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Abbey Library Of Saint Gall
The Abbey library of St Gall () is a significant medieval monastic library located in St. Gallen, Switzerland. In 1983, the library, as well as the Abbey of St Gall, were designated a World Heritage Site, as "an outstanding example of a large Carolingian monastery and was, since the 8th century until its secularisation in 1805, one of the most important cultural centres in Europe". It is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world. History and architecture The library was founded by Saint Othmar, founder of the Abbey of St. Gall. During a fire in 937, the Abbey was destroyed, but the library remained intact. The library hall, designed by the architect Peter Thumb in a Rococo style, was constructed between 1758 and 1767. There is a Greek inscription above the entrance door, (). It translates as "healing place for the soul", based on an inscription at Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus, the Library of Ramesses II. Collections The library collection is the oldest in Switzerland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbey Of St Gall
The Abbey of Saint Gall () is a dissolved abbey (747–1805) in a Catholic religious complex in the city of St. Gallen in Switzerland. The Carolingian Renaissance, Carolingian-era monastery existed from 719, founded by Saint Othmar on the spot where Saint Gall had erected his Hermitage (religious retreat), hermitage. It became an independent principality between 9th and 13th centuries, and was for many centuries one of the chief Benedictine abbeys in Europe. The Abbey library of Saint Gall, library of the Abbey is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world. The city of St. Gallen originated as an adjoining settlement of the abbey. The abbey was secularized around 1800, and in 1848 its former church became St. Gallen Cathedral, the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Gallen, Diocese of Saint Gallen. Since 1983 the abbey precinct has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site. History Foundation Around 612 Saint Gall, Gallus, according to tradition an Hiberno-Scottish missio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Berlitz Corporation
Berlitz Corporation is a language education and leadership training company which is based in Princeton, New Jersey. The company was founded in 1878 by Maximilian Berlitz in Providence, Rhode Island in the United States. Berlitz Corporation is owned by Berlitz Holdings, a company established through a 100% investment by ILSC Holdings LP (which owns ILSC Education Group, a company engaged in language education businesses such as study abroad), with more than 547 company-owned and franchised locations in more than 70 countries. History 1878: The First Berlitz Language School Maximilian Berlitz, born in Germany in 1852 to a family of educators and mathematicians, emigrated to the United States in 1870 and settled in Westerly, Rhode Island. By 1877, he had moved to Providence, where he taught languages at Bryant and Stratton National Business College, later known as Warner’s Polytechnic Business College. In 1878, Berlitz founded the first Berlitz School of Languages in Provid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of World Heritage Sites In Europe
A World Heritage Site is a place that is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) as having special cultural or physical significance. General lists * Former UNESCO World Heritage Sites * List of World Heritage in Danger * List of World Heritage Sites by year of inscription * World Heritage Sites by country * Lists by continent List of World Heritage Sites in Africa, Africa *List of World Heritage Sites in North Africa **List of World Heritage Sites in Algeria **List of World Heritage Sites in Egypt **List of World Heritage Sites in Libya **List of World Heritage Sites in Morocco **List of World Heritage Sites in Sudan **List of World Heritage Sites in Tunisia *Lists of World Heritage Sites in Western Africa **List of World Heritage Sites in Benin **List of World Heritage Sites in Burkina Faso **List of World Heritage Sites in Cape Verde **List of World Heritage Sites in Gambia **List of World Heritage Sites in Guinea **List of Wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis (other)
Codex Sangallensis (plural ''Codices Sangallenses'') is the designation of codices housed at the Abbey library of Saint Gall in St. Gallen. The codices are indexed with a continuous Arabic number of up to four digits. Many of the codices have been digitized through the e-codices project in Switzerland, with over 2000 of them freely available online. Notable Codices Sangallenses include: * Codex Sangallensis 18 (0130 on the list Gregory-Aland) — fragments of the gospels of Mark and Luke in Greek; 9th century * Codex Sangallensis 22, the Golden Psalter of St. Gallen * Codex Sangallensis 48 (037 on the list Gregory-Aland) — four gospels in Greek with only one lacuna; 9th/10th century * Codex Sangallensis 51 (48 on the list Beuron) — four gospels in Latin; 8th century * Codex Sangallensis 53 — also known as ''Evangelium Longum'', a book known mostly for its valuable covers. * Codex Sangallensis 56 — Diatessaron in Latin; 9th century; copy of the Codex Fuldensis * Codex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 1394
The Codex Vergilius Sangallensis is a manuscript which was written in the 4th century or 5th century, though it has survived only in fragments. Historical background The Vergilius Sangallensis most likely came to the Abbey library of Saint Gall during the Carolingian Renaissance, possibly under Abbot Grimald, the arch-chaplain of Louis the German. In 1461, the manuscript was reused for the restoration of other manuscripts' covers (Cod. Sang. 22; Cod. Sang. 248; Cod. Sang. 275) under the order of abbot Ulrich Rösch. The existing remains were bound into the first volume of a collected manuscript, consisting of fragments from various manuscripts, though the page sequence is disrupted by their faulty arrangement and the stapling of blank pages in between. Only 12 pages out of about 340 are still preserved, some only fragmentary (8 fragments), some having been turned into palimpsests sometime in the 12th or 13th century. The manuscript is currently being kept in the Abbey lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 902
The Codex Sangallensis 902 is a 186-page long manuscript written mid-9th century at the Abbey Library in St. Gallen, where it is still housed today. The pages are made of parchment, with a height of 32 cm and a width of 25 cm. The text was written in Carolingian minuscule and is typically split into two columns, with 35 lines per column. However, the text is structured in a single column in pages 153 through 179. Titles were written in rustic capitals, whilst chapter initials are in upper case. The illustrations were made by quill in a dark-brown ink, and they often go across their respective columns. The manuscript is a compilation of five separate parts written by different scribes. The writing styles of the manuscript's components indicate that parts II, III, and IV were formed in the early 9th century, and are thus the oldest sections of the codex. Historical Background The main text of the Codex Sangallensis 902 is the '' Recensio Interpolata,'' a Latin translation of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 878
Codex Sangallensis 878 is a manuscript kept in the library of the Abbey of St. Gall, in Switzerland. It dates to the 9th century and probably originates in Fulda monastery. It contains mainly excerpts of grammatical texts, including the ''Ars minor'' and ''Ars major'' of Aelius Donatus, the grammar of Priscian, the ''Etymologiae'' of Isidore of Sevilla and the grammar of Alcuin. Furthermore, it contains a presentation of the Greek alphabet, the Hebrew alphabet, the Anglo-Saxon runes and the Scandinavian Younger Futhark, the latter in the form of a short rune poem Rune poems are poems that list the letters of runic alphabets while providing an explanatory poetic stanza for each letter. Four different poems from before the mid-20th century have been preserved: the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poem, the Norwegian Rune ... known as the '' Abecedarium Nordmannicum''. Bischoff (1980) considers the manuscript a personal collection or '' brevarium'' of Walahfrid Strabo, who from 827 was in Fu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 397
The Grimalt Codex is a manuscript, now no. 397 in the abbey library of Saint Gall, containing poetic, Christian liturgy, liturgical, Computus, computistic, mythological, scientific and historical material, including a calendar and glossaries, in both Latin and Old High German.St. Gallen, StiftsbibliothekCod. Sang. 397 accessed 28 December 2024. It is named for its owner and probably compiler, Abbot Grimald of Weissenburg, Grimald of Abbey of Saint Gall, Saint Gall (). Creation The Grimalt Codex contains 148 parchment pages in ten Paper quire, quires and measures . In its final form, the manuscript is the work of about forty different scribes. The poetic collection Codex Sangallensis 899, also from Saint Gall, marks a text copied from the codex with the words "" ('I took from Grimald's book'). Other texts copied from the codex are marked with the initial G. This at least indicates that Grimald was the onetime owner of the codex and is usually taken to indicate that he was its compile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 250
The Codex Sangallensis 250 is a manuscript which was compiled in the latter half of the 9th century at the abbey library of Saint Gall, where it remains today. It is an Astronomy, astronomical and Date of Easter, computistical, 645-page-long encyclopedia written in Latin. The pages are made of parchment with a height of 24.7 cm and a width of 18 cm. The text was structured in a single column, with approximately 23 or 24 lines per page. It was mostly written in Carolingian minuscule, though the titles were either in rustic capitals or uncial script. Both the texts and the illustrations in the codex were created by multiple scribes, as can be seen by the differing handwritings and drawing styles. The manuscript was most likely compiled under the supervision of Notker the Stammerer, Notker Balbulus during his time as a librarian, and the margins of page 28 feature some glosses written by him. Historical background The didactic poem ''Phainomena'' ("Appearances") by the Greek poet A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 56
The Old High German Tatian is a translation of Tatian's Diatessaron from Syriac to Old High German. The translation was created in the Abbey of Fulda under Rabanus Maurus' supervision around the year 830 and has been located at the Abbey of Saint Gall since the 10th century, where it is classified as the Codex Sangallensis 56. The manuscript and its transmission The Old High German Tatian is one of the most significant translations created during Charlemagne's reign, next to the Old High German Isidor. It contains the text in both Latin and Old High German. During its creation, the Diatessaron, a gospel harmony written around 170 AD, was combined with a transcript of the Codex Fuldensis (Codex Bonifatianus I), turning it into a bilingual. Though the manuscript G (St. Gallen's Cod. Sang. 56) is the only known surviving one, the existence of other manuscripts is suspected. This assumption is based on the fact that there are references to another manuscript in excerpts from the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Codex Sangallensis 48
Codex Sangallensis is a Greek-Latin diglot uncial manuscript of the four Gospels. It is designated by Δ or 037 in the Gregory-Aland numbering of New Testament manuscripts, and ε76 in the von Soden numbering of New Testament manuscripts. The Latin text is written above the Greek text, interlinear style. Using the study of comparative writing styles (palaeography), it is usually dated to the 9th century CE, though a few palaeographers would place it in the 10th century CE. It was given its current name by biblical scholar Johann Martin Augustin Scholz in 1830. Description The manuscript is a codex (precursor to the modern book format), containing a near complete text of the four Gospels on 198 parchment leaves (sized ), with one missing section: John 19:17-35. The text is written in one column per page, 17-28 lines per page, in large semi-uncial letters using brown and black ink. The Latin text is written above the Greek (as in Codex Boernerianus (G)), and in minuscule let ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
