Summer Exhibition 2020
Switzerland’s Most Beautiful Pages – Sacred Manuscripts
Exhibition in the Baroque Hall of the Abbey Library of St Gall
10 March to 8 November 2020
The Abbey Library of St Gall opens for you Switzerland’s most beautiful pages. Illuminated manuscripts make their texts shine and also shed light in a metaphorical sense as images explain the world. They make texts clearer and encourage reflection and contemplation. Decorated manuscripts serve to praise God and display the wealth of their patrons.
The exhibition celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of the e-codices project, the Swiss platform for the digitisation of manuscripts. In this connection, the Abbey Library is showing highlights from its own holdings as well as a large number of valuable loans from other libraries participating in the e-codices programme.