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Often ist "wine" as good as money ore gold: I think it is meant the
tribute of a wineyard ore the income of a certain amount of wine
people sell for the benefit of the altar, and from this sum the
clergy related to the altar and/or the things you need there are
sponsored. But my evidences for such an interpretation are from a
later time.
yours
b.k.
Vienna
Am 25. Apr.2006 um 17:49 Uhr schrieb Christopher Crockett:
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> with the List's forbearance, i have yet another unsolvable, tedious
> question.
>
>
> at the very end of a lengthy obituary notice in the cathedral's
> necrology,
> outlining his major accomplishments, St. Ivo of Chartres (d.1115)
> is said to
> have
>
> "Ad augmentadndam tabulam altaris, idem moriens C modios vini
> reliquit..."
>
> being exceptionally literal-minded, my first thought was that this
> meant that
> the saintly bishop had given goods for the *physical* enhancement
> of the altar
> table of the cathedral --some spiffy gold retable, for instance.
>
> but, upon seeing that what he gave was not just any ole piece of
> property, the
> income from the sale of which might be used to pay for such an
> artistic
> program, but rather 100 _modii_ of *wine* --and that on his
> deathbed-- i'm now
> thinking that "ad aumentandam" here has a more metaphorical meaning:
>
> at a minimum, it is a question of the "aumentation" of the stock of
> sacramental wine --which, i believe, would have been a commodity
> both always
> in need and the source of which would have been somewhat special to
> the canons
> of the cathedral.
>
> any random thoughts on this question would be appreciated.
>
> c
>
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