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The plan of St. Gall : a study of the architecture & economy of, & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery / by Walter Horn and Ernest Born ; with a foreword by Wolfgang Braunfels ; a translation into English by Charles W. Jones of the directives of Adalhard, 753-826, the ninth abbot of Corbie ; and with a note by A. Hunter Dupree on the significance of The Plan of St. Gall to the history of measurement.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Horn, Walter, 1908-1995.
- Series:
- California studies in the history of art 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kloster St. Gallen.
- St. Galler Klosterplan.
- Abbeys--Switzerland.
- Abbeys.
- Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
- Monasticism and religious orders.
- Physical Description:
- 3 v. : ill., map, plans, facsims. ; 37 cm. & plan 96 x 51 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1979.
- Notes:
- "Index to building numbers of plan": v. 1, xxv-xxvii, in English, German and French.
- The accompanying plan is reproduced from Ms. 1092 in the Stiftsbibliothek, St. Gall, Switzerland.
- "Corrigenda and errata addendum" inserted in v. 3.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: v. 3, p. 167-200.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Virginia Armentrout.
- Contains:
- Adalard, Saint, -826. Consuetudines corbeienses. English
- ISBN:
- 0520017242 (set) 0520035909 (v.1) 0520035917 (v.2) 0520035925 (v.3)
- OCLC:
- 5854135
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