Printed at the Monastery of St. Gall & bound in a vellum manuscript leaf.

[Manuscript fragment] / Mauritius Geiger. Catecheses Extemporaneae in Quinque Capita Doctrinae Christianae, St. Gall: Typis Monasterii S. Galli, 1689. 8vo [15.1 x 9.6], [8] ff., 598 pp., with woodcut initials and tailpieces. In contemporary binding reusing a vellum leaf from a medieval manuscript, manuscript title label and later shelf-mark label on spine, brown speckled paper covering spine, blue edges, with stamps inside upper cover and on title page from the libraries of the Capuchins of Sarnen and of Sursee, inscription from Sarnen on top margin of title. Binding quite rubbed but much of script still legible. Title page dusty, occasional toning, quire Dd a bit loose.
 
 
Rare (1 U.S. copy: St John’s MN) first part of this 1689 work on catechism printed at the press of the Monastery of St. Gall. The volume is of interest for its binding, which reuses a vellum leaf from a 12th-century manuscript. The text here is from the Mass for the Feast of St. Marcellus, Martyr. The script is consistent with that practiced at St. Gall, although Sarnen is perhaps also a candidate for the scriptorium of origin. 
 
The manuscript is in Carolingian minuscule, with decorated initials in red, uncial, and red rustic capital display scripts.
 
Geiger’s Catecheses Extemporaneae in Quinque Capita was issued in three parts, of which this is only the first.
 
 
OCLC and KVK locate one U.S. copy of this work: St John’s in Minnesota.
 
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