Manuscript catalog by Father Hermann Schenk from the period around 1700 – Register of abbey library benefactors from 1567 until about 1780 – Various special lists of the abbey library’s printed books, compiled between about 1696 and about 1762.
A composite manuscript that is very instructive about the history
of the library; it is made up of various documents, written between
1680 and 1780 and then bound together. Part 1 (pp. 7-121):
manuscript catalog by Fr. Hermann Schenk (1653-1706) from the
period around 1700. Around 1750, Fr. Pius Kolb (1712-1762) added
his new catalog signatures. Kolb also noted missing manuscripts in
Schenk’s catalog. Most of these had been taken to Zurich in 1712
(deest). Part 2: (pp. 127−153 and pp. 162−167): register of
abbey library benefactors (Monumentum gratitudinis dedicatum
benefactoribus Bibliothecae), begun in 1680 and continued until
1780. Extraordinary donations to the library were entered
retroactively to 1567, such as (p. 133) the “donation” of a
large terrestrial and celestial globe by the pharmacist Lukas
Stöckli from Constance. Such mentions often concern objects from
the library’s cabinet of curiosities and rarities. Part 3 (pp.
155-161): books that were acquired between 1717 and 1737 under
Abbot Joseph von Rudolphi (1717-1740). Part 4 (pp. 169 and pp.
175-187): books from the estate of Prince-Abbot (1687-1696) and
Cardinal Cölestin Sfondrati, which after his death were integrated
into the library by Fr. Hermann Schenk. Part 5 (pp. 191-234):
collection of larger format volumes from the abbey library from the
period around 1700. Part 6: (pp. 237−270; separate loose
documents): list of the abbey library’s most beautiful books from
the period around 1750, composed by Fr. Pius Kolb and entitled
Ilias in nuce. Part 7 (pp. 275-280; collection of loose pages):
list of manuscript signatures by Fr. Pius Kolb.
Place
Preferred form
Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
Original form
Monastery of St. Gall
Other form
Suisse (Saint-Gall).
Kloster St. Gallen
Abadia de Sankt Gallen
Convent of St. Gall
Abadía de Sankt Gallen
Abbaye de Saint-Gall
Abdij van Sankt Gallen
St. Gall
St. Gall (?) / St. Gall
St. Gall Abbey: Dominikus Feustlin
St. Gall, Benedictine Monastery / Hermitage of St. George
Cloister of St. Gall
St. Gall Abbey
Order of Service for the Monastery of St. Gall in the Directorium of 1583
Joseph Leodegar Bartholomäus Tschudi (book decoration, perhaps the script as well) for the Abbey of St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall: two scribes at the behest of Georg Franz Müller
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Aemilian Zeller
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger
Jodocus Metzler
Commissioned by Abbot Otmar Kunz
St. Gall Abbey (P. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger)
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Joseph Bloch
Monastery of St. Gall, Fr. Dominikus Feustlin
Monastery of St. Gall
Abbey of Saint Gall
Partially in St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall (P. Gregor Schnyder)
St. Gall Abbey (F. Gregor Schnyder)
St. Gall Abbey (P. Gregor Schnyder, P. Chrysostomus Stipplin)
St. Gall Abbey (F. Kolumban Brändle; Brother Gall Beerle)
St. Gall Abbey, P. Ambrosius Epp
St. Gall Abbey (F. Martin ab Yberg; F. Notker Grögle)
St. Gallen
Abbey of St. Gall (Joseph Adam Bürke; F. Notker Grögle)
St Gall
St. Gall (possibly)
Monastery of St. Gall
St. Gall
Monastery of St. Gall (Fr. Heinrich Keller)
St. Gall (Fridolin Sicher)
Monastery of St. Gall (Fridolin Sicher)
[in part Monastery of St. Gall]
Fridolin Sicher
St. Gall (in part)
Lay community of St. Gall, partly Monastery of St. Gall (P. Joachim Cuontz)
Area of the Abbey of Saint Gall
St. Gall (only parts)
Monastery of St. Gall, possibly owned for a time by Fr. Gallus Kemli
Community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall
