This manuscript, probably written in the Benedictine Allerheiligen
Abbey in Schaffhausen, contains, besides many shorter, often later
added texts, a number of German-language lives of the saints
(Maurice and the Theban Legion, Mary Magdalene, Elizabeth of
Hungary), meditative texts (on Maundy Thursday, on the Passion of
Christ, the Steinbuch of a certain Volmar), and the Book of
Founders of Allerheiligen Abbey. The latter is a free adaptation of
the 12th century legend of the founding of the Abbey on the Rhine.
Using the cut leather (cuir-ciselé) technique, an artist cut
central figures of the foundation legend (probably St. Benedict,
Eberhard of Nellenburg, Burkhard of Nellenburg, Wilhelm of Hirsau?)
into the front and back of the cover. On p. 204, there is a pen
sketch of the saints Benedict and Bernard. At an unknown date, the
manuscript came into the possession of the scholar Aegidius Tschudi
of Glarus and, together with his literary estate, was bought by the
Monastery of St. Gall in February 1768.
Place
Preferred form
Schaffhausen. All Saints Abbey (Switzerland) (?)
Original form
Schaffhausen, Allerheiligen Abbey (?)
Rights
e-codices - Virtual Manuscript Library of Switzerland
