Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION vii
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION xi
LIST OF FIGURES xvi
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xvii
INTRODUCTION 1
TEXT AND TRANSLATIONS 39
LIBER DE REBUS IN ADMINISTRATIONE SUA GESTIS 40
LIBELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLEA SANCTI DIONYSII 82
ORDINATO A.D. MCXL VEL MCXLI CONFIRMATA 122
COMMENTARY 139
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
THE TEXTS; DATES; TRANSMISSION, AND READINGS 141
PERSONS AND PLACES; UNITS OF WEIGHT AND CURRENCY 146
AUTHOR'S NOTE 146
COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBER REBUS IN ADMINISTRATION SUA GESTIS" 147
COMMENTARY UPON THE "LIBEELLUS ALTER DE CONSECRATIONE ECCLESIAE SANCTI DIONYSII" 224
COMMENTARY UPON THE "ORDINATIO" OF 1140 OR 1141 251
GLOSSARY 260
BIBLIOGRAPHIC ABBREVIATIONS 262
ADDITIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY SINCE 1945 264
INDEX 277
ILLUSTRATIONS 285

Erwin Panofsky taught until 1933 at the University of Hamburg and, later, at New York University and Princeton University, joining the faculty of the institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1935. His writings are considered among the most important of the twentieth century in art history.

Dr. Panofsky is to be congratulated on producing, for the first time in any modern language, the whole of Suger's writing on St.-Denis, an unparalleled historical, archaeological, and ecclesiological text, and one of the world's literary treasures, a central pillar of the twelfth-century renaissance. . . . This is a work of first-class importance, and destined to remain the standard edition for a long time to come.