Manuscript compilation containing the works of Abbot Bernard of
Reichenau (about 978- 1048; Abbot 1008-1048): a fragmentary copy of
a long dedicatory codex, delivered by Bernard to King Heinrich III
on the occasion of the Synod of Konstanz in the year 1043. Also
contains the Epistola de tonis (on psalmodic musical tones),
sermons for the high holy days of the Church year, sermons about
St. Mark, the patron saint of Reichenau, hymns, sequences dedicated
to Saints Ulrich, Gereon, and Willibrord, the holy office devoted
to St. Ulrich, and a large collection of letters. Many of the works
in this manuscript are the sole surviving exemplars from the second
third of the 11th century.
