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From: Graham Jones <[log in to unmask]>
> You're welcome to download it, Chris!
well, consider it stolen.
there may be more illuminations from the ms on the enluminaires.fr site.
i know of no art historical study specifically devoted to the iconography of
church consecrations --but would be happy to hear of one.
>I wonder if the window is an artistic device to allow us to see the curtain
in front of the sanctuary behind which the bishop privately mortared the
relic(s) into the altar slab.
an imaginative guess, certainly.
but, alas, not completely satisfying.
why put this "window" in what appears to be the west facade?
though (one might ask) why put the main door of the building on what appears
to be the north side of the building?
the image might have been made to fit some ideosyncratic, non-"standard"
building (e.g., the abbey from which the pontifical came??) perhaps, but we
have to be quite cautious about trying to read these middlevil images of
buildings too "realistically."
still, i can't recall ever seeing such a "curtain" through a "window" in a
representation of a building...
note that the bishop who is officiating at the consecration is tonsured, but
mitreless; while there are at least three mitres visible among the the
clerical entourage behind him.
the man with the staff at the head of the group of laity is surely of some
significance.
c
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> From: Graham Jones <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Can members point to illustrations of the ritual? That in the so-called
> Lanalet pontifical (eleventh century, Bibliotheque de la Ville de Rouen, MS
> A.27 (368) fol. 2v.) http://tascphotogallery.shutterfly.com/pictures/9
> shows two tubs outside the church. I wonder if there are others?
>
>
> the bishop's crozier against the door is significant --the text calls for
him
> to bang on the door with that in order to get the portas to tolete (or
> whatever).
>
> the tubs are a mystery to me.
>
> as is the curious "window" (with curtain?) in the lower level of the wall
to
> the right of the doorway.
>
> i don't recall seeing an early pic of a church consecration before.
>
> thanks, Graham, for this Anglo-Norman example.
>
> i don't suppose you have a larger detail of it?
>
> c
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