Philipp Lenz
Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Wissenschaft, Stellvertretender Stiftsbibliothekar / Handschriftenkatalogisierung
Deputy Director at the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
After the Matura at the Klosterschule Disentis in 1997, he studied History, English Literature and International Relations at the University of Geneva and the University of Nottingham. Thereafter he earned a degree in education and teaching (Gymnasiallehrerdiplom). He completed his PhD in Medieval History at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) in 2012.
Since 2005 Philipp Lenz has worked at the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, where he is in charge of describing the medieval and early modern manuscripts. In 2018 he was appointed deputy director of the Stiftsbibliothek. From 2008 to 2011, he benefited from a grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation to work on his PhD about the history of the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century, which was published in 2014. Moreover he was a teacher at the Gymnasium Untere Waid in Mörschwil from 2012 to 2017. In 2012/2013, 2016/2017, 2018/2019 and 2021 he taught palaeography at the University of Konstanz. In 2014 he conceived an exhibition about legal manuscripts and legal history at the Stiftsbibliothek. He has collaborated in other exhibitions.
Within the broad field of medieval studies, his primary research interests are the history of monasticism and in particular the history of the abbey of St. Gallen, moreover legal history and liturgical history as well as palaeography, codicology and medieval bookbinding. His studies often cross traditional boundaries between disciplines and tend to examine neglected but crucial aspects and objects of medieval history (liturgy, canon law, the medieval book).
He worked on a catalogue of liturgical manuscripts (2008), co-authored an edition and a study of fifth-century Vetus Latina fragments (2012) and was responsible for a catalogue of legal manuscripts (2014). Other publications deal with pre-Accursian glosses to the Tres libri in Cod. Sang. 749 (2011), the renewal of the cult of Saint Gall in the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century (2012), the reforms of the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century (2015), the palaeographical and methodological problems of the glosses of Ekkehart IV. (2015), the context of transmission of the Decretum Gratiani in Cod. Sang. 673 (2016), the cult and the sequences in honour of the Virgin Mary in the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th and 16th centuries (2017), the context of production and the use of the Evangelium longum (2017) and the glosses in the earliest manuscripts of the Decretum Gratiani (2018). In a recent series of articles, he has re-examined the unique collection of medieval bindings of the Stiftsbibliothek (2019, 2020, 2021).
Address: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
Klosterhof 6D
9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland
After the Matura at the Klosterschule Disentis in 1997, he studied History, English Literature and International Relations at the University of Geneva and the University of Nottingham. Thereafter he earned a degree in education and teaching (Gymnasiallehrerdiplom). He completed his PhD in Medieval History at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) in 2012.
Since 2005 Philipp Lenz has worked at the Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, where he is in charge of describing the medieval and early modern manuscripts. In 2018 he was appointed deputy director of the Stiftsbibliothek. From 2008 to 2011, he benefited from a grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation to work on his PhD about the history of the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century, which was published in 2014. Moreover he was a teacher at the Gymnasium Untere Waid in Mörschwil from 2012 to 2017. In 2012/2013, 2016/2017, 2018/2019 and 2021 he taught palaeography at the University of Konstanz. In 2014 he conceived an exhibition about legal manuscripts and legal history at the Stiftsbibliothek. He has collaborated in other exhibitions.
Within the broad field of medieval studies, his primary research interests are the history of monasticism and in particular the history of the abbey of St. Gallen, moreover legal history and liturgical history as well as palaeography, codicology and medieval bookbinding. His studies often cross traditional boundaries between disciplines and tend to examine neglected but crucial aspects and objects of medieval history (liturgy, canon law, the medieval book).
He worked on a catalogue of liturgical manuscripts (2008), co-authored an edition and a study of fifth-century Vetus Latina fragments (2012) and was responsible for a catalogue of legal manuscripts (2014). Other publications deal with pre-Accursian glosses to the Tres libri in Cod. Sang. 749 (2011), the renewal of the cult of Saint Gall in the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century (2012), the reforms of the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th century (2015), the palaeographical and methodological problems of the glosses of Ekkehart IV. (2015), the context of transmission of the Decretum Gratiani in Cod. Sang. 673 (2016), the cult and the sequences in honour of the Virgin Mary in the monastery of St. Gallen in the 15th and 16th centuries (2017), the context of production and the use of the Evangelium longum (2017) and the glosses in the earliest manuscripts of the Decretum Gratiani (2018). In a recent series of articles, he has re-examined the unique collection of medieval bindings of the Stiftsbibliothek (2019, 2020, 2021).
Address: Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen
Klosterhof 6D
9000 St. Gallen
Switzerland
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The study confirms previous findings that two scripts are to be distinguished and that the scripts are to be located in Western Francia and in the scriptorium of the Abbey of St. Gall, respectively. Moreover, it establishes the number of the hands involved in the copying of the Golden Psalter and their respective contributions and it proposes new dates for subsequent entries and annotations.
Key to understanding the manuscript is the fact that the text and the titles in the West Frankish script were fully or partially rewritten – by tracing the individual letters – or reworked at the Abbey of St. Gall, resulting in two more or less congruent layers of script. In order to access and to be able to characterize the lower script, one must focus on those letters, parts of the letters, words, abbreviations and punctuation signs that were not or not fully reworked. This partial und unsystematic reworking of the West Frankish script explains why previous scholars have failed to clearly identify the different hands.
Finally, the binding is shown to be extremely complex. Besides some additions and repairs made in modern times, the binding displays Romanesque, Gothic and maybe even Carolingian techniques and materials. The study is illustrated by numerous detailed images, tables, and figures.
This paper provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the palaeographical and codicological features of Cod. Sang. 673, it discusses the difficult questions of the date and the place of origin of this unique manuscript and it explores the different layers and types of annotations and their function. As a result, we are able to sketch a distinct profile of Cod. Sang. 673 that sets it apart from other early manuscripts of the Decretum Gratiani.
Largely unknown to the wider public, the Stiftsbibliothek possesses some of the earliest witnesses to the scholastic study of canon law and, to a lesser degree, of Roman law in the 12th century: an early version of the Decretum Gratiani (Cod. Sang. 673), maybe written in Modena in the third quarter of the 12th century, a manuscript with the Abbreviatio Quoniam egestas (Cod. Sang. 711), written in the Swiss monastery of Engelberg in the third quarter of the 12th century, a manuscript with the Compilatio prima (Cod. Sang. 715), written in northwestern France between 1193 and 1200, and a manuscript with the Tres libri Codicis (Cod. Sang. 749), written in France in the second half of the 13th century, but transmitting a layer of preaccursian glosses that originated in the later 12th century.
The study confirms previous findings that two scripts are to be distinguished and that the scripts are to be located in Western Francia and in the scriptorium of the Abbey of St. Gall, respectively. Moreover, it establishes the number of the hands involved in the copying of the Golden Psalter and their respective contributions and it proposes new dates for subsequent entries and annotations.
Key to understanding the manuscript is the fact that the text and the titles in the West Frankish script were fully or partially rewritten – by tracing the individual letters – or reworked at the Abbey of St. Gall, resulting in two more or less congruent layers of script. In order to access and to be able to characterize the lower script, one must focus on those letters, parts of the letters, words, abbreviations and punctuation signs that were not or not fully reworked. This partial und unsystematic reworking of the West Frankish script explains why previous scholars have failed to clearly identify the different hands.
Finally, the binding is shown to be extremely complex. Besides some additions and repairs made in modern times, the binding displays Romanesque, Gothic and maybe even Carolingian techniques and materials. The study is illustrated by numerous detailed images, tables, and figures.
This paper provides a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the palaeographical and codicological features of Cod. Sang. 673, it discusses the difficult questions of the date and the place of origin of this unique manuscript and it explores the different layers and types of annotations and their function. As a result, we are able to sketch a distinct profile of Cod. Sang. 673 that sets it apart from other early manuscripts of the Decretum Gratiani.
Largely unknown to the wider public, the Stiftsbibliothek possesses some of the earliest witnesses to the scholastic study of canon law and, to a lesser degree, of Roman law in the 12th century: an early version of the Decretum Gratiani (Cod. Sang. 673), maybe written in Modena in the third quarter of the 12th century, a manuscript with the Abbreviatio Quoniam egestas (Cod. Sang. 711), written in the Swiss monastery of Engelberg in the third quarter of the 12th century, a manuscript with the Compilatio prima (Cod. Sang. 715), written in northwestern France between 1193 and 1200, and a manuscript with the Tres libri Codicis (Cod. Sang. 749), written in France in the second half of the 13th century, but transmitting a layer of preaccursian glosses that originated in the later 12th century.