Main entry:

Price, Lorna, author.

Title & Author:

The Plan of St. Gall in brief / by Lorna Price.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1982.

Description:

xii, 99 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The manuscript -- Some questions and problems -- Origins -- Index to building numbers -- Drawing -- Services of the plan -- The church -- The monks' cloister -- Novitiate and infirmary -- Health services -- Abbot's house -- House for distinguished guests and its kitchen, bake, and brewhouse -- Hospice for pilgrims and paupers and its kitchen, bake, and brewhouse -- Workshop and quarters for abbey craftsmen and artisans -- The monks' bake and brewhouse -- Grain storage, grinding, and crushing -- The monks' orchard and garden and gardener's house -- The fowlkeeper's house and henhouse and goosehouse -- The house for sheep and shepherds. Standard house and variants -- Prehistoric prototypes -- Ensuing events -- A comparison.

Summary:

Few early medieval documents have been studied as intensively in recent years as the architectural scheme known as the Plan of St. Gall. And few possess the broad imaginative scope of this ancient parchment, drawn between 820 and 830 A.D. to guide Benedictine monastic planning in the age of Charlemagne. In 1979 the University of California Press published a three-volume study, "The Plan of St. Gall". Pro Helvetica decided to introduce the Plan to an even broader audience through an exhibition designed to travel in the United States and Europe. Designed by Ernest Born, this book not only compliments that exhibition but stands independently of it. A succinct text captures the essence of the Plan in its historical, cultural, and spiritual contexts. It is supported by over 100 illustrations, many in color, reproduced from the three volumes of "The Plan of St. Gall" to the same exacting standards of typography, printing, and paper. Also included is a note on architectural models by Price and Born, illustrated with color photographs of the site model of the Plan of St. Gall. -- From publisher's description.

ISBN:

0520047362 (hardback)
9780520047365 (hardback)
0520043340 (paperbackbk)
9780520043343 (paperback)

Subject:

Horn, Walter, 1909-. Plan of St. Gall.
Born, Ernest. Plan of St. Gall.
Kloster St. Gallen.
Bénédictins Suisse Saint-Gall.
Sankt Gallen (Abadía)
Kloster Sankt Gallen
Benedictines Switzerland Sankt Gallen.
Sankt Gallen Kloster.
Sankt Galler Klosterplan
Abbeys Switzerland.
Abbeys Switzerland Saint Gall.
Abbayes Suisse Saint-Gall.
Abbayes Suisse.
Religion
Abbeys
Plan
Abbeys Switzerland Sankt Gallen Buildings.
Saint Gall (Switzerland) Religion History.
Saint-Gall (Suisse) Histoire religieuse.
Sankt Gallen Edificios, estructuras, etc.
Switzerland Saint Gall
Switzerland

Form/genre:

History
Plan

Added entries:

Horn, Walter, 1908-1995. Plan of St. Gall.
St. Galler Klosterplan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 23849
Call No.: X0000287 10418; ID:88-B10267
Status: Available