This manuscript, written in the 15th century by a "sehr
routinierten und stilsicheren Schreiber" (Scarpatetti, S. 194; "a
very practiced and stylistically confident copyist"), contains the
first four parts of the great St. Gall historical work Casus sancti
Galli: the history of the monastery by the Monk Ratpert (pp. 3-39),
the Casus sancti Galli by the Monk Ekkehart IV (pp. 40-257), the
Casus sancti Galli by the anonymous continuators for the years 975
to 1203 (pp. 259−301), and the continuation of the history of the
monastery of St. Gall by Conradus de Fabaria from 1232/35 (pp.
317−370). The manuscript contains numerous annotations in the
hand of the Swiss scholar Aegidius Tschudi (1505−1572), but it is
not part of his collection of books, which came to the St. Gall
Abbey Library in 1768. Tschudi must have consulted and studied the
manuscript during a visit to the Abbey Library of Saint Gall.
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