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St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 987

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St. Gallen. Stiftsbibliothek
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  • Cod. Sang. 987
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Date
  • 15th century
  • 1454
Language
  • German
Title
  • Illustrated composite manuscript of edifying texts from the community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall with three edifying treatises in German
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Description
  • This manuscript contains three substantial treatises in German. At the beginning there is the life of Archbishop Johannes of Alexandria (pp. 5−83), written by Anastasius Bibliothecarius. It is followed by the edifying treatise Die vierundzwanzig Alten oder der goldene Thron der minnenden Seele by Otto of Passau (pp. 87−544) and the History of the Three Kings (Historia trium regum) by John of Hildesheim (pp. 546−602). The treatise by Otto of Passau is illustrated with 25 colored pen and ink drawings, outlined in red and extending the width of the column. The History of the Three Kings begins with a full-page miniature (p. 546), which shows the three Magi visiting the infant Jesus. The scribe and the illustrators of this manuscript, which possibly originated in the circle of the community of lay brothers of St. Gall, are unknown; stylistic characteristics suggest the Konstanz book illumination of Rudolf Stahel. The manuscript is dated to the year 1454 in three places (p. 93 as an inscription in a picture; p. 544; p. 602). In the 15th century the manuscript was the property of the community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall (who did not know Latin); in 1618 the manuscript was still in the library of the community of lay brothers. At least since 1755 it has been attested in the main library of St. Gall Abbey.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • Lake Constance area
    Original form
    • Region of Lake Constance
    Other form
    • Bodenseegebiet
    • Lake of Constance Region
    • Lac de Constance (région)
    • Llac de Constança (regió)
    • Lago Constanza (región)
    • Meer van Konstanz (omgeving)
    • Bodenmeer (omgeving)
    • Bodensee (omgeving)
    • Lake Constance area
    • Lake Constance region
    • Area of Lake Constance
    • Area of Lake Constance
    • Bodenseegebiet (Reichenau?)
    • Bodenseegebiet (St. Gallen?)
    • Bodenseegebiet, Ostfrankreich
    • Bodenseegebiet, St. Gallen?
    • Bodenseeraum
    • Bodensee
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  • Preferred form
    • Abbey of St. Gall (Switzerland)
    Original form
    • Community of lay brothers of the Monastery of St. Gall
    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 (F. 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
    • St. Gall (area near St. Gall)
    • St. Gall, Abbey Library
    • Germany, St. Gall
    • Sankt Gallen
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