The Gottschalk Antiphonary

The Gottschalk Antiphonary Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach - Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology

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Publisher's Synopsis

Lisa Fagin Davis offers the first photographic reconstruction of the extant leaves of the Gottschalk Antiphonary, an important twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The Gottschalk Antiphonary, which was dismantled for binding scrap in the fifteenth century, is examined from various angles - art historical, liturgical, and musical - and its contributions to the study of medieval drama and the long-term ramifications of the investiture controversy are explored. The manuscript is studied within the historical and political context within which it was created, in order to better understand the decisions which went into its production. In addition to a black-and-white facsimile of the recovered portion of the manuscript, the book includes a survey of the twelfth-century Lambach scriptorium and a detailed codicological reconstruction of the codex. Appendices of charts and tables demonstrate how the Gottschalk Antiphonary compares to other liturgical manuscripts from the same period.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521592499
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 264.02009436
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 316
Weight: 73g
Height: 244mm
Width: 170mm
Spine width: 19mm