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Thank you so much for this information (apologies for the delayed response - my medieval-religion mailbox disappeared off my computer for a few days, and I just noticed the problem today.) The bleeding side wound of the Rood is particularly helpful.
The image is from a visionary sermon collection _El Conhorte_ by the Castilian mystic Juana de la Cruz (c. 1510). In the sermon for the feast day of the Holy Cross, she describes an angelic procession in heaven led by Jesus carrying a special cross. Jesus’ cross has images on each end of a lion, a lamb, and a dove, as well as jugs or flagons hanging on the nails and a serpent at its base.
Thank you!
Jessica Boon
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Dear Jessica
Judging from literary evocations or interpretations of the crucifixion, I would
regard this as a rather uncommon image. For the first part of your description,
"the cross with blood coming out", yet without a container or containers
receiving this blood, I can point you to Ps.-Jerome, Commentarius in Marcum, PL
30,639C: "hic stillavit sanguis de ligno" (attributed by B. Bischoff,
Wendepunkte in der lateinischen Exegese im Frühmittelalter [1954), in: id.,
Mittelalterliche Studien, I, Stuttgart 1986, pp. 205-273, see pp. 257-259, to
Cummianus/Cummeanos of Durrow, saec. VII med.) and, of course, the Dream of the
Rood, where the Rood is bleeding from its right side ("þæt hit ærest ongan /
swætan on þā swīðran healfe" vv. 19s.). The bleeding cross of Christ has been
associated with bleeding trees as one of portents of the last judgment, cf. IV
Esra 5,5 "Et de ligno sanguis stillabit", Epist. of Barnabas 1,12 "καί όταν έκ
ξύλου αίµα στάξη", in medieval times for instance the ME Quindecim signa ante
judicium v. 101 "þe tren sul blede". Bleeding trees are frequent in pagan Greek
and Latin traditions (e.g. Virgil, Aen. 3,19ss.; Ovid, Metam. 2,340ss.) and have
been reinterpreted within Christian contexts by Dante (Inf. XIII) and others, a
very elaborate (though post-medieval) allegory of this kind can be found in
Calderon's 'auto' La humildad coronada (or Auto de las plantas, de los árboles)
staged in 1644 at Toledo (see esp. vv. 1165ss., ed. Ignacio Arellano, Autos
sacramentales completos 38, 2002, p. 121ss.)
Jugs or flagons, however, receiving the 'sanguis stillans de ligno' I have not
yet seen. Maybe you can tell us where you have found this image?
Kind regards, O.
Otfried Lieberknecht
D-48157 Münster
Dorbaumstr. 86
Tel. +49 (0) 152 5618 1234
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> On 30 March 2014 at 23:23 "Boon, Jessica A." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> Greetings. I am seeking information as to whether there are medieval images
> or texts either depicting the crucifixion or of the cross alone that show the
> cross with jugs or flagons hanging on the nails.
>
> I am familiar with the iconographic tradition showing angels catching the
> blood from Jesus' nailed hands in chalices, but I wonder if the more stark
> image of just the cross with blood coming out into some kind of container is
> at all common. (Arma Christi images would also be helpful).
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> Thank you in advance for any leads!
>
> Jessica A. Boon
> Assistant Professor, Medieval/Early Modern Christianity
> Dept. of Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
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