Kemli, Gallus
This composite codex belonged to Kemli, a monk of St. Gall who had the parts, some of which come from the fourteenth century, bound together and interspersed with blank pages, which he and other writers then filled in. For this reason, the manuscript features numerous different hands and a constantly changing layout. The larger blocks of related text are a collection of sermons (Liber Sagittarius, pp. 3–61), a confessors' manual (pp. 71a–92b), commentaries on hymns and sequences (pp. 118–217b), as well as a collection, apparently assembled by Kemli himself, of ancient historical exempla, which in part are taken from the Gesta romanorum (pp. 226–357). The leather binding dates from the fifteenth century.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Hugo, von Trimberg (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) | Ludovici, Johannes (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Eccardus IV, Sangallensis (Author) | Hugo, von Trimberg (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) | Ludovici, Johannes (Author) Found in: Additional description
The folio-sized volume transmitting a collection of legends from James of Voragine probably comes from the personal collection of Kemli, monk of St. Gall; in any case, it is expanded and corrected in his own hand. The arrangement of the manuscript is therefore not unitary. The older part is copied in two columns by a late fourteenth-century hand; the texts on the leaves inserted and annotated by Kemli are in a single column (pp. 2–20, 164–189, 210–211, 445–462, 471–474). The Legenda sanctorum (pp. 2–452) is supplemented by a Materia de exorcismo et coniurationibus (pp. 456–470) added by Kemli. To this text there are some additions, pp. 463–470, made in an another hand from the second half of the fifteenth century, which in turn were expanded by Kemli (p. 470). On pp. 471–473 follows the final text, written in Kemli's hand, containing a legend of the Eleven Thousand Virgins; before the beginning of the text a half-page leaf was glued. Probably it was the woodcut with the ship of St. Ursula that Ildefons von Arx detached (Kemli-Kat., Nr. 31). The fifteenth-century binding has been repaired several times and has two leather covers and, on the front cover, a title label written by Kemli.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
- Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Buchegger, Franz Eduard (Librarian) | Jacobus, de Voragine (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) Found in: Additional description
This voluminous paper manuscript was written by Gallus Kemli († 1480/81) approximately in the period 1466 to 1476. It transmits tools, compendia, and summaries of theology, canon law, liturgy, and confession and penance, as well as prayers and chants with German Plainchant (Hufnagel) notation for the mass, a rituale, and, finally, further prayers, blessings, sermons and exhortations, partly in Latin and partly in German. The manuscript is bound in a limp wrapper with a red leather cover. Gallus Kemli, monk of Saint Gall, who led an erratic itinerant life outside the abbey, left at his death a large collection of books, including this one.
Online Since: 09/22/2022
- Adamus, Easton (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Annotator) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Adamus, Easton (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Kemli, Gallus (Scribe) | Kemli, Gallus (Annotator) | Kemli, Gallus (Former possessor) | Nicolaus, de Lyra (Author) Found in: Additional description
Autographic collected manuscripts from the collection of the traveling monk of St. Gall, Gallus Kemli († about 1481) containing numerous texts, some composed by Kemli himself, others transcriptions, among them the index of his private library. Kemli spent 30 years outside of his mother monastery at St. Gall, with the authorization of the abbot, sojourning in cities and towns of Switzerland and Germany.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
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- Kemli, Gallus (Author) | Petrus, Pictaviensis de Sancto Victore (Author) Found in: Standard description
Manuscript compilation by the wandering monk of St. Gallen, Gall Kemli († 1481) with a wide variety of copied texts and original compositions in Latin and German languages (Diversarius multarum materiarum), for instance: recipes for medicines, instructions in liturgical song, exorcism, scribal rules, indulgences, etc. Affixed into the manuscript are twelve colored single page prints from the 15th century, which are valuable–in some cases unique–exemplars in the history of European printing.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
- Kemli, Gallus (Author) Found in: Standard description
Manuscript of collected works (Collectanea) penned by and part of the personal collection of the wandering monk of St. Gall, Gall Kemli († 1481). It includes mainly texts with theological-philosophical, astronomical and medical content, but also, for example, recipes against lice, fleas, and worms, and a text about the fish and crustaceans inhabiting various bodies of water in Switzerland and southern Germany, together with advice on the best times to catch them and ways to prepare them.
Online Since: 04/26/2007
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