Liturgical manuscript with Latin and German texts from the Cistercian Nuns’ Cloister Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau
Description
Liturgical manuscript from the Cistercian Nuns’ Cloister
Günterstal near Freiburg im Breisgau, written by various hands,
partly in Latin and partly in German. The manuscript is damaged at
the end. It was purchased in the year 1782 by the St. Gall monk
Gall Metzler (1743-1820), parish priest in Ebringen near Freiburg,
which was owned by St. Gall. The manuscript contains, among other
texts, readings on the martyrology and on the Rule of Saint
Benedict for the month of August in both languages (p. 1-94), Latin
Lectiones for August, Latin pericopes from the Gospels from the
10th Sunday after Pentecost with sermons as well as German-language
legends of the saints according to the Alsatian Legenda Aurea for
the month of August (p. 395-502). Together with Cod. Sang. 1140 and
Cod. Sang. 1142, as well as probably six more now lost volumes,
this manuscript was part of a large Günterstal lectionary,
containing sermons as well as martyrological and liturgical texts.
Several pages were already cut out before the pagination at the end
of the 18th century.
