Carolingian Monastic Reform and The Plan of St. Gall: Part II - The Plan

The arrangement of altars provides a significant clue to the interconnection between these structures, and a subject which will occupy us in the third and final article in this series.

NOTES:

1 -Horn, 15-20. The plan is referred to as exemplata, a copy, in the dedication. Horn offers as further evidence of copying three considerations: lack of underdrawing, angular distortions resulting from page shifts, and minor inaccuracies combined with "a fluid style not apt to be found in the work of a man who went through the developmental labor of this demanding task." (p.15).

2 -Horn suggests that the discovery of the foundations of the Carolingian cathedral of Cologne made provide a key to the church's prototype (p.27-30). More on this below.

3 -Horn notes that Bischoff identifies this scribe as a member of the Reichenau community who also copied the Vita sancti Bonifatii on folios 2v-19 of Codex Augiensis CXXXVI now at Karlsruhe (p.13).

4 -This is possible the third hand. Another work, using a similar color and technique, almost contemporary with the Plan is Codex Rhenaugensis LXXIII. This manuscript, now in the Zentralbibliothek (Zurich), was also composed at Reichenau and contains the plans of early pilgrimage churches in the Holy Land. Horn, p. 54-55.

5 -Horn, vol. I, p.77, Walter Boeckelmann, "Der Widerspruch im St. Galler Klosterplan." Zeitschrift fuer schweizerische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, XVI (1956) : 125-134. As Horn notes, "practically every leading architectural historian . . . has had his say, no unanimity has yet been reached." vol. I, p. 77.

6 -Ab oriente in occicente longit ped CC. traditionally transcribed as :Ab oriente in occidentem longitudo pedum CC. Horn notes that the alternate translation, ab oriente in occidentem longitudine peda ducenties, meaning "from east to west, in length, measure two hundred times" offered by Adolf Reinle relies on faulty textual exegesis and method of determining scale which did not exist before the French Revolution. Horn, vol. I, p. 81.

7 -Walter Boeckelmann, "Der Widerspruch im St. Galler Klosterplan." Zeitschrift fuer schweizerische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, XVI (1956), Tafel 52.

8 -For extensive discussions on church design and altar arrangement consult Joseph Braun, S.J., Der Christliche Altar in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung, volume I & II,(Munich : Alte Meister Guenter Koch & Co., 1924), Wolfgang Braunfels, Monasteries of Western Europe, (New York : Thames & Hudson, 1972), Robert Cabie,

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