In an elegant binding decorated with gold, Abbey Librarian Johann
Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756-1823) compiled for his Abbot Beda Angehrn
(1767-1796) a list of new acquisitions and accessions between 1780
and 1792: Verzeichniss der Handschriften, Bücher, Kunst und
Naturprodukte, welche seit dem 23. Oktober 1780 bis Ende Mayes 1792
der Stift St. Gallischen Bibliotheke sind einverleibt worden. This
volume thus is a unique document of the acquisition policy and
practice of the Monastery of St. Gall. In barely twelve years, a
total of 335 incunabula and postincunabula, around 4,000 later
printed works, as well as 146 manuscripts were integrated into the
library. Most of these manuscripts came to the current abbey
library (in exchange for printed literature of ascetic-spiritual
character) from St. Gall women’s cloisters such as the
Benedictine nuns of St. George, the Capuchin nuns of Altstätten or
the Dominican nuns of Wil. Accessions to the coin collection, the
natural history collection, and the cabinet of curiosities, new
acquisitions of paintings and prints, as well as alia quaedam
bibliothecae illata (diverse other acquisitions of various types
such as chairs made of Spanish cane or a new library seal) are
mentioned. Also listed are general expenditures for bookbinding as
well as monetary contributions owed to the library by those
officials and clergy onto whom the abbot had newly conferred a
secular office or a parish.
Place
Preferred form
Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
Original form
Monastery of St. Gall, P. Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger
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
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
