Hartker from St. Gallen

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Dedication picture of the Hartker antiphonary: Hartker presents St. Gallus his work

Hartker von St. Gallen (* before 965 ; † 1011 in St. Gallen ) lived as a Rekluse at St. Gallen Monastery . Ekkehard IV mentions him in the monastery chronicle. As the author of the Hartker antiphonary (in two volumes: Cod. Sang. 390; Cod. Sang. 391) he went down in the history of music and liturgy.

Life

Triggered by the monastic renewal of his time and the role models Gallus and Wiborada , Hartker chose the strictly ascetic - hermitic life of a recluse and lived for thirty years in a cell with a bricked-up entrance in today's St. Gallen district of St. Georgen . It is unclear whether he was a member of the convent of St. Gallen. According to a note from the monastery chronicler Ekkehard IV, his cell was so low that he could not stand upright. He was mainly occupied with copying books.

Only the Hartker antiphonary named after him has survived , which contains the St. Gallen Office and is decorated with six miniatures and elaborate initial ornaments. It is kept in the St. Gallen Abbey Library. The dedication picture in the first half volume shows Hartker how, as a writer, he wrote his book to St. Gallus presented. The handwriting is considered a masterpiece of calligraphy , Illumination and neume notation and as a significant liturgy historical source for the specifics of the St. Gallen Choral care around the turn of the millennium.

Web links

Commons : Hartker antiphonary  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. first mentioned as Rekluse 980