Codex Sangallensis 381
Abbey of St. Gallen, mid-tenth century
Carolingian minuscule, written after Codex 484, and by the same scribe
Stiftsbibliothek Sankt Gallen, St Gallen (Switzerland)
Codex 381
Date of publication of the Facsimile: 1996
Publisher: Amadeus Verlag, Winterthur (Switzerland) for the Zentralbibliothek
Zurich (Switzerland)
Production, composition, and Notengrafik: Bibliomania GmbH, Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Printing: Weber Repro AG, Photolithos, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)|
This manuscript provides much information on the extensive range of music composed
and performed at the Benedictine abbey of St. Gallen at the beginning of the tenth
century. Apart from 72 sequences (this time, with text, and including the whole of
Notker's
Liber Ymnorum), it contains an even greater selection of tropes than
the earlier Codex 484, as well as notated versions of the psalmodic verses for Introit
and Communion chants for the whole liturgical year.
The openings presented here are part of the Sequentiary. They show sequences for the
Octave of the Feast of the Epiphany, where the melody is recorded in neumes alongside
the text.
In this facsimile, as in other recent reproductions of musical manuscripts, the original
size is carefully preserved, but the emphasis is on making the contents as legible as
possible, rather than providing realistic color.
