St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek MS 295 Compilation of biblical glossaries and glossae collectae, Eucherius, "Instructiones;' Jerome, Epistle 25

Abstract

449. St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek MS 295

Compilation of biblical glossaries and glossae collectae,

Eucherius, "Instructiones;' Jerome, Epistle 25

[Ker App. 27, Gneuss -]

HISTORY: A late 9/early 10c collection of Old and New Testament and other glossaries and materials with OHG and, less frequently, OE-derived interpretations (see Steinmeyer and Sievers 1879-1922: 4.448-49, henceforth "StS"). In a single hand, possibly a St. Gall hand (cf. Bruckner 1938: 94); this type of hand is sometimes called ''.Alemannic" minuscule; some chapter rubrics in rustic capitals. The group of three manuscripts containing biblical glossaries and described, on the basis of origin of two of its three members, as the "St. Gallen group" (Vaciago 2000/2002: 241), includes as well as this manuscript St. Gall 9 [446] and "P'; St. Paul im Lavantal, Stiftsbibliothek x.xv. d. 82 [454]. The common nucleus of this group of three manuscripts(= "PSg") has been seen as "forming a clearly distinct branch of the tradition ultimately deriving from Canterbury" (Vaciago 2000/2002: 241,247) and as having the glossary tradition represented by the Leiden Glossary (Leiden, Bibliotheek der Rijksuniversiteit, Voss. lat. fol. 24 (156] = "L2") as one of its "main building blocks" (Vaciago 2004: I.vi). The biblical glossary in St. Gall 295, in the view of its editor, P. Vaciago, "represents an attempt, generally sucessful, to reorder into a single, coherent series the idiosyncratic sequence of material shared by P and Sg 9" (Vaciago 2000: 247). To summarize the arguments in Pheifer 1995, Vaciago 2000/2002, and Vaciago 2004 (Vol. 1, introduction), to the extent that the biblical glossaries in "PSg"and "Rz" (Karlsruhe, Landesbibl. Aug. 99 ( 86) [ 142]) are descendents of traditions represented in Pent I, II, III (Pent. III for "PSg"; on these see Bischoff and Lapidge 1994: 190-94, 290-94 et pass.), both can be said to be equally close to an "English tradition:' by which is meant the school of Canterbury and the program of Theodore and Hadrian. A complete digital facsimile of St. Gall 295 has been published recently: http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/en/csg/0295/.