Morel, Gallus (1803-1872)
A copy of the four Gospels with commentaries by Jerome, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950).
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- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Annotator) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Annotator) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
Commentary on the first 70 Psalms by Adelpertus and, at the end, a selection of proverbs by church fathers, written in a pre-Carolingian minuscule at the end of the 9th century, probaby in Northern Italy. The two missing pages at the end are part of the fragment collection Einsiedeln, Abbey Library (Stiftsbibliothek), 370, IV, Bl. 18-19.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
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- Anonymus (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The manuscript consists of two parts and contains various ascetic texts. The first part (1-24) was written by various unskilled hands in a Rhaetian-influenced minuscule which can be dated to the 8th/9th century and localized in a scriptorium in northern Italy or in Switzerland. The second part (25-140) is dated to the second third of the 9th century.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Basilius, Caesariensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Eligius, Noviomensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This volume contains a number of tracts by anonymous authors as well as extracts from works of textual criticism treating individual books of the Old and New Testaments. Specifically worth naming are: Guilelmus Brito (died ca. 1275), Johannes de Colonia (13th century) and Guilelmus de Mara Lamara (1230-ca. 1290). The content is of Franciscan authorship, suggesting that the manuscript was produced in a Minorite cloister.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Guilelmus, Brito Exegeta (Author) | Guilelmus, de Lamara (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript written in the 9th, 10th and 14th centuries, probably in Einsiedeln or southwestern Germany. It contains, among other things, glosses on the Gospels, the Annales Heremi from the birth of Christ to the year 940, and various astronomical treatises, including the Sphaera by John of Sacrobosco and the Computus by Helpericus of Auxerre.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Helpericus, Altissiodorensis (Author) | Johannes, de Sacrobosco (Author) | Maǧrīṭī, Abu-'l-Qāsim Maslama Ibn-Aḥmad al- (Author) | Māšā'allāh, Ibn-Aṯarī (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Porphyrius (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript consisting of sections from three datable periods, the first from the 10th century, the other two from the 12th century. The first part (1-222) contains glosses on Priscian, the second (223-310) a collection of medical tracts assembled by Constantinus Africanus, the third part (311-357) contains the Liber Tegni by Galen (129/131-199/201).
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- Anonymus (Author) | Constantinus, Africanus (Author) | Galenus (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Ḥunain, Ibn-Isḥāq (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Theophilus, Protospatharius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The content consists mostly of an anonymous commentary on the Gospel of Matthew attributed to Geoffrey Babion, together with other short texts, not all of which have been identified. The manuscript probably originated in Einsiedeln, certainly it has been there since the 14th century as attested by various annotations and marks by Heinrich von Ligerz.
Online Since: 09/23/2014
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- Cyprianus, Thascius Caecilius (Author) | Galfredus, Babio (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Lectionary, produced in the Abbey of St. Gall during the 10th century (before 950). It may have been presented by St. Gall to Einsiedeln on the occasion of the consecration of the church at Einsiedeln in 948, together with Codex 17.
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- Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
Composite manuscript consisting of two parts, which were joined in the 14th century at the latest, as confirmed by the dating of the binding. The first part (1-85) contains Alcuin's commentary on Genesis and is dated to the second third of the 9th century; some researchers localize this manuscript in western Germany, others in Raetia. The second part (87-191)contains the Partitiones by the grammarian Priscian and was written in the second half of the 10th century in Einsiedeln. A letter, sent by Heinrich II. von Güttingen, Abbot of Einsiedeln (1280 to 1299), to the vice-chaplain of the parish church of St. Peter and Paul on the island Ufenau, is copied onto the last page.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Heinrich II., von Güttingen (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex can be dated to the 10th century; it contains the Musica enchiriadis (2-27), a 9th century music theory treatise which endeavors to develop a series of rules for polyphonic composition, as well as annotations to the commentary Scolica enchiriadis (27-45, 66-102). Dasian notation is used in order to graphically illustrate the music. For a long time, this treatise was attributed to the monk Hucbald, but today it is considered the work of an anonymous author.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Anonymus (Author) | Hucbaldus, de Sancto Amando (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Cod. 83 is a complete breviary consisting of the following parts: calendar, antiphonary with neume notation, lectionary with biblical readings, homilary containing interpretations by the Church Fathers, hymnal, canticles from the Old and New Testaments, psalter, brief readings, prayers, preces and benedictions. Of special note is the oldest version of the Meinrad Office known to us, which is still used today. The melodies used in the antiphonary belong to the Alemanic choral dialect, still sung in the same form in Einsiedeln in the liturgy of the hours.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Ligerz, Heinrich von (Annotator) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 11th century contains a copy of De ecclesiasticis officiis Lib. I et II by Amalarius (Metensis), from which some chapters are missing. The continuation, with the missing text, is found in Cod. 110, which was also produced in St. Gall.
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- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
A manuscript of collected works, including the Ordines Romani and the works of Amalarius (Metensis). The content of this codex is nearly identical to that of Abbey Library of St. Gall Cod. Sang. 446, indicating that this copy, made in the second half of the 11th century, is of St. Gallen origin.
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains a martyrology (pp. 1-28), the Rule of Saint Benedict (pp. 28-83) and a homiliary (pp. 84-126). It was written by two scribes in a late Carolingian minuscule and contains two initials decorated with plant branches drawn in ink. In the 13th century, a document about the confraternity of Einsiedeln Abbey and St. Blaise Abbey in the Black Forest was added to a blank area at the end of the text of the Rule of Saint Benedict (p. 83).
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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- Benedictus, de Nursia (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains Jerome's commentary on Matthew; it was written in Carolingian minuscule by the scribe Subo, who signed at the end of the text (p. 267) as well as on the last page (p. 268), which today, as the inside back page, is glued to the cover. The style of the initials indicates the Rhaetian area, whereas the scribe Subo is attested at Disentis Abbey. The manuscript has been in Einsiedeln since at least the 17th century, as shown by an ex libris on page 1.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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- Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript contains among others the De viris illustribus by Jerome and the De viris illustribus by Gennadius, the Deflorata by Isidore of Seville and, at the very end, the Tractatus de VII sacramentis, which was only added in the 12th/13th century. The 14th century binding is probably from Einsiedeln; certainly the manuscript was in the monastery library in the 17th century, as attested by the ex libris on p. 1.
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- Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This 10th century manuscript of Reichenau origin contains epigrams by Prosper of Aquitaine as well as the "De consolatione philosophiae" by Boethius.
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains Gregory the Great's Moralia in Job. It is assumed the manuscript originated in Disentis, since its Carolingian minuscule is very similar to that of manuscript 126, written by the scribe Subo of Disentis. Therefore this manuscript, too, should be dated to the first third of the 9th century. The manuscript has been held at Einsiedeln since the 17th century, as attested by an ex libris on p. 3.
Online Since: 04/09/2014
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- Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the Expositio Evangelii secundum Lucam of Ambrosius of Milan. It was produced in Engelberg as a commission for Abbot Frowin (1143-1178), a fact indicated by the dedicatory verse on 1. It also contains three illuminated initials with the motive of tendrils generally used during Frowin's tenure.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
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- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Ambrosius, Mediolanensis (Author) | Engelberger Meister (Illuminator) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript contains works by Isidore, Hucbaldus and Bernoldus as well as the Gospel of Nicodeum, copied at various times in Italy and Einsiedeln.
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- Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Author) | Hucbaldus, de Sancto Amando (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This two-part composite manuscript contains various grammatical texts. Probably the two parts were combined when the manuscript was rebound in the 14th century; since then, it has been in the Abbey Library of Einsiedeln. The first part (2-110) was probaby copied in Reichenau in the 3rd third of the 9th century. The second part (111-215) is older and was perhaps written in Reims in the 8th/9th century. Certain scholars (Bruckner) suggest that the script of the second part may be Raetian.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Annotator) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
A manuscript collection containing letters of Pope Gregory the Great as well as commentaries on Boethius. The text contains both Latin glosses and numerous Old High German glosses in cryptographic script. The manuscript was written during the second half of the 10th century in Einsiedeln.
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the Tractatus super epistolam ad Titum, Expositio in epistulam Pauli ad Philemonem and Expositio in epistulam ad Hebraeos by Alcuin. It was probably produced at the time of Reginbert in the scriptorium at Reichenau.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
A 12th century manuscript (1170-1190), probably copied in Switzerland (Einsiedeln?) or in Austria. It contains the introduction In prima parte agitur (fol. 1r-7ra) and the Decretum by Gratian [Σ-group, cf. C. Wei, A Discussion and List of Manuscripts Belonging to the Σ-group (S-group)] (fol. 7ra-217va); an additio (from fol. 167vb to C.29: Adrianus papa Eberhardo Salzeburgensi archiepiscopo. 'Dignum est et a rationis... [JL 10445: 1154-59]); various excerpts of glosses (scraped on fol. 21a) and excerpta of the Summa by Rufinus (cf. R. Weigand, Die Glossen zum Dekret Gratians. Studien zu den frühen Glossen und Glossenkompositionen, Roma 1991, pp. 737-740); fragments of the Glossa Ordinaria by Bartholomaeus Brixiensis (France, middle of the 13th century) were copied onto the erasures on fol. 6va-9va.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Bartholomaeus, Brixiensis (Author) | Gratianus, de Clusio (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This is an especially lovely exemplar, written in France (Paris?) or Flanders, of The Mirror of Human Salvation, or Speculum humanae salvationis. The work itself exists in over 200 manuscript copies and numerous print editions. The Mirror of Human Salvation is divided into the prefiguring of salvation (Old Testament), the story of salvation as told in the New Testament (from the Annunciation to the Judgement Day), the 7 Stations of the Passion, the 7 Sorrows and the 7 Joys of Mary. At this time, four leaves and the opening portion are missing.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Petrus, Comestor (Author) | Valerius Maximus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript fromt the 9th/10th century contains the Vita Antigoni, fragments of a so-called Collatio Alexandrini et Dindimi, a falsified letter from Seneca to the apostle Paul and Augustine's Enchiridion: De fide spe et caritate. A copy of the Concordat of Worms from 1122 was added later. Transcription took place in Einsiedeln and the southern German region, possibly in St. Gall.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This composite manuscript was produced during the 10th/11th and the 13th/14th centuries in Einsiedeln and St. Gall. It contains various selections intended for religious education, such as the lives of saints Faustinus, Jovita and Gangolf, the Benedictine Rule, sermons, a liturgical tract and De ratione temporum.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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- Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Macrobius, Ambrosius Theodosius (Author) | Martianus, Capella (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
The devotional book of Abbot Ulrich Rosch of St. Gall contains various prayers, timetables and calendars, is decorated with elaborate initials and was written in the year 1472.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Rösch, Simon (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Standard description
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Rösch, Simon (Scribe) | Ulrich VIII., Sankt Gallen, Abt (Patron) Found in: Additional description
Boethius is the author of the two treatises preserved in this 10th century manuscript: De geometria (1-22) and De musica (23-145). The two texts are surrounded by numerous sketches and marginal as well as interlinear glosses.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
A composite manuscript composed of two volumes of collected works, written during the 9th and 10th centuries in eastern France or southwest Germany. It includes works by Wandelbertus, Boethius, Ausonius, Gregory, Arator, Prosper, Prudentius, Aldhelmus and Boniface.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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- Aldhelmus, Schireburnensis (Author) | Arator, Diaconus (Author) | Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Bonifatius, Sanctus (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Lupus, Ferrariensis (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Wandalbertus, Prumiensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
"De consolatione philosophiae" by Boethius and the life of St. Wolfgang by Otloh of St. Emmeram make up this two-part codex. One part was written in Einsiedeln, the second may have been written in Strassburg.
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Otloh, de Sancto Emmeramo (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex is a particularly important manuscript of collected texts. Especially important are the Inscriptiones Urbis Romae and the Itinerarium Urbis Romae. The Ordo Romanus XXIII for use on Good Friday, transmitted only in this manuscript, is also notable. Additional contents of this codex include a selection from the Notae of Marcus Valerius Probus, the Gesta Salvatoris (Evangelium Nicodemi), Varia Poemata and a text entitled De inventione s. Crucis. There is no information about how the manuscript traveled to Pfäfers and then on to Einsiedeln (most likely during the 14th century).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Ausonius, Decimus Magnus (Author) | Cummianus, Longus (Author) | Gargilius Martialis, Quintus (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Nicodemus (Author) | Probus, Marcus Valerius (Author) | Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript, written in Rhaetian minuscule, contains selected chapters of the ecclesiastical history of Eusebius of Caesarea.
Online Since: 04/23/2013
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- Eusebius, Caesariensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Boethius (c. 476-c. 525), one of the earliest scholars of late antiquity and most influential of thinkers, in logic as well as in philosphy and theology, is the author of the works reproduced in this codex, De arithmetica et geometria and De musica. Both works were recognized during the middle ages as foundation works of the quadrivium. The manuscript was produced in Einsiedeln in the 10th century.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
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- Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
Contains works of Isidore of Seville: Libri originum (I-III e V-XX), De natura rerum, and letters exchanged between Isidore and Braulio of Zaragoza. The manuscript was assembled from an assortment of fragments that had been removed in the 19th century from law volumes held by the library of the chancery of St. Gerold in Vorarlberg. This volume was assembled at the request of Abbot Frowin of Engelberg (1143-1178), as indicated by dedicatory verses on f. 1r.
Online Since: 12/19/2011
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- Braulio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Braulio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Braulio, Caesaraugustanus (Author) | Frowinus, de Monte Angelorum (Patron) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
The manuscript is a collection containing fragments of the comedies of Terence, from two lost manuscripts of the 10th century (ff. 3r-26v and ff. 28r-55v, respectively ε and η in editions), plus some fragments from a third manuscript (ff. 56r-57v), including portions of Terence's Phormio and a hymn to St. Nicholas. The size, legibility and state of preservation vary in different fragments. Some missing leaves from the second manuscript (η) are preserved in the collection of fragments St. Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 1394 (pp. 115-120).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
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- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Bugmann, Kuno (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Terentius Afer, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
The fragments assembled in this collection were removed from their previous volumes by P. Gall Morel in 1858 and bound together into this volume in 1860. They consist of fragments from sequences (two volumes), hymn melodies (such as those still sung to this day in Einsiedeln), three Gloria melodies (the third of which is attributed to Pope Leo IX), three liturgical plays as well as the Novem modi by Hermannus. This manuscript is important to music history, as it is the first instance in Einsiedeln where the neumes are set upon four (incised) staff lines; the form used here represents the Alemannic choral dialect.
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- Hermannus, Augiensis (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
German Psalter. The psalms are preceded by rubrics that indicate the occasion when the psalm should be recited. The manuscript also contains several canticles, the Te deum and the Litanies of the Saints. The names in the litanies indicate a Benedictine origin. The manuscript was written in 1421 by Othmar Ortwin. In 1839 it was purchased by the Einsiedeln monk and librarian P. Gallus Morell from the Cistercian Wurmsbach Abbey on Lake Zürich.
Online Since: 03/17/2016
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- Bugmann, Kuno (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript containing the Legenda aurea by Jacobus de Voragine is the second-oldest manuscript copy of this work, written within the lifetime of the author; it is dated 1288. The codex also contains the first known transmission of the so-called Provincia or Purgatory addendum. The proposal by A. Bruckner that the Abbey of Rheinau is the location of origin is not supported by any indications in the codex itself. It was most likely written in the southern German region (within the community of Augustinian hermits).
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
This manuscript was produced in the Convent of Dominican Sisters of St. Verena in Zurich in 1449. In addition to the life of Benedict following Gregory's Dialogi, in a unique translation that seems to exist only in this codex (according to Werner Williams-Krapp), the manuscript contains translations of three more legends of 13th century Dominican saints. These as well are attested only in this codex, have practically never been studied, and have not even been edited. First there is one of three versions of the translation of the Vita S. Dominici by Dietrich of Apolda; then there is the translation of Thomas Agno de Lentino's Legenda maior about the Inquisitor Peter of Milan (also know as Peter Martyr or Peter of Verona), who was killed in 1252; attached to this is the bull of his canonization issued by Pope Innocent IV in 1253. It is noteworthy that the translation of the bull also contains a legend of Peter which, according to Regina D. Schiewer, is independent of the one by Thomas Agno. If the translations of these legends into Alemannic that are contained in Cod. 671 were in fact created around 1300, as assumed by Schwierer, then the (abbreviated?) version of the translation of the life of Dominic contained in Cod. 671 would constitute the earliest proof of the presence of the revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg in Southwestern Germany, as the final chapter of the fifth book of the life of Dominic (cf. fol. 80v-82r) is based on excerpts from the Latin translation of Das Fließende Licht der Gottheit.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Theodoricus, de Apolda (Author) | Thomas, Agnus (Author) Found in: Standard description
This very small manuscript contains treatises on music by various Italian and French authors, among them Marchettus of Padua (f. 1-44), Johannes de Muris (f. 83-104v), and Prosdocimus of Beldomandi (f. 51-55, 75-82). It was written in Northern Italy at the beginning of the 15th century.
Online Since: 12/13/2013
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- Anonymus (Author) | Johannes, de Garlandia (Author) | Johannes, de Muris (Author) | Marchettus, de Padua (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Philippe, de Vitry (Author) | Prosdocimus, de Beldemandis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Christus und die Minnende Seele ("Christ and the Courting (or wooing) Soul"); Henry Suso, life and works. This manuscript was a gift from a married couple, Ehlinger-von Kappel (Constance) to the Dominican convent of St. Peter in Constance, and from there it probably came to Einsiedeln via the Rheinau Abbey after its dissolution.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Seuse, Heinrich (Author) Found in: Standard description
This codex contains the first five books of the Liber specialis gratiae by Mechthild von Hackeborn; books 6 and 7 are missing. On p. 3 there is also a fragment of the Epistola de Ihesu Christo by Ps.-Lentulus Romanus de Judea. The notes on p. 224, which name Johannes Tauler and Konrad (in the codex: Johannes) of Prussia as previous owners, suggest an origin in a Dominican environment. In the 15th century, this manuscript belonged to Ulrich Varnbüler (brother of Angela Varnbüler, who was prioress of the Dominican Convent St. Katharina in St. Gall from 1476-1509; mayor/imperial vogt of St. Gall 1481-1490).
Online Since: 06/23/2016
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Conradus, de Prussia (Former possessor) | Lentulus (Author) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Scherrer, Gustav (Librarian) | Tauler, Johannes (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Additional description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Conradus, de Prussia (Former possessor) | Lentulus (Author) | Mechthild, von Hackeborn (Author) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Scherrer, Gustav (Librarian) | Tauler, Johannes (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This codex contains the best-known work by the Roman poet Publius Papinius Statius, his epic poem about the war of the Seven Against Thebes (Thebais), along with metrical argumenta on lib. II–IV. Two quires containing lib. IV, V. 578 – lib. VII, V. 30 (between pp. 75 and 76) are missing, as well as a bifolium with lib. IX, 671–751 and lib. X, 5–84 (between pp. 128 and 129 as well as 132 and 133). The beginnings of the books and of the metrical argumenta (p. 3, 21, 40, 58/59, 92, 112, 132, 173) are accentuated with initials, partly in two colors (red/green). There are numerous marginal and interlinear glosses, mainly from the 12th and 13th century. On pp. 196–197, probably in the same hand, is the Planctus Oedipodis, Inc. Diri patris infausta pignora (Oedipus' lament about the death of his sons). The poem comprises 21 rhyming stanzas of four lines each, the first of which has neumes on a staff of four lines. This form of notation argues against the manuscript's originating in St. Gall.
Online Since: 06/22/2017
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- Morel, Gallus (Librarian) | Statius, Publius Papinius (Author) Found in: Standard description