This large-format manuscript, which forms a unit with Cod. Sang.
1758, itself consists of two parts. The first part (p. 1-214) from
1473 (dating in the initial on p. 1) was completed in the 16th/17th
century. Both parts, however, are not complete; furthermore,
multiple pieces have been deleted and replaced with other pieces.
The volume contains chants for the Mass – Proprium de sanctis,
Commune sanctorum, Ordinarium missae (partially troped), Sequences
and Tractus– in German plainsong notation ("Hufnagelnotation") in
a five line-system. Together with Cod. Sang. 1758, this codex
presents the oldest systematic St. Gall records of sequences on a
musical staff. Several pages have book decorations in the form of
borders and initials, sometimes with figurative representations.
Until 1930, the manuscript was kept in the choir library (first of
the St. Gall monastery, later of the St. Gall cathedral).
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