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The Plan of St. Gall

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

VOLUME I

                                                                 
page 
viii  For Florenz Deuchler read * Florens Deuchler. 
3, 79, 163  For Edgar Lehman read * Edgar Lehmann. 
For Moriz Heyne read * Moritz Heyne. 
For the date, 1821, read * 821. 
26n7  For irregendein read * irgendein. 
36, fig. 24.B  The detail, 27.B (see page 38), is located midway between 27.A and 28.A. 
45, text, and fig. 34, caption  For Brewers' Granary [39] read * Brewers' Granary [30]. 
73  For Emil Lesne read * Emile Lesne. 
74  The diagram, WHAT SCHEME OF WATERWAYS? is figure 53. 
75, fig. 53, caption  For SCALE 1/8 ORIGINAL SIZE read * SCALE 1/16 ORIGINAL SIZE (1:3072). Note in red in fig. 53 is
correct. 
83, text table  For dodrans = 9/21 read * dodrans = 9/12. 
For dextans = 10/12 or 1/6 read * dextans = 10/12 or 5/6. 
88, fig. 64, top of grid  For 42 half-units . . . = 32 1/2 feet read * 42 half-units . . . = 52 1/2 feet. 
90, fig. 64.B, left of grid  For 9 units = 45 feet read * 9 units = 22 1/2 feet. 
94n50, 137n40, 163n7, 171n25  For Rave, 1957 read * Rave, 1958. 
114, fig. 71.B  R.F. scale is 1:2500. 
156, fig. 105, caption  For Diechmann read * Deichmann. For Weisbaden read * Wiesbaden. 
158, fig. 107  For R.F. scale 1:192 read * 1:384. 
183, fig. 129  R.F. scale is 1:20. 
186, fig. 136, caption  For Thummler read * Thümmler. 
193, fig. 151.B  R.F. scale is 1:300. 
205, fig. 165  R.F. scale is about 1:475. 
217, fig. 177.B, caption  For GREAT HARMONDSWORTH read * HARMONDSWORTH. 
230  For Richard D. Crocker read * Richard L. Crocker. 
256, fig. 202, caption  For FUHRER read * FÜHRER. 
287  For Cajus Agricola read * Georgius Agricola. 
287n180  For Schmithals and Klemm, 1958, 21,
read * H. C. and L. H. Hoover, trans., London, 1912, 466. 
291, fig. 239, caption  For the date, 313, read * 113. 
311  For ECCLESIA read * ECLESIA. 
323  For Jules Leeman read * Jules Leemann. 
325, paragraph 3  For the date, 653, read * 635. 
325, paragraph 5  For Fulrad of St. Denis read * Fulrad, abbot of St.-Denis. 
*

NOTE: CORRIGENDA AND ERRATA

CORRIGENDA: Reference to north orientation of certain illustrations (i.e., to
the reader's left or right, or above or below the illustration cited) is made
assuming that the book is being held in normal reading position and not
broadside.

ERRATA: These are entered only when such items, were they allowed to pass
unnoted, would convey confusion or incorrect information.

Owing to considerations related to printing schedule, we presently hold no
errata notations for Volume III, but we do not therefore imagine that unlike
the first two, it may be perfect.

W. H., E. B.

‡ Reference plans: for street layout, Stadt St. Gallen, 1964 (1:5000), Art.
Institut Orell Füssli AG, Zürich; for the Baroque church, to give accurate
delineation of the ground plan outline, a plan (undated) procured by Walter
Horn in a visit to the Vermessungsamt, Rathaus, St. Gallen.

§ Nine bays of spanning arches, supported on eight columns, comprise the
north and south arcades of the nave of the Church of the Plan of St. Gall.
The westerly pair of columns define column range 4 and range 5. (The
system is illustrated above, fig. 526, p. 20.) The line drawn between span
centers, referred to above, is the range line centered between column ranges
4 and 5.



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VOLUME III

                                 
page 
90, fig. 527  The printed image is shown approximately the size of the original folio. 
128, Latin verse in caps,
line 6 
For RAPID read ★ RAPIT. 
128, text, right col. line 6  For Invited read ★ invited (initial letter, lower case) 
128, right col., end  After the four-line lament of GALATHEA, add its counterpart reading: 
PHYLLIS: 
Who sorrows not, I ask, for a soul to heaven uplifted 
Whose corpse returns to ashes, covered by a marble slab? 
Around this globe where a virtuous name spreads everywhere, 
Why should the stock of emperors be food for worms? . . . 
132, caption, line 7  For rubic read ★ rubric. 
140, Roman measure diagrams  HEREDIUM diagram is fig. 540.B; CENTURIUM diagram is fig. 540.C. 
For 540.B read ★; 540.D. 
215, right col.,
8 lines up from end 
For Francisco da Bologna read ★ Francesco da Bologna. 
221-222, Index  The following entities are main entries (i.e., are not subordinated under Aachen):
Aachener Normalexemplar; Aalburg, Luxembourg; abbacomites; Abbo; abbot(s);
abbot's house; Abbot's House [13]. 
253, Index, col. 2  The entry castrum should be subordinated under the entry, Roman architecture. 
263, under NOTE, lines 4,5  For the phrase (between commas), ...and by use of a...to the broad solid stroke,...
read ★..., and by use of a double stroke composed of a single broad solid line
coupled with a very thin line parallel to the broad solid stroke,
... 

‡ During and subsequent to the completion of printing Volume III, and in the
interval between binding and publication, a cursory reading of press sheets revealed
several errors which have been collected and printed in the above addendum, for
inclusion with the Corrigenda and Errata printed on pages 264-65. By this date
errors besides those printed have been uncovered and no doubt readers will
discover others. Should a second printing ever be produced it is contemplated
that pages with errors would be printed from new corrected plates with appropriate
textual corrections.

W.H. E.B. L.P.

Set in Cloister by Halle-Cordis, printed by Kennedy-ten Bosch, San Francisco



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VOLUME II

                                                       
page 
9n14, paragraph 2  For p. 12 n. 6 read * p. 6 n. 12. 
35, fig. 298.B, in red  For caeterae columna huis ordinis read * caeterae columnae huius ordinis. 
For traebes exterioris read * trabes exterioris. 
41, fig. 294  R.F. scale is 1:300. 
43  For ex lapdie optime factam read * ex lapide optime factam. 
53, fig. 307  In red dimensional notations reading vertically, top to bottom: 
For topmost "A" read * "A/2"; 
For lower "A/2" read * "A" (i.e., transpose "A" and "A/2"). 
53, fig. 307, caption  For Ambau read * Anbau. 
67, fig. 321  R.F. scale is 1:125. 
73, fig. 325.B, caption  Arrow referred to (under figure number) is not shown. Indication of viewer's position would be approximately
at ground level of the perspective near the right edge of the page, pointing toward the lower
left corner of the page near the gutter. 
79  For oeđra öndvegi read * úoe★ra öndvegi. 
87  For NURNBERG read * NÜRNBERG. 
113, ill.II.113  In graphic scales for kilometers and miles, multiply values by 2; i.e., for 1 km. read * 2 km.; for 2 km.
read * 4 km; for 1 mi. read * 2 mi., et cetera. 
141, fig. 392  North is to the reader's left, south to the right (cf. authors' interpretation, p. 142). 
156, fig. 402  North is to the reader's left. 
174, fig. 409  North is beneath, south above the illustration. 
183, fig. 415, caption  For HORTLUS read * HORTULUS. 
190, fig. 419  North point is reversed; i.e., north is above the illustration. 
196, fig. 422  For site plan, see p. 222, fig. 436. 
224, fig. 438  North is above the illustration. 
244, fig. 457.C  Scale is 3/16 INCH = 1 FOOT; R.F. scale is 1:64. 
249, fig. 460  R.F. scale is 1:250. 
256, fig. 464  North is to the reader's left, south to the right. 
257, fig. 463  North is to the reader's left, south to the right. 
274, fig. 474  North is above the illustration. 
331, fig. 514  See note below. 

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE, FIG. 514

This illustration was developed long after studies for these volumes were under
way, and at a point when the authors became curious concerning how the red
trace of the parchment plan of Gozbertus would appear if it were delineated on a
modern cadastral plan in the area of the present great Baroque church at St. Gall,
with both plans shown at the same scale.

A drawing of the cadastral plan, shown in buff color, was madeat scale 1/64 in. =
1 ft. (1:768), convenient for drafting and which, reduced by one half to 1:1536,
composed nicely at book page size. Furthermore, the scale, 1:768, one fourth of
the size of the Plan
(1:192), had been used for much other documentation previously
for this work, and facilitated procedure in technical preparation. Next, a photographic
print of the red outline plan was made on transparent film
("film positive")
precisely to the scale of the cadastral plan drawing. This permitted the image
made on transparent film to be positioned in exact register visually with the
cadastral plan drawing beneath it, the axes of the two churches coinciding and

with the tomb of St. Gall superimposed over the altar of the Baroque church
(marked by cross printed in buff color).

The graphic inquiry revealed impressive visual relationships of planning layout,
and although the study was pursued objectively without anticipation or expectation
of any particular kind, still there were surprises. Further discussion is not appropriate
in this brief note. However, one condition is mentioned here, since at the
scale of fig. 514 it is not in full evidence: where a line
(N—S) between the centers
of the middle bays of the nave arcade
§ intersects the axis common to both churches
(E—W), it marks a point that appears to define the geometric center of the circular
curve of the bulking form of the Baroque church that is one of its distinguishing
architectural features.

No inference is drawn from this observation, but it does not seem reasonable to
assume that so many conditions and relationships as can be seen in fig. 514 are

all merely accidental coincidences inherent in a drafting exercise of combining two
images at identical scale.

E. B.

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