Select manuscript from this collection: Cod. Sang. 1  Cod. Sang. 756 Cod. Sang. 759  Cod. Sang. 2135  587/882

Country of Location:
Country of Location
Switzerland
Location:
Location
St. Gallen
Library / Collection:
Library / Collection
Stiftsbibliothek
Shelfmark:
Shelfmark
Cod. Sang. 758
Manuscript Title:
Manuscript Title
Miscellany with medical texts, Lumen animae and exempla
Caption:
Caption
Parchment · 102 pp. · 21.5 × 14.5 cm · 14th and 15th century
Language:
Language
Latin, German
Manuscript Summary:
Manuscript Summary
This miscellany begins with a few short medical texts: pp. 56 Johannicius (Hunain ibn Ishāq), Isagoge ad Techne Galieni (a reworking of Galen’s Ars Parva, in the Latin translation of Constantinus Africanus), § 1–9; pp. 67 and 8 have a few verses from the Regimen sanitatis salernitanum, a didactic poem in hexameter on medicine; pp. 78 contains a short text on the proportions of combined medicatons, inc. Gradus est sedecupla proporcio; pp. 910 a text on bloodletting, with the title in red De flebotomia, inc. In flebotomia quedam generales condiciones sunt; pp. 1011 a Latin-German glossary of plant names, with the rubric title Nomina herbarum, inc. Plantago Wegerich; pp. 1112 a text on uroscopy, the beginning of which a later hand in the margin indicates with in the margin with the title De urinis, inc. Si urina alba fuerit. Pages 1214 are written in a later hand and contain, contrary to Scherrer, not further medical material, but rather an exemplum or exempla from the Vitaspatrum (In vitas patrum legitur quod quidam interrogavit senem quare cogitaciones prave inpedirent oraciones [?]). After the medical part comes on pp. 1589 a Latin version of the Lumen animae, a collection of natural history exempla for preaching. On the margins of the page appear small diagrams concerning the contents of the chapter as well as additions to the authorities named in the text. The Lumen animae is the only text in the manuscript to begin with a larger red initial and ends on p. 89 with the rubric colophon Finito libro sit laus et gloriae Christo. The next two pages (pp. 9091) contain, among other things, calendar verses and a text on the planets. Pages 9297 have a Latin version of the “Letter from Heaven” or the “Sunday Letter”, a letter supposedly that fell from heaven concerning the celebration of Sunday, inc. Incipit epistola dei de celo vere missa petro apostolo ab omnibus diebus dominicis qualiter sit colendus dies dominicus. A prayer follows on pp. 9798, inc. O dilecte Iesu Christus, felix est qui te amat. The final pages (pp. 98101) contain further exempla written in the same later hand as pp. 1214, inc. Legitur quod quedam mulier […] venisset ad beatum Hillarionem pro sterilitate tollenda. The manuscript is bound in a grey cardboard binding from the eighteenth century; the earlier parchment binding with a spine label bearing the shelfmark 758 survives, but it has been cut apart and stapled to the first and last quires, respectively (p. 3 and between p. 24-25; p. 102 and between p. 88-89). (sno)
Standard description:
Standard description
Scherrer Gustav, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek von St. Gallen, Halle 1875, S. 250.
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DOI (Digital Object Identifier):
DOI (Digital Object Identifier
10.5076/e-codices-csg-0758 (http://dx.doi.org/10.5076/e-codices-csg-0758)
Permanent link:
Permanent link
http://e-codices.unifr.ch./en/list/one/csg/0758
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IIIF Manifest URL
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How to quote
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 758: Miscellany with medical texts, Lumen animae and exempla (http://e-codices.unifr.ch./en/list/one/csg/0758).
Online Since:
Online Since
12/20/2023
Additional literature:
Additional literature
Additional literature – St. Galler Bibliotheksnetz (SGBN) - Verbundkatalog
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Document Type:
Document Type
Manuscript
Century:
Century
14th century, 15th century
Decoration:
Decoration
Initial, Ornamental, Penwork
Binding:
Binding
18th century
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