The Plan of St. Gall a study of the architecture & economy of & life in a paradigmatic Carolingian monastery |
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GOZBERT'S IDENTITY
There is general agreement that the "Gozbertus" to whom
the dedicatory legend is addressed is the abbot of this
name who presided over the monastery of St. Gall from
816 to 836, and who around 830 initiated a building program
whose aim was totally to reconstruct this old and
venerable settlement.[54]
That the Plan was made for St. Gall
is suggested not only by the fact that it has been in the
possession of the library of this monastery ever since the
ninth century, but also by the more explicit evidence that
the high altar of the church of the Plan is dedicated jointly
to St. Mary and St. Gall (altare scaē mariae & sc̄ī galli).[55]
An earlier view of Keller's (1844, 11) and Meyer von Knonau's
(1879, 523), according to which the Cozertus named in the transmittal
note was identical with Gozbert the Younger (a nephew of Abbot
Gozbert of St. Gall who is frequently mentioned in documents since 816)
is now generally abandoned; cf. Duft, in Studien, 1962, 42-43.
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