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I could not find the book (very small) this morning, but the website's
pictures look like what I recall of the images in it.
Tom Izbicki
At 06:21 AM 4/22/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Tom,
>
>Your passing but tantalizing mention of the 'pictures you have at home'
>might perchance refer to the facsimile edition (200 copies, I understand)
>of the Vatican manuscript Rossianus 3, with the 9 pre-Angelico
>illustrations of St. Dominic's gestures of prayer? (I am told that the
>tradition is close to Florence/Bologna, not south France, as some have
>thought; Crockett would know). For those of us who are not so lucky, there
>is
><http://www.op.org/domcentral/places/stjude/txtincli.GIF>www.op.org/domcentral/places/stjude/txtincli.GIF
>for the nine miniatures on web. Leonard Boyle wrote an essay on "The ways
>of prayer of St. Dominic" in AFP 64 (1994) 5-17. He cites Schmitt and
>Trexler on prayer gestures, and also says, 'Whoever the artist was, he
>belongs to a tradition of "gestures of prayer" that has its best-known
>exponent in the Parisian theologian Peter the Chanter (d. 1197) in his
>treatise De poenitentia.'
>Luciana Cuppo Csaki
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