization of the scientific disciplines as well as quill tests. (smu)

Online Since: 12/23/2008

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 252
Parchment · 206 pp. · 32.2-32.5 x 20.6-21.2 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in VII epistolas canonicas

This copy of the commentary of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the seven Canonical Letters is significant to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 253
Parchment · 333 pp. · 26.4-26.6 x 17.5-18 cm · St. Gall · beginning of the 9th century
Beda in Tobiam, in Esram et Nehemiam

A copy of the commentaries of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Old Testament books of Tobias, Ezra and Nehmiah, produced in the first half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 255
Parchment · 424 pp. · 24 x 17.5 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Bedæ: Hexaemeron libri II. Isidorus contra Iudæos libri II ad sororem Florentiam; Libellus S. Hieronymi de mansionibus filiorum Israel; Maccabæorum libri II.

A manuscript compilation of the shorter version of the Book of Genesis by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), together with the work Contra Iudaeos by Isidore of Seville, the letter De mansionibus filiorum Israhel (Epistula 78) by the church father Jerome, and a copy of the first and second Old Testament books of Maccabees, produced in the 9th century, probably in the Abbey of St. Gall. A noteworthy initial capital appears on page 232. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 256
Parchment · 342 pp. · 28.8 x 21.8-22 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Beda in Marcum evangelistam

A copy of the commentary on the Gospel of Mark by the Venerable Bede (d. 735), produced in the Abbey of St. Gall in the 9th century. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 257
Parchment · 227 pp. · 30.5-31 x 20.5 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Beda in Marcum evangelistam

This copy of the commentary of the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Gospel of Mark is significant to textual history; it was produced during the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 258
Parchment · 205 pp. · 23.8-24 x 15.9-16.7 cm · possibly produced in the vicinity of Reims · middle of the 9th century
Commentary on the Gospel of John by Alcuin of York

The commentary on the Gospel of John by Alcuin of York (k. 804), possibly produced in the vicinity of Reims during the mid-ninth century. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 259
Parchment · II + 303 pp. · 27 x 17-17.5 cm · St. Gall (?) · 8th-9th century
Beda in Actus Apostolorum, in Apocalypsin

This copy of the commentary on the Apocalypse and the Acts of the Apostles by the Venerable Bede (d. 735) is significant to textual history. It was produced in the Abbey of St. Gall in about 800. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 260
Parchment · 392 pp. · 23.8-23.9 x 17.1-17.6 cm · St. Gall · second half of the 9th century
Bede, Commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse

This manuscript contains copies of the commentaries on the Acts of the Apostles and the Apocalypse by the church father the Venerable Bede (d. 735), with pen tests, a note identifying the scribes (Wichram und Hartpert), and numerous glosses (most in the hand of the monk Ekkehart IV.). This copy was produced in the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall and includes a scribe's verse by the monk Wichram at the end of the manuscript. (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 261
Parchment · 276 pp. · 23.3-23.4 x 15.4-15.7 cm · St. Gall · 9th century
Beda in epistolas canonicas. Hieronymi epistolæ. Excerpta.

The oldest surviving manuscript of an anonymous commentary on the Psalms, Eglogae tractatorum in psalterium, of Irish provenance, written in a Carolingian influenced Allemannic minuscule script in about 820 in the Abbey of St. Gall. This codex also contains a copy of the commentary by the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Canonical Letters and copies of two letters by the church father Jerome (347-420). (smu)

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 262
Parchment · 329 pp. · 15.5-15.6 x 12.5-12.6 cm · St. Gall · around 900
Beda in epistolas canonicas

A copy of the commentary by the Venerable Bede (d. 735) on the Canonical Letters, produced in about 900 at the Abbey of St. Gall. (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 263
Parchment · II + 220 + II pp. · 18 x 14.5 cm · St. Gall · first half of the 9th century
Bede, De miraculis S. Cuthberti; Aldhelm, De laudibus virginum, De octo principalibus vitiis; Theodulf von Orleans, Letters to Modoin and Aigulf; Modoin, Letter to Theodulf of Orleans

A collection of assorted poetical works from the 8th and the early 9th centuries produced in the first half of the 9th century at the Abbey of St. Gall. This volume contains the Carmen de miraculis Sancti Cuthberti by the Venerable Bede ( d. 735), the works De laude virginum und De octo principalibus vitiis by Aldhelm of Malmesbury (d. 709), and letters in verse form exchanged between Bishop Theodulf of Orleans (d. 821) and Bishop Modoin of Autun (d. ca. 840/43). (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 264
Parchment · 238 pp. · 18.5-18.7 x 12.9-13 cm · St. Gall · last third of the 9th century
Prognostica Juliani

This copy of the Prognosticum futuri saeculi by Julian of Toledo is significant to textual history, as it is one of the first comprehensive and systematically constructed eschatologies in Christian literature. It was produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the last third of the 9th century. Includes glosses, among them some by the hand of Ehhekart IV., and at the end of the manuscript a short note about the works of the St. Gall monk Ekkehart IV. (d. 1060; by Ildenfons von Arx entitled Crisis Ekkehardi IV.) (smu)

Online Since: 07/31/2009

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