Liturgical Sequence and Decorative Crescendo in the Drogo Sacramentary
Robert G. Calkins
This study examines the decorative accentuation of Prefaces and Canon early Sacramentaries, culminating with developed sequence that appears in Drogo Sacramentary. The increased emphasis on may part be due to importation Roman Sacramentary, Gregorianum, which provided additional texts, served as a model for subsequent copies. sequential elaboration found Sacramentary manifests visual build-up also parallel heightened dramatic placed upon writings Amalarius were popular at Metz time. Moreover, architectural frames enclosing Easter Mass, forms can read altar tables or sepulchres, coincide symbolic allusions Metz. therefore contains not only an unusual sequence, but one embodies iconography its ornament, sense liturgical drama w...
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