Tuotilo

Tuotilo of St. Gallen, in the older literature called predominantly Tutilo of St. Gallen or Tutilo, (c. 850; ? † April 27 (also March 28 ) 913 (also 915 ) in St. Gallen) was a monk in the monastery of St. Gall.

Life

About life Tuotilos is not much Profound known. On the one hand there is a rather anecdotal and literary source in the descriptions of Ekkehard IV in the history of the monastery of St. Gall, the Casus Sancti Galli. [ ADB 1] It is Tuotilo together with Notker Balbulus and Ratpert as students Isos in the Seven called liberal arts. The three monks were by Ekkehard close friends. Tuotilo is portrayed as a muscular man with a clear voice. He is also highlighted as a poet, musician, painter, goldsmith and creator of fine carvings especially the ivory tablets of the Gospel Longum.

On the other hand can be found in the records of the St. Gallen monastery nine mentions Tuotilos in different functions.

Tuotilo has never been officially canonized, or even beatified, but was nevertheless to about the 17th century. worshiped in St. Gallen and the surrounding area by way of a Volkskanonisation almost as a saint. [EP 1] still be found in the St. Galler Collegiate Church is a representation of Tuotilo as a monk with palette and brush. [EP 2] The chapel of St. Catherine had the nickname St. Tuotilo or simply St. Güetelen, which according to EC Ruffled a variant of Tutilo is. [EP 3] [ EGR 5]

In Gustav Schwab there is an anecdote about a confrontation with Tuotilos Sindolf based on Ekkehard Report: Sindolf secretly overheard before the window a conversation between the three fellow monks. When the remarkable three this away Notker in the church and Ratpert goes to the house to beat Sindolf with a whip. Meanwhile Tuotilo has opened the window and pulls Sindolf hard on the hair. The hurrying due to the outcry monks he explained, than to realize that Sindolf is the victim: Woe is me, that I have laid my hand to the Bishop confidant.

Ekkehard describes a wide range of travel Tuotilos in monastery affairs. He had worked among other things as a buyer of substances in Mainz and as an artist in Metz. [ JDRS 1]

Work

In the codices Sangallenses there are still some works that are attributed in whole or in part Tuotilo.

Here is a selection:

• St. Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 53, bound in ivory for the Gospel Longum. [ AvE 1] This ivory tablets are probably the most important carving Tuotilos. [ EGR 6]
• St. Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 382, untitled. [ GS 1] This codex contains, among other things tropics of Tuotilo.
• St. Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 484, St. Gallen Tropar. [ BMVs 1] This manuscript contains the well-known, among other things cantandus Hodie est ... ( p. 13 to p. 17). [ EGR 7]
• St. Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 546, Collectio S. Gallensis troporum et sequentiarum [ GS 2]

Tuotilo has been active in various artistic fields by Ekkehard.

He lifts him in particular emerged as a major writer of the tropics. Since tropics, unlike the sequences were not associated generally with an author's name, it is usually not easy to bring Tuotilo with a specific trope in context. We shall therefore refer only representative on the Weihnachtstropus Hodie cantandus which is generally attributed at least in part Tuotilo. Tuotilo not only has written tropics, but according to Ekkehard itself makes music (harp and vocals) and students given music lessons. [ EGR 8] [ KHW 1]

Ekkehard boasts Tuotilo also as a painter and sculptor ( sculptors, carvers ). In addition to his surviving until today carvings on ivory tablets of the Gospel Longum he is said to have adorned an altar in Mainz and does a very similar job in Metz. None of the latter works is retained. [ EGR 9]

Emperor Charles III. is said to have regretted, according to Ekkehard that such a talent is hidden behind convent walls, he would rather have had Tuotilo in its wake. [ EVSG 1] [ 2 JDRS ]

Sources and References

• Ekkehart of Sankt Gallen, IV (980-1056): Casus Sancti Galli, St. Gall Monastery stories, Translator by Hans F. Haefele, 4th edition, Darmstadt 2002, ISBN 3-534-01417-0, Cod Sang. 615

• Anton von Euw: The St. Galler book art from the 8th to the late 11th century. ( Monasterium Sancti Galli 3 ) St. Gallen, 2008 St. Gallen, accessed on 23 October 2009, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 53

• Beat Matthias von Scarpatetti: The manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Vol 2: Section III / 2: Codices 450-546: Liturgica, Libri precum, German prayer books, Spritualia, Misikhandschriften 9th - 16th Century ( in press), accessed on 23 October 2009, St Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 484

• Gustav Scherrer: directory of manuscripts from the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Hall 1875, accessed on 23 October 2009, St Gallen, Abbey Library, Cod Sang. 382 and 546

Literature and References

• Hannes Steiner: Tuotilo in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland
• Gerold Meyer von Knonau: Tutilo. In: General German Biography (ADB ). Volume 39, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1895, pp. 28-30.

• Ernst Gerhard Ruffled: Tuotilo: Monk and artists; Contributions to the knowledge of his personality. St. Gallen, 1953, essay for obtaining the doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the University of Zurich

• Erwin Poeschel: The Art Monuments of the canton of St. Gallen. Volume III, Basel 1961

• Karl Heinrich Woerner: History of Music: a study and reference book. 8th edition, new Edit. by Wolfgang Gratzer, eds Lenz Meierott, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-27812-8

• Alban Butler: Butler's lives of the saints. Ed. , Rev. and suppl. by Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater, part 1: January, February, March, 2nd ed, London 1956

• John fragrance and Rudolf Schnyder: The ivory covers of the Abbey Library of St. Gallen. Beuron 1984, ISBN 3-87071-041-1

• Josef Mantuani: Tuotilo and the ivory carving in the " Gospel longum " ( = Cod No. 53) to St. Gallen ( = Studies on the German art history, H.27 ), Strasbourg 1900.