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The Plan of St. Gall

a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery

Horn, Walter William

THE PLAN OF ST. GALL

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V.9.3

THE SCHOOLMASTER'S LODGING

The Master of the Outer School was not accommodated
in the school building itself, but in a special lodging built
against the northern aisle of the Church, immediately adjacent
to the school. It consists of two rooms, a "living
room" (mansio scolae) furnished with a corner fireplace, a
bench, and a table,[367] and a "withdrawing" room (ejusdē
secretū), furnished with three beds (fig. 409).

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In the past literature this was consistently interpreted as mansio
capitis scolae. This may be a correct interpolation, but the word capitis
is not visible. See Keller, 1844, 25; Willis, 1848, 106; Leclercq, 1924,
col. 100.