The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture & Economy of & Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery. With. a Translation into English. of the Directives of Adalhard, 753-826, the Ninth Abbot of Corbie, and with a Note. on the Significance of the Plan of St. Gall to the History of Measurement. [In Three Volumes]

Horn, Walter and Ernest Born (text); Wolfgang Braunfels (foreword);

ISBN 10: 0520035909 / ISBN 13: 9780520035904

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 1979

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Folio (14" x 11-1/2"). 3 volumes. Raw linen with red calf spine labels. Profusely illustrated with photos ground plans and drawings. In near fine condition, with some very minor foxing to the spines, and on the back cover of the third volume. Still in the original publisher's cardboard shipping container. Few early medieval documents have been studied as intensively in recent years as the architectural scheme known as the Plan of St. Gall. And few possess the broad imaginative scope of this ancient parchment, drawn between 820 and 830 A.D. to guide Benedictine monastic planning in the age of Charlemagne. In 1979 the University of California Press published a three-volume study, "The Plan of St. Gall". Pro Helvetica decided to introduce the Plan to an even broader audience through an exhibition designed to travel in the United States and Europe. Designed by Ernest Born, this book not only compliments that exhibition but stands independently of it. A succinct text captures the essence of the Plan in its historical, cultural, and spiritual contexts. It is supported by over 100 illustrations, many in color, reproduced from the three volumes of "The Plan of St. Gall" to the same exacting standards of typography, printing, and paper. Also included is a note on architectural models by Price and Born, illustrated with color photographs of the site model of the Plan of St. Gall. -- From publisher's description. Contents: v. 1. Previous literature, origin, purpose & [i.e. and] special problems ; The monastery church ; The cloisters and the abbot's house ; The monastic polity; v. 2. The guest and the service buildings -- The plan of St. Gall and its effect on later monastic planning; v. 3. Synopsis of the work : a schematic outline of the work -- List of illustrations, volumes I, II, III -- Appendix I: A catalogue of the explanatory titles of the Plan of St. Gall / by Walter Horn -- Appendix II: Preface / by W.H. [i.e. Walter Horn] ; The customs of Corbie -- consuetudines corbeienses / a translation of the directives of Adalhard of Corbie by Charles W. Jones -- Appendix III: Preface / by W.H. ; The significance of the Plan of St. Gall to the history of measurement -- a link with Roman, and English and American systems / by A. Hunter Dupree -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Chronological table -- Index to Volume I, II, III -- Corrigenda, errata -- Colophon. Near fine in publisher's shipping box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Plan of St. Gall: A Study of the Architecture & Economy of & Life in a Paradigmatic Carolingian Monastery. With. a Translation into English. of the Directives of Adalhard, 753-826, the Ninth Abbot of Corbie, and with a Note. on the Significance of the Plan of St. Gall to the History of Measurement. [In Three Volumes]
• Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520035909
• ISBN 13: 9780520035904
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition.
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Since 2005, CMRS at UCLA. has been the administrative home to the St. Gall project. It is now a produced in three large volumes. The project's departure point is an extraordinary drawing of an ideal monastery, known as the Plan of St. Gall. Created in the early ninth century, the Plan is the oldest surviving visualization of a building complex produced in the Middle Ages, containing ground plans for some forty buildings, ranging from a church, monastic school, abbot's residence, and infirmary, to such mundane elements as a water mill, stables, and poultry houses. The project has been generously supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.