Postlogium Sugerianum
Erwin Panofsky
This little postscript to my edition and translation of Suger's writings on the abbey church St.-Denis its art treasures1 must begin with a loud pater, peccavi. Misled by previous references, even in comparatively recent otherwise reliable Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters M. Manitius (IX, 2, vol. 3, Munich, 1931, p. 603), I had assumed that original manuscripts De Consecratione were lost. entirely overlooked fact, now kindly brought attention Dr. Charles J. Liebman, Jr., both slightly mutilated twelfth-century manuscript formerly owned C.-A. Petau, from which bulk text was published Duchesne 1640, fifteenth-century preserved St.-Victor, Mabillon supplied missing conclusion some forty yean later, are still existence identified A. Luchaire as early 1899.2 The earlier (entitled “Suggerius Abbas Sancti Dionisii de Ecclesia se aedificata”) forms part Cod. Reg. 571 Vatican Library (fols. 119r-129v); later one (directly copied Reginensis, less easily legible, bearing rubrics “Hic incipit dedicacio ecclesie” “De renovatione ecclesie beati Dionysii”) is inserted into MS no. 1030 Bibliothèque l'Arsenal 137r-143v, 81r-82v). On basis Arsenal manuscript, has already given “corrections et compléments” previously established. But order atone for sin omission — view fact Luchaire's article not readily accessible many places shall repeat them here add few more, being real interest archaeologists.3
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