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

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."--The Burlington Magazine

• 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