Volume 1 so-called Sacrarium Sancti Galli in six volumes (which
could not be found at the time of Gustav Scherrer’s cataloguing
of manuscripts before 1875). Volumes 2 to 6 of the Sacrarium have
the shelfmarks Cod. Sang. 1719−1723. This volume lists the cult
objects such as chalices, statues, monstrances, candle holders,
small altars, patens, censers, reliquaries, etc. that made up the
church treasure of the Monastery of St. Gall in the year 1693. This
overview, compiled and written by Father Gregor Schnyder
(1642-1708) and dedicated to the Prince-Abbot of St. Gall Cölestin
Sfondrati (1687−1696), includes historical information about the
individual cult objects and illustrates these objects with 60
realistic images in opaque colors. This register is of great
importance today since many of the objects were lost, were seized
or were melted down during the military invasions by troops from
Zurich and Bern in 1712, by the French in May 1789, through the
secularization of the monastery in 1805 and the following
liquidation of a great part of the abbey’s property. Various
works by renowned gold- and silversmiths of the early modern period
(including Hans Jacob Bayr, Augsburg; Heinrich Domeisen,
Rapperswil; Fidel Ramsperg, Appenzell; Johannes Renner, Wil) can be
reconstructed only through this Hierogazophylacium (German:
Heiligschatzbehälter, ‘container of holy treasure). Other cult
objects are still part of the cathedral treasure of St. Gall today,
such as the Spoon of St. Gall (p. 170b), which remains in
liturgical use today, or the small reliquary monstrance containing
parts of the sackcloth belt and robe of St. Gall (p. 168b). In his
compilation Fr. Gregor Schnyder paid special attention to the
relics contained in the various objects; he noted their origin and
copied certificates about their authenticity. This volume is
introduced by a frontispiece in shades of brown (fol. IIIr), which
shows the founding legend of the Monastery of St. Gall with the
Church of St. Gall as it appeared around 1693 in the background.
Place
Preferred form
Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
Original form
Monastery of St. Gall (P. Gregor Schnyder)
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
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
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
