Robertus Monachus : History of the first cruisade

St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek / Cod. Sang. 658 – (1) Robertus Monachus: History of the first cruisade

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St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 658

Paper · 285 pp. · 31 x 21.5 cm · St. Gall · 1465

(1) Robertus Monachus: History of the first Crusade (illustrated); (2) Ottokar von Steiermark: rhymed chronicle of Austria: the fall of Akkon.


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Language: Middle High German, German, Alemannic

Manuscript Summary: German translation of a history of the First Crusade (1095/96-1099; "Historia Hierosolymitana"), composed by the monk Robertus Monachus from Reims. Written and illustrated with 22 colored pen drawings in the year 1465. As an appendix, the manuscript also contains around 9000 verses from the "Österreichische Reimchronik" (rhymed chronicle of Austria) by Ottokar of Steiermark describing the siege and destruction of the Crusaders' fortress in Akkon in the year 1291. (smu)

Standard description: Scarpatetti Beat Matthias von, Die Handschriften der Stiftsbibliothek St. Gallen, Bd. 1: Abt. IV: Codices 547-669: Hagiographica, Historica, Geographica, 8.-18. Jahrhundert, Wiesbaden 2003, S. 301-303.
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