The Abbey Library of St. Gallen (Switzerland) held a unique architectural drawing, which is known in the cultural and historical research under the name Plan of Saint Gall (Codex Sangallensis 1092). Specifically, on a 112 x 77 cm, composed of five parts parchment surface in red lines the outline painted by about 52 monastic buildings and provided with numerous inscriptions. The interest in this manuscript is not only in professional circles enormously, many inquisitive minds - tourists as well as school and university students - are from this unique, albeit enigmatic testimony of early medieval ideas for centuries, as the monastery plan through his pictorial publication learned collection in scientific research, Charmed. In 1704 they published the monastery plan in the form of an engraving, but at a reduced size (30 x 43.5 cm). 1844 put Ferdinand Keller improved playback in the form of a lithograph before - for technical reasons, however, not quite in its original size. This reproduction remained for the next hundred years basis for all further scientific discussions. In 1952 to produce the first facsimile, so a full-size eight-color offset printing, the monastery plan succeeded. This was followed in 1998 a new edition. The progress in the digital and web-based technologies made it possible at the beginning of the 21st century, to digitize the large-format manuscript and to provide the high resolution in the Internet. Thus the great world public an even more convenient access to the early medieval drawing was made possible.
...MoreReview Thomas Horst (2016) Review of "Der St.Galler Klosterplan: Faksimile, Begleittext, Beischriften und Übersetzung". Imago Mundi: A Review of Early Cartography (pp. 102-102).
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