Le manuscrit composite B.M. Tours, MS 193: un codex révélateur, au XIIe siècle, d’une mémoire culturelle identitaire collective
Aurélie Mercier
The scriptorium of Saint-Martin Tours was a center artistic production (architecture, sculpture, epigraphy, wall painting, manuscripts), marked by the splendors Alcuin’s years: codex B.M. Tours, MS 193 is part this tradition. A composite manuscript (sacramentary 1180, antiphonary thirteenth century, historical documents 13th-14th c.), it witness to experimentations in constitution missals. Examination reveals Carolingian inheritance, while preserving characteristics its time. It gathers calligraphic, textual, liturgical, and iconographic memory appropriate for community, contemporary elements, revealing collective cultural identity. embodies Saint-Martin’s Memoria, glorifying place origin, restoring, twelfth untold post-Alcuin prestige.
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