This manuscript, dated in two places to the years 1465 (p. 393) and
1467 (p. 181) and perhaps written by eight different hands,
belonged to the Benedictine Convent of St. George near St. Gall and
became part of the Abbey Library of St. Gall as part of an exchange
around 1780/82. The codex, written entirely in German, contains the
explanation of the Decalogue by Marquard of Lindau (pp. 3−176);
the song Ain raine maid verborgen lag from Spiegelweise by Heinrich
Frauenlob (pp. 177−181); instructions regarding attention during
prayer, attributed to Thomas Aquinas (pp. 182−186); the Büchlein
der ewigen Weisheit by Henry Suso (pp. 195−393); reflections on
consecration (pp. 394−399) and on the Sunday (pp. 399−402); as
well an anonymous treatise on death (pp. 405−422). Several
parchment fragments from an 11th/12th century St. Gall liturgical
manuscript containing neumes were used in order to reinforce this
manuscript.
Place
Preferred form
St. Georgen. Community of Benedictine nuns (Switzerland)
Original form
Community of Benedictine nuns at St. Georgen near St. Gall
Other form
Community of the sisters of St. Georgen above St. Gall; Friedrich Kölner (or Colner); other (three?) scribes
Friedrich Kölner (Colner) for the community of female Benedictines of St. Georgen above St. Gall
