This volume, written almost exclusively in Latin, contains a
compilation of texts taken from numerous older sources about
transfers of saints in the territory of the Princely Abbey of Saint
Gall. The St. Gall monk and custos Gregor Schnyder (1642−1708)
compiled and wrote the text, mostly in chronological order, and
presented it to Abbot Leodegar Bürgisser (abbot 1696−1717) on 19
April 1699, his name day. The illustrations in opaque colors were
done by Father Gabriel Hecht (1664−1745). At the beginning there
are descriptions of the various transfers of the relics of Saint
Gall between about 640 and 1484 (fol. IXv – p. 20) and those of
Saint Othmar between 759 and 1692 (pp. 24b−99). This is followed
by reports about the transfers of the relics of Notker Balbulus as
well as of his beatification in 1513 (pp. 104b−163) and about the
dislocation of the relics of Othmar and Notker that was
necessitated by the new construction of the church of Othmar (pp.
169−286). Next are reports of donations of relics of various
saints from and of the Abbey of St. Gall (pp. 287−354), among
them reports about the arrival of the relics of the saints Magnus
(898), Constantius of Perugia (904), Remaclus of Stavelot (1035),
Faith of Agen (1084), Charles Borromeo (1611), Sigisbert and
Placidus from Disentis Abbey (1624) and Bishop Landolo of Treviso
(1631), which were particularly revered in the Abbey of St. Gall.
The back part of the manuscript contains compilations of documents
and reports about the 17th century transfers of Roman catacomb
saints to the territory of the Princely Abbey of Saint Gall: there
are descriptions (including the respective background and
festivities) of the transfer of Honoratus to the Abbey Church of
St. Gall in 1643 (pp. 367b−453), of Antoninus and Theodorus to
the Abbey Church of St. Gall in 1654 and to Neu St. Johann Abbey in
1685 and of Antonius to the Abbey Church of St. Gall in 1654 (pp.
458−507), of Leander to the Capuchin Convent Maria der Engel near
Wattwil in 1652 (pp. 508−513), of Marinus to Lichtensteig in 1657
(pp. 518−530), of Theodora to the Cistercian Convent Magdenau in
1662 (pp. 533−539), of Pancratius to Wil in 1672 (pp. 541−571),
of Constantius to Rorschach in 1672 (pp. 573−644), of Laureatus
to Wildhaus in 1676 (pp. 647−682), and of Sergius, Bacchus,
Hyacinthus and Erasmus to the Abbey Church of St. Gall in 1680 (pp.
687–747).
Place
Preferred form
Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
Original form
St. Gall Abbey (F. 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
Monastery of St. Gall (P. 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
