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On Monday, December 5, 2005, at 7:33 pm, Phyllis wrote:
> Today (6. December) is the feast day of:
>
> Nicholas of Myra (Santa Claus) (4th cent.)
An important saint, with some notable churches. We might start with:
http://www.immaginidellasardegna.it/chiese/galleria6/pages/12San_Nicola.html
http://www.immaginidellasardegna.it/chiese/galleria6/pages/13san_nicola.html
This, for those who may not have recognized it right off, is the early
twelfth-century (ca. 1114) ex-monastic church of San Nicola (Nicoḷ ) di
Trullas, near today's Semestene (SS) in the former judicate of Torres.
'judicate' of course tells one that we're in Sardinia, and the chief
significance of this place is that the Camaldolese monastery to which
this church belonged has left us a famous cartulary, the _condaghe_ of
San Nicola di Trullas, now ms. 278 of the Biblioteca universitaria di
Cagliari. An important historical source and one of the early monuments
of the Sardinian language, this may not be as ancient as the
Strasbourg/Strassburg Oaths but it is nonethless a major witness to the
emergence of one of western Europe's medieval languages. A page of text
(fol. 62v) is reproduced here:
http://dobc.unipv.it/scrineum/biblioteca/Cau/tav5.jpg
This is from the second quarter of the twelfth century and
thus only slightly younger than the church in whose immediate vicinity
it was penned. An apse view of the church is here:
http://www.ignaziogrecu.com/images/foto/Romanico_sardo/trullas2.jpg
and a page with a number of expandable thummnail views is here:
http://web.tiscali.it/romanico/c173.htm
In Sassari (SS) the cathedral is dedicated to N. This is an Aragonese
"gothic" structure of the late fifteenth and very early sixteenth
centuries built on the site of a thirteenth-century "romanesque" church
and subsequently much modified. The best exterior view of the nave I
could find is this:
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/guysca/images/sassari_duomo_san__nicola.jpg
Thi is a clearer view of part of it:
http://www.lamiasardegna.it/web/000/foto.asp?url=201/013
The base of the belltower is a remnant of the earlier church:
http://www.italiantourism.com/images/prew_2100000102778.jpg
An interior view:
http://www.diocesi.sassari.it/internoduomo.html
and a medieval interior niche with an early modern image of saint
Antiochus of the Sulcis.
One of this church's treasures is the fourteenth-century Madonna del Bosco:
http://www.publivideo.it/elenchi/ss/sassari.htm
Here she is in her niche above the main altar:
http://www.diocesi.sassari.it/madbosco.html
More tomorrow, perhaps.
Best,
John Dillon
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