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The abbey library of Saint Gall (German: Stiftsbibliothek) is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland.In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St. Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural ...
The Abbey of Saint Gall (German: Abtei St. Gallen) is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his hermitage .
The Grimalt Codex is a manuscript, now no. 397 in the abbey library of Saint Gall, containing poetic, liturgical, computistic, mythological, scientific and historical material, including a calendar and glossaries, in both Latin and Old High German. [1] It is named for its owner and probably compiler, Abbot Grimald of Saint Gall (r. 841–872). [2]
Crucifixion in the St. Gall Gospel Book. The Irish Gospels of St. Gall or Codex Sangallensis 51 is an 8th-century Insular Gospel Book, written either in Ireland or by Irish monks in the Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland, where it is now in the Abbey library of St. Gallen as MS 51. [1] It has 134 folios (that is, 268 pages).
The Abbey's monastery and especially its celebrated scriptorium (evidenced from 760 onwards) played an illustrious part in Catholic and intellectual history until it was secularised in 1798. [2] [8] It is very likely that Gall kept a small library of books for himself and his disciples for their liturgical worship. Following his death and the ...
Today, the original evangeliary is located in the abbey library of Saint Gall and can be found in the Codex Sangallensis under Cod. 53. It belongs to the permanent exhibition of the abbey library. It is available online as part of the “e-codices”-project of the University of Fribourg. [1]
Pages in category "Manuscripts of the Abbey library of Saint Gall" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total. ... St. Gall Priscian Glosses; U.
The Stiftskirche St. Gallus und Otmar (Collegiate Church of St. Gall and Otmar) is a Roman Catholic church in the city of St. Gallen, Switzerland. [1] Once part of the Abbey of St. Gall , it has been the cathedral of the Diocese of St. Gallen since 1847. [ 2 ]