library
Abbey of St Gall
719–1100
attested. Attested by continuous records and manuscripts.
The abbey grew from the cell of Gallus, a companion of Columbanus, and became a leading Carolingian centre of learning and music. Its library still holds its early medieval manuscripts on site.
Place: Abbey of Saint Gall · On the map
People
- Gallus (hermit, c. 612)
- Otmar (first abbot, 719)
- Notker the Stammerer
Manuscripts made here
Plan of St Gall (c. 820s, drawn at Reichenau for St Gall)
Kept now: St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 1092
Codex Sangallensis 48 (Greek-Latin Gospels, 9th c.)
Kept now: St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 48