The Stammheim Missal (Getty Museum Studies on Art)

The Stammheim Missal Was Relatively Inaccessible Until The Getty Museum Acquired It In 1997. With This Publication, In Which All The Major Illumination Is Reproduced In Color, Both Scholars And Museum Visitors Can Appreciate The Missal More Fully As One Of The Outstanding Monuments Of Medieval Art. Created In And For The North German Monastery Of Saint Michael At Hildesheim, The Missal Preserves The Text And Music Of The Abbey's Religious Ritual, And Its Illumination Expresses Fundamental Christian Theology In Visual Form. Elizabeth C. Teviotdale Elucidates The Manuscript And Its Illumination Within Three Traditions: The Artistic Heritage Of The Monastery, The Illumination Of Mass Books, And The Role Of Jewish Scripture In Christian Art.--jacket. The Stammheim Missal And The Artistic Heritage Of The Monastery Of Saint Michael At Hildesheim -- Observations On Early Medieval Mass Books And Their Illumination -- Jewish Scripture In Christian Art Of The Middle Ages -- The Frontispiece Miniatures -- The Feast Miniatures And Saints Miniatures -- The Pictorial Program -- Summary Description Of The Stammheim Missal. Elizabeth C. Teviotdale. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 93). 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. "The Stammheim Missal was relatively inaccessible until the Getty Museum acquired it in 1997. With this publication, in which all the major illumination is reproduced in color, both scholars and museum visitors can appreciate the missal more fully as one of the outstanding monuments of medieval art. Created in and for the north German monastery of Saint Michael at Hildesheim, the missal preserves the text and music of the abbey's religious ritual, and its illumination expresses fundamental Christian theology in visual form. Elizabeth C. Teviotdale elucidates the manuscript and its illumination within three traditions: the artistic heritage of the monastery, the illumination of Mass books, and the role of Jewish scripture in Christian art."--BOOK JACKET. This missal from the mid-12th century was used in the Church's liturgical rites. The major illuminated pages are reproduced along with a text that explains the iconography and historical context of the manuscript. The essay explains the profound theological statements found in the imagery.