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  • Bruckner Albert, Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica 3, Schreibschulen der Diözese Konstanz, St. Gallen II, Genf 1938, S. 75.
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  • Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 58.
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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 158
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Manuscript title: Augustinus Hipponensis, De baptismo contra Donatistas libri VII
Place of origin: St. Gallen
Date of origin: s. IX 2/2
Support: Parchment
Extent: 105 leaves (numbered pp. 1-210)
Format: 245 x 320 mm
Collation: pp. 1-14 = I8 (3 is a half-sheet?); pp. 15-190 = II-XII8; pp. 191-210 = XIII10. [Early quire numbers are visible in the lower margin of the last page of each quire; Provisional foliation by JAW on the basis of the images.]
Page layout: 2 columns of 27 lines (written space: 95-100 x 224-226 mm). (Bruckner)
Writing and hands: Caroline minuscule, according to Bruckner in multiple beautiful, regular hands characteristic of the abbacy of Hartmut (AD 872-883).
Contents:
  • 1. pp. 3-207 Augustinus Hipponensis: De baptismo contra Donatistas libri VII >In nomine domini nostri iesu christi incipit liber primus beati augustini episcopi de baptismo.< In eis libris quos aduersus epistolam parmeniani quam dedit ad tichonium scripsimus promisimus nos diligentius quaestionem baptismi tractaturos …–… quod autem ab unitate non recesserunt gaudemus quia cum eis aedificamur in petra. Amen. >Expliciunt libri de baptismo sancti augustini numero VII.<
    Editions
    • Sanctus Aurelius Augustinus. De baptismo libri VII, ed. M. Petschenig in Scripta contra Donatistas (CSEL 51). Vienna: F. Tempsky, 1908, p. 143-376. This MS is Petschenig's MS L; edition also available on Google Books
    • Aurelius Augustinus. De baptismo contra Donatistas libri septem. PL 43: 107-214. Google Books
    For further bibliography, see: IMB and LexMA.
Origin of the manuscript: St. Gallen; probably the copy referred to in the 9th-c. booklist in CSG 728 (p. 9).
Codicological Bibliography
  • Bruckner, Albert. Scriptoria Medii Aevi Helvetica (Vol. 3). Geneva: Roto-Sadag, 1938, p. 75.
  • Janner, Sara, and Romain Jurot. Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus (Vol. 9/2). Vienna: Verlag der ÖAW, 2001, p. 132.
  • Scherrer, Gustav. Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibiliothek von St. Gallen. Halle: Verlag der Buchhandlung des Waisenhauses, 1875, p. 58. Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
  • For further bibliography, see: IMB