The Gottschalk Antiphonary
Music and Liturgy in Twelfth-Century Lambach

Photographic reconstruction and analysis of a twelfth-century liturgical manuscript from the Austrian monastery in Lambach.

Lisa Fagin Davis (Author)

9780521592499, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 24 February 2000

334 pages, 80 b/w illus. 4 tables
24.4 x 17 x 1.9 cm, 0.73 kg

"Well-written and...meticulously researched..." Speculum

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Palaeography [history of writing CFL], Medieval & Renaissance music [c 1000 to c 1600 AVGC2]