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The Gottschalk Antiphonary Lisa Fagin Davis

The Gottschalk Antiphonary By Lisa Fagin Davis

The Gottschalk Antiphonary by Lisa Fagin Davis


Summary

This book reconstructs and studies the music, liturgy, and illustrations of a twelfth-century manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach. The manuscript was taken apart in the fifteenth century and the pages are here brought together photographically for the first time since the original manuscript was dismantled five centuries ago.

The Gottschalk Antiphonary Summary

The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach by Lisa Fagin Davis

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.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; List of figures; List of tables; 1. Introduction; 2. The Lambach scriptorium in the late twelfth century; 3. The Gottschalk Antiphonary; 4. Liturgical analysis; 5. 'Quem non praevalent' and the importance of Epiphany at Lambach; Appendices; Facsimiles; Bibliography; Liturgical indices; Index of manuscripts cited; General index.

Additional information

NPB9780521592499
9780521592499
0521592496
The Gottschalk Antiphonary: Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach by Lisa Fagin Davis
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2000-02-24
334
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