Amalarius, Metensis (775-850)
Four bifolia (likely 1 quire) of a manuscript produced in France that contained John of Avranches' explanations of the Divinum officium and Amalarius of Metz's Ordo missae. In 1632, the fragment came to Bern as part of the property of Jacques Bongars.
Online Since: 07/12/2021
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- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Johannes, Rothomagensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Carolingian reform efforts responded to a desire to regularize religious orders by creating a unified rule for monastic life, the Concordia regularum of Benedict of Aniane. In the resulting course of events, an effort was made during the turn from the 9th to the 10th century to dinstinguish the monastic status from the canonical. In 816 Ludwig the Pious made the results of the Council of Aix public; the first part of the Institutio canonicorum presents the statutes of the church fathers and the previous councils, the second part explains the resolutions of the council. The task of putting this work into writing was long attributed to Amalarius of Metz, a student of Alcuin and advisor of Charlemagne; however, another author must be acknowledged for this work, which totals 118 chapters, some of which are extremely comprehensive: Benedict of Aniane is also supposed to have been a contributor. The manuscript held by the Fondation Martin Bodmer was copied only a few years after the original publication of the text (in the first half of the 9th century) in a very fine Carolingian script, and it belonged to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Jacob in Mainz. A full-page drawing portraying the crucifixion was added in the 12th or 13th century at the end of the book.
Online Since: 12/21/2009
- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Beatty, Alfred Chester (Former possessor) | Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Ess, Leander van (Former possessor) | Phillipps, Thomas (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript produced at the Abbey of St. Gall during the second half of the 11th century contains a copy of De ecclesiasticis officiis Lib. I et II by Amalarius (Metensis), from which some chapters are missing. The continuation, with the missing text, is found in Cod. 110, which was also produced in St. Gall.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
A manuscript of collected works, including the Ordines Romani and the works of Amalarius (Metensis). The content of this codex is nearly identical to that of Abbey Library of St. Gall Cod. Sang. 446, indicating that this copy, made in the second half of the 11th century, is of St. Gallen origin.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ligerz, Heinrich von (Librarian) | Morel, Gallus (Librarian) Found in: Standard description
This is an unadorned copy, significant in terms of textual history, of the De ecclesiasticis officiis libri IV (also referred to as Liber officialis) by liturgist and Archbishop Amalarius of Metz († around 850); it was written at the monastery ofSt. Gall around 820, probably under Deputy-Abbot and Abbot Hartmut (872-883). Between book 3 and book 4, inserted on pages 349 to 361, the manuscript contains five letters by Amalarius of Metz to various addressees.
Online Since: 12/20/2012
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Manuscript compilation consisting mainly of works of liturgical and pastoral character, produced between 845 and 870 in the monastery of St. Gall. It contains, among other items, a liturgical study by Abbot Walahfrid Strabo of Reichenau (808/09-849) Liber de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum, the first western European reference work on liturgical history, the so called Ordines Romani, a liturgical study by Amalar of Trier, the first Capitular of Bishop Theodulf of Orléans, two treatises about baptism and the mass attributed to Alcuin as well as the Capitular documents (diocesan legislative documents) of Haito, Bishop of Basel and Abbot of Reichenau.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
Manuscript collection produced at the monastery of St. Gall, containing the oldest known surviving version of the Casus sancti Galli by the monk Ratpert, in a copy from about 900. Additional longer texts, written down between the 9th and 13th centuries contain sermons by the early Church fathers, a register of the abbots of St. Gall from the 7th through the 13th centuries, hymns, and excerpts from the Collectio Canonum by Pseudo-Remedius as well as the Micrologus by Bernold of Konstanz.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Ambrosius, Autpertus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Annotator) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Ephraem, Syrus (Author) | Joachim, Vadianus (Author) | Johannes, Chrysostomus (Author) | Ratpertus, Sangallensis (Author) | Remedius, Curiensis (Author) | Remigius, Altissiodorensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
Copies of a variety of canonical texts, written between 1080 and 1100, likely at the Cloister of St. Blaise or the Cloister of Allerheiligen (All Saints) in Schaffhausen by theologian and canonist Bernold von Konstanz or by employees under his supervision. It contains, among other items, copies of the Poenitentiales by Rabanus Maurus ad Heribaldum, the sixth book of the Poenitentiales by Halitgar of Cambrai, excerpts from the Decree of Burchard of Worms, proceedings of the first Christian Councils, the Epitome Hadriani and the Collectio 74 titulorum cum appendice Suevica.
Online Since: 11/04/2010
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- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Scribe) | Bischoff, Johannes (Former possessor) | Burchardus, Wormaciensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) | Halitgarius, Cameracensis (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Nikolaus I., Papst (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Amalarius, Metensis (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Author) | Bernoldus, Constantiensis (Scribe) | Bischoff, Johannes (Former possessor) | Burchardus, Wormaciensis (Author) | Gregorius I, Papa (Author) | Guido, Aretinus (Author) | Halitgarius, Cameracensis (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Ivo, Carnotensis (Author) | Nikolaus I., Papst (Author) | Pater Pius Kolb (Librarian) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) Found in: Additional description
Cod. Sang. 1398a is one of eight fragment volumes (that is, volumes that contain exclusively fragments) of the Abbey Library of St. Gall. Between 1774 and 1785, the St. Gall monks Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger (1756–1823) and Ildefons von Arx (1755–1833) detached numerous fragments from bindings in which they had served for centuries as pastedowns, flyleaves, spine linings, and endleaf guards. At an advanced age, Ildefons von Arx had the fragments bound in eight thematically-organized bindings and dedicated these in 1822 to his friend Johann Nepomuk Hauntinger. Chiefly in the twentieth century, researchers found additional, small fragments in bindings, from which they were then removed and added to the existing fragment volumes or into the collection of fragments. From 2003 to 2004 the extensive fragment volume Cod. Sang. 1398a was disbound for conservation reasons. The fragments were rebound (in the same sequence) in 14 folders (“Ganzpapierbroschuren”). The new, now authoritative pagination begins with 1 in each folder and includes only the fragments (and not the empty paper leaves). To be cited (for example): St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1398a.1, pp. 1-2 (= Cod. Sang. 1398a, Folder 1, pages 1-2). The fifth folder of Cod. Sang. 1398a contains fragments from one manuscript of the Amalarius' Forma institutionis canonicorum dating from the ninth/tenth century.
Online Since: 09/06/2023
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