medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Bonnie Blackburn <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Another thought: has the initial S been cut and pasted from somewhere
else?
>>does it look like it, in this detail:
> http://www.neumann-walter.de/NW/November2007/27.11.07/35.jpg
>> ?
>>not that i can see.
> No, it doesn't look pasted. But indeed that appears to be an E underneath,
and since our deacon
is *that* what he is?
what makes you think so?
i raised the issue of his tonsure before --was "Sancti Stephani prothomartyr"
tonsured?
was he a deacon?
>is cleverly placed so he is standing within it, it is very
likely that he is original.
well, he's not "original" in the sense that the "E" is "original" --the "S"
and the figure are later additions.
i don't see why he *couldn't* have been added "later."
and, indeed, he was --at the same time as the "E" was changed to an "S", and
the first line of text erased and replaced with "e...de".
am only saying (on purely stylistic criteria, applied to the treatment of the
face and the hand) that he wasn't added by an 19th-21st c. hand.
a 9th c. hand, or an 11th c. hand, or a 12th c. hand, perhaps, but definitely
not a modern one.
>It is the red S that was painted over the initial [E].
yes.
> Very curious. Now we have a text with the wrong music, which would certainly
have been disconcerting to any singer.
that thought occurred to me, early on, but i forgot to mention it.
clearly there was, once upon a time, a completed original --text and music--
the *text* of which was then altered (for some reason), and the music left as
it was, mismatch or no with the text notwithstanding.
c
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