Christopher,

Here's a larger, perhaps more viewable image. The MS is actually from Troyes, Bib. mun. 2273. It is, however, a Parisian MS, done at St. Maur-des-Fossés about 1100. Its important contents is an illustrated Life of St. Maurus, the disciple of St. Benedict. (There are only two that I know of; the other being the famous Vat lat 1202 from Monte Cassino c 1070.) 2273 was very nicely released on a CD by the Bnf. about a year ago. I am preparing a study of it at the present time.

http://www.kzoo.edu/history/Wickstrom/bene2.jpg

best,

JBW

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> Dear Listmembers, I've been looking at a late 11th c. Parisian MS which

in one folio seems to depict St. Benedict as a priest: he is receiving a

new novice while wearing a cope (actually it looks more like an Orthodox

chasuble (phelonion), an alb and most important, a clerical stole down

his front.

> http://www.kzoo.edu/history/Wickstrom/benedict.jpg

Dear John,

i know less than nothing about clerical costuming (which is to say that i

think i know something, but that something is most likely wrong); however, i

do have an avid interest in what was going on figure style-wise in the

Parisian region in the late 11th c.

your illumination looks vaguely familiar but i can't place it.

where's it from?

what's the (B.n., i presume) shelf number?

i'd be interested in seeing an actually legible .jpg of it; have you tried to

run it down on any of the Ministre de Kultur websites?

it is ironic that the B.n. mss. are, as best i can make out, the most poorly

documented on the web, at least so far.

while the mss. in the regional libraries are being "published" on the web with

some seriousness, it seems.

best,

christopher

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