medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> On Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at 12:07 pm, Diana Wright wrote:
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>> I have blown the S. Susanna picture way up with Gimp, & while the
>> thing
>> Jesus is holding is still not perfectly clear, it looks like a
>> rotulus
>> to me. The thing the central woman/Mary is holding looks very like a
>>
>> Byzantine scarf/handkerchief with a decorative woven band at each end.
>>
>
> Here's the image again:
> http://tinyurl.com/23y7uy
>
> I agree with you completely about the thing that the central woman/Mary is holding. Do you have a name for it? I have been calling it a _palla_, though classical ones were much wider than either this example or the one worn by the third-century orant "La Velata" in the cemetery of Priscilla:
> http://membres.lycos.fr/siteimageedl/paleo/photos/11.jpg
> closer image (badly pinked):
> http://research.yale.edu/divdl/images/eikon/ei0350s.jpg
> or the rather longer ones held/worn by the two female figures in this fifth-century painting in the Catacombe di San Gennaro in Naples:
> http://membres.lycos.fr/siteimageedl/paleo/photos/11.jpg
>
> Best,
> John Dillo
We 15th C people call them "handkerchiefs" & refer you to the issue in
/Othello/. Not little dingies such as we know now, not big enough for
headscarves. And probably not useful for runny noses. They & sashes
become significant as gifts from Ottoman officials to Venetian or
Genoese, representing closeness or intimacy.. The Textile Museum in DC
has a large collection of them, Greek & Turkish, embroidered, sometimes
quite wonderfully.
DW
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