The Stammheim missal / Elizabeth C. Teviotdale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teviotdale, Elizabeth C. (Elizabeth Cover), 1955-

Contributor:

J. Paul Getty Museum.

Series:

Getty Museum studies on art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stammheim missal.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, German--Germany--Lower Saxony.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, German.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--Germany--Lower Saxony.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval.

Michaeliskirche (Hildesheim, Germany).

Illumination of books and manuscripts--California--Los Angeles.

Illumination of books and manuscripts.

J. Paul Getty Museum.

California--Los Angeles.

Germany--Lower Saxony.

Physical Description:

94 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Los Angeles, CA : J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.

Summary:

The Stammheim Missal is one of the most visually dazzling and theologically ambitious works of German Romanesque art. Containing the text recited by the priest and the chants sung by the choir at mass, the manuscript was produced in Lower Saxony around 1160 at Saint Michael's Abbey at Hildesheim, a celebrated abbey in medieval Germany. This informative volume features color illustrations of all the manuscript's major decorations. The author surveys the manuscript, its illuminations, and the circumstances surrounding its creation, then explores the tradition of the illumination of mass books and the representation of Jewish scriptures in Christian art. Teviotdale then considers the iconography of the manuscript's illuminations, identifies and translates many of its numerous Latin inscriptions, and finally considers the missal and its visually sophisticated and religiously complex miniatures as a whole.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

089236615X

OCLC:

44969499