The first part of this volume contains a copy of the text En Damvs
Chronicon … Evsebii …, published in 1529 by the humanist
Johannes Sichardus (1499−1552) in the printer’s workshop of
Heinrich Petri in Basel. This printed work contains the Universal
Chronicle by Eusebius of Caesarea and its continuation by the
Church Father Jerome, the Universal Chronicle by Prosper of
Aquitaine, the historiographic work De temporibus by the Florentine
Matteo Palmieri (1406−1475), the short Chronica by Cassiodorus,
and the Chronicon by Herman the Cripple. The printed part is
preceded (on Fol. Av) by a handwritten computistic-calendric table
for the years 1501 to 1540 by the scholar Aegidius Tschudi
(1505−1572) of Glarus. The second, handwritten part of the volume
contains a copy of the text of the first four parts of the history
of the monastery of St. Gall, the Casus sancti Galli. Aegidius
Tschudi had his collaborator Franciscus Cervinus of Schlettstadt,
who had a humanist university education, copy the historiographic
works of the St. Gall monks Ratpert (pp. 1−37) and Ekkehart IV
(pp. 38−253), the abbey chronicle of those who anonymously
continued it for the years 975 to 1203 (pp. 255-305), as well as
the continuation by Conradus de Fabaria about the fate of the abbey
between 1203 and 1234 (pp. 307-367). The printed as well as the
handwritten parts contain numerous marginal notes in Tschudi’s
hand. The volume was owned by Tschudi (Sum Aegidii Schudi
Claronensis; ownership note on the front inside cover); as part of
Tschudi’s book collection, this volume was sold to St. Gall Abbey
in 1768 by his heirs.
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