The main item of note in this collection of hagiographical materials is its unique copy of the anonymous life of Pope Gregory the Great which was composed at the English monastery of Whitby between and pages 75β Its contents comprise:. The seven units which make up Cod. As this implies, this volume is a collection of booklets that were bound together at a later date. The catalogue entry shows that this version of the book included a Life of St Goar , now removed, but not the Martinian materials that comprise the sixth and seventh sections of the modern book.
These were in place by the middle of the fifteenth century when quires were numbered from one to sixteen. That the book originated as a set of booklets is also indicated by variations in decoration and layoutβin the size of the text areas and in how they are ruled. But there is some suggestion that the lives of Gregory and Hilary may comprise a single unit pp. In any case, two scribes wrote the Life of Gregory , the first covering pages 75β , the second pages β The first writes twenty-five lines per page, the second twenty-six.
The rubrics on the opening page are in half-uncial script, and the initials are in red, but notice that, apart from the rubric following the preface, there are no sub-divisions.
What does this say about the function of this book and the booklets out of which it was constituted? Facsimile: St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod.
Text and Translation: B. For the Manuscript, see ibid. DPhil dissertation, University of Oxford, Galler Buchkunst vom 8. Jahrhunderts , 2 vols. Gallen, ; G. Scherrer, Verzeichniss der Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen Halle, , p. On the subject of booklets with reference to the fourth section of St Gallen , containing the Vita beati Lucii confessoris , see. Skip Links. St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. On the subject of booklets with reference to the fourth section of St Gallen , containing the Vita beati Lucii confessoris , see Gillespie, A.
