This manuscript, probably produced in the 14th century in the area
around Lake Constance, contains a copy of the main part of the
Legenda Aurea by Jacobus de Voragine (pp. 5−691), as well as
small parts of the so-called Provincia appendix (p. 691−701). On
the last three pages a sermon for the Feast of Saints Peter and
Paul (June 29) has been added. The area of Lake Constance is
suggested by remains of a document glued to the front and back
inside covers (probably parts of the writing “Konstanz”) and
also by an ownership note on p. 704 dated to the late 15th or the
early 16th century from a community of sisters near Stammheim
(Vnnser frouwen ze niderstamhem ist das …). This could refer to
the community of Beguines of Haslen in the municipality of Adlikon
in the Zürcher Weinland (wine country of Zurich), which was
dissolved during the Reformation. This volume has been the property
of the library of the monastery St. Gall at least since the middle
of the 18th century.
Place
Preferred form
Lake Constance area (?)
Original form
Lake Constance area (?)
Rights
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