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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 824 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOTKER , a name of frequent occurrence in the ecclesiastical See also:

history of the See also:middle ages. NOTKER BALBULUS (c. 840—912) was a native of See also:northern See also:Switzerland, and for many years magister in the school of St See also:Gall. He compiled a See also:martyrology and other See also:works, but is famous for his services to See also:church See also:music and for the " sequences " of which he was the composer. He was canonized in 1513. His See also:life is in the Bollandist Ada Sanctorum, See also:April 6th. NOTKER See also:LABEO (d. See also:June 29th, 1022) was also an instructor at St Gall. His numerous See also:translations, including those of the Old Testament See also:Psalms, the categories of See also:Aristotle, the De nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae of Martianus See also:Capella, and the De consolatione of Boethius, into Old High See also:German, may possibly have been the See also:work of his pupils. They possess considerable philological See also:interest, and have been edited by E. G. Graff (See also:Berlin, 1837—1847), and by P.

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Piper under the See also:title Nolkers and seiner Schule Schriften (1883—1884). See J. Kelle, See also:Die Sankt Galler deutschen Schriften and Notker Labeo (See also:Munich, 1888) ; G. See also:Meyer von Knonau, " Lebensbild See also:des heiligen Notker," in See also:Mitten. Antiq. Gesellschafl See also:Zurich (1877).

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