The Stammheim Missal

$20.00 at The Getty Museum.

Elizabeth C. Teviotdale The Stammheim Missal is one of the most visually dazzling and theologically ambitious works of German Romanesque art. Containing the text recited by the priest and the chants sung by the choir at mass, the manuscript was produced in Lower Saxony, probably in the 1170s at Saint Michael's Abbey at Hildesheim. This book features color reproductions of all of the manuscript's major decoration. The author surveys the manuscript, its illumination, and the circumstances surrounding its…