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John
Further to your query, the Becket Leaves were acquired at a Sotheby's
auction in London in 1986 by J P Getty, who subsequently loaned them to
the British Library, where they are displayed. The leaves were
published by the British Library:
Backhouse, Janet and Christopher de Hamel, The Becket Leaves. London ,
The British Library, 1988. The leaves are reproduced in full colour at
a slightly reduced scale in the booklet.
Gordon Plumb
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To accompany Genevra's images and Gordon's glass, herewith some further
medieval
images of St. Thomas of Canterbury:
a) Two scenes of Thomas of Canterbury (T. with three monks; T. martyred
by three
knights) in a later twelfth-century psalter and hymnal for the Use of
the abbey
of Saint-Fuscien in Amiens (Amiens, Bibliothèques d'Amiens Métropole,
ms. 19,
fol. 8):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht3/IRHT_058200-p.jpg
Detail views:
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht3/IRHT_058202-p.jpg
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht3/IRHT_058201-p.jpg
b) Thomas of Canterbury (center) in the late twelfth-century apse
mosaics of the
basilica cattedrale di Santa Maria, Monreale:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/2575093180_0101779142_b.jpg
c) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a late
twelfth-century wall
painting in the iglesia de San Nicolás in Soria (Castilla y León). The
painting
is exceptional in that it shows Thomas being stabbed in the back rather
than
struck in the head or the neck (for another instance, see below at item
ee).
Linked to here are two news reports from 2009 with different views of
it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8029320.stm
http://iconosmedievales.blogspot.com/2009/11/csi-soria.html
and a brief BBC film clip showing more of the painting:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8192655.stm
Another view:
http://tinyurl.com/k5rsneh
d) Reliefs on the late twelfth-century baptismal font (ca. 1190-1200)
in the
church at Lyngsjö (Skåne län) showing Henry II, the murderers, and
Thomas of
Canterbury' martyrdom:
http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Lyngsjoe_kirke/Lyngsjoe_kirke406.htm
http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Lyngsjoe_kirke/Lyngsjoe_kirke408.htm
More views of this font are here (scroll down to Døbefont):
http://www.nordenskirker.dk/Tidligere/Lyngsjoe_kirke/Billedliste.htm
e) A late twelfth-century reliquary casket (châsse) with scenes of
Thomas of
Canterbury's martyrdom, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/27s42cx
f) Thomas of Canterbury's enthronement, martyrdom, and burial as
depicted in a
late twelfth- or early thirteenth- century fresco (variously dated to
ca. 1180
and to ca. 1200) in the iglesia de Santa María de Terrassa (_aliter_:
Santa
María d'Egara) in Terrassa (Vallés Occidental), Cataluña:
http://tinyurl.com/ngs6w9k
g) Some of the numerous Becket reliquary châsses made at Limoges in the
late
twelfth and early thirteenth centuries:
1) Ornamental reliquary châsse (ca. 1180) with scenes of the martyrdom,
now in
the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/3ykvus6
2) Another (ca. 1180-1190) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London:
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80222/the-becket-casket-casket-unknown/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Becket_casket.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/c6lz8gz
3) Two more (ca. 1190-1200 or a little later), now in the Musée
national du
Moyen Âge (Musée de Cluny), Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/3xmjq6b
and
http://tinyurl.com/2uvzkvj
Other views of these are on the page linked to at 9) below.
4) Another (ca. 1200), now at Limoges, Musée municipal de l'Évêché:
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas1.htm
5) Another (ca. 1200), now in the Museum Schnütgen (St. Cäcilien), Köln:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2354/2127843870_2dcb1823bb_o.jpg
6) Another (ca. 1205-1215), now in the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie
(musée des
Beaux-Arts), Guéret (Creuse):
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/emolimo/thomas2.htm
7) Another (ca. 1210), now in the Musée des beaux-arts in Lyon:
http://tinyurl.com/35c4jgs
8) Another (earlier thirteenth-century), now at Lucca, in the Museo
della
Cattedrale di Lucca (Museo diocesano), in the second view seen through
tinted
glass:
http://www.scuola.com/arte_storia/arte_becket/imgs/scheda_lucca.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3522/3837386490_88c39bba7c_o.jpg
Rear and side views of this object are shown toward the bottom of the
page
linked to at 9) below.
9) Other Becket reliquary châsses are shown here (images begin about a
fifth of
the way down the page):
http://tinyurl.com/9jz8ll
10) A plaque from such a reliquary châsse (late twelfth-century), now
in the
Musée du Louvre in Paris:
http://tinyurl.com/3a362o7
h) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed in a copper gilt
relief of ca.
1200 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin:
http://tinyurl.com/3o5ugnz
i) An early thirteenth-century liturgical comb from England with Becket
scenes,
now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
http://tinyurl.com/q6mno6r
j) The early thirteenth-century Becket window in the basilique
cathédrale
Notre-Dame, Chartres:
http://tinyurl.com/ye4j2u4
k) The heavily restored, seemingly early thirteenth-century Becket
window in the
north choir of the cathédrale Saint-Étienne, Sens:
http://www.medievalart.org.uk/Sens/23_Pages/Sens_Bay23_key.htm
In the arrangement shown here the image of Becket preaching
photographed by
Gordon and recently shared with this list occurs in panel 5. An article
in
_Vidimus_ offers an English-language discussion of, and some expandable
views
of, earlier thirteenth-century Beckett windows at Sens and elsewhere:
http://vidimus.org/issues/issue-14/feature/
l) The thirteenth-century Becket Leaves (four leaves from an
illustrated rhymed
Passio of Thomas of Canterbury in French; all eight sides headed by an
illumination suggestive of the work of Matthew Paris):
http://www.angelfire.com/pa4/becketleaves/
These were first published by Paul Meyer in 1885 (_Fragments d'une vie
de saint
Thomas de Cantorbéry en vers accouplés_) when they were in the
possession of
the Goethals family in Kortrijk / Courtrai, having been reserved when
the
Goethals-Vercruysse collection passed to the Openbare Bibliotheek /
Bibliothèque
municipale in that city. Does anyone know where they are now?
m) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a thirteenth-century
fresco
in Pavia's chiesa di San Lanfranco:
http://www.sanlanfranco.it/uploads/pics/w_assasinioTomasBecket.png
n) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a fresco of ca. 1260
formerly
in the episcopal place at Treviso (TV) in the Veneto and now in that
see's
diocesan museum:
http://www.warfare.likamva.in/13/Palazzo_dei_Trecento.htm
Note the domes in the representation of Canterbury cathedral. It's
thought that
the artist was familiar with San Marco in Venice.
o) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in the late
thirteenth-century
(ca. 1285-1290) Livre d'images de Madame Marie (Paris, BnF, ms.
Nouvelle
acquisition française 16251, fol. 81r):
http://tinyurl.com/ybuwf3e
p) An expandable view of Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted
in a late
thirteenth-century copy of French origin of the _Legenda aurea_ (San
Marino, CA,
Huntington Library, ms. HM 3027, fol. 12v):
http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/ds/huntington/images//000975A.jpg
q) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier
fourteenth-century
(1st or 2d quarter; attrib. to the Maître de Fauvel) copy of a
French-language
collection of saint's lives (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 183, fol. 195v):
http://tinyurl.com/yjwgs9y
r) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier
fourteenth-century
(2d quarter) copy of a French-language collection of saint's lives
(Paris, BnF,
ms. Français 185, fol. 87r):
http://tinyurl.com/ye8n7nu
s) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an illumination from
the
workshop of Richard and Jeanne de Montbaston in an earlier
fourteenth-century
copy (1348) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by
Jean de
Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 241, fol 26v):
http://tinyurl.com/ybd8l4g
t) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed on a
fourteenth-century roof
boss in the cathedral church of St Peter, Exeter:
http://tinyurl.com/ybwmumk
u) Thomas of Canterbury in his shrine as portrayed on a later
fourteenth-century
pilgrim's badge in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York:
http://tinyurl.com/nzulhg9
http://worldvisitguide.com/oeuvre/photo_ME0000022433.html
v) Thomas of Canterbury (third row from the top, second from left;
image
expandable) as depicted in one of twenty-six window panels (ca. 1400)
from the
Marienkirche in Wismar (Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) re-mounted in the
same
city's Kirche Heiligen Geist:
http://tinyurl.com/c8ey5rw
w) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in an earlier
fifteenth-century
(ca. 1414) breviary for the Use of Paris (Châteauroux, Bibliothèque
municipale,
ms. 2, fol. 226v):
http://www.enluminures.culture.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht2/IRHT_054065-p.jpg
x) Two scenes from Meister Francke's earlier fifteenth-century
Altarpiece of St.
Thomas Becket (mid-1430s), now in the Kunsthalle in Hamburg:
1) T.'s entry into Canterbury:
http://tinyurl.com/yb3q3o
2) T.'s martyrdom:
http://tinyurl.com/yarm7y
y) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as portrayed on a later
fifteenth-century
(ca. 1450-1500) alabaster panel now in the British Museum, London:
http://tinyurl.com/ykujtkj
http://tinyurl.com/lz7u2k4
z) Two later fifteenth-century alabaster panels from a dismantled
altarpiece
with Becket scenes, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London:
1) T. meeting the pope:
http://tinyurl.com/l85rrdy
http://tinyurl.com/333fg4b
2) T. landing at Sandwich:
http://tinyurl.com/lynhjlw
http://tinyurl.com/lynhjlw
aa) Thomas of Canterbury's enthronement as portrayed on another later
fifteenth-century alabaster panel in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
London
http://tinyurl.com/lbym68y
http://tinyurl.com/yaq6kgr
bb) Thomas of Canterbury's martyrdom as depicted in a later
fifteenth-century
copy (ca. 1480-1490) of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language
version by
Jean de Vignay (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 244, fol. 29bisv):
http://tinyurl.com/ycv83qp
cc) Thomas of Canterbury (at right, after St. Roch and St. Anastasia of
Sirmium)
as depicted in a late fifteenth-century fresco (1493; restored in 1990)
in the
cappella di Sant'Anastasia in Sale San Giovanni (CN) in Piedmont:
http://tinyurl.com/km6cr3c
Why is Thomas accoutered as a pilgrim? Is this a customary late
medieval way of
identifying a saint whose own resting place has become a major shrine?
dd) Thomas of Canterbury as portrayed in a statue on the probably
earlier
sixteenth-century altarpiece (betw. 1501 and 1526) in Härads kyrka,
Härad
(Strängnäs kommun), Södermanland:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7909590@N08/6268730290/
Best,
John Dillon
On 12/29/14, Genevra Kornbluth wrote:
>
> To accompany Gordon's glass, here is a small page of Becket images,
with links
to Sens cathedral and the vestments TB is supposed to have worn there:
> http://www.KornbluthPhoto.com/ThomasBecket.html
> best,
> Genevra
>
> On 12/29/2014 9:37 AM, Heintzelman, Matthew wrote:
> > medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
> >
https://www.facebook.com/604882972899463/photos/a.624764970911263.1073741830.604882972899463/757172577670501/?type=1&theater
> >
> >
> >
> > “Following Becket's death, the monks prepared his body for burial.
According
to some accounts, it was discovered that Becket had worn a hairshirt
under his
archbishop's garments—a sign of penance. Soon after, the faithful
throughout
Europe began venerating Becket as a martyr, and on 21 February
1173—little more
than two years after his death—he was canonised by Pope Alexander III
in St
Peter's Church in Segni. On 12 July 1174, in the midst of the Revolt of
1173–1174, Henry humbled himself with public penance at Becket's tomb
as well as
at the church of St. Dunstan's, which became one of the most popular
pilgrimage
sites in England.” (“Thomas Becket” in Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Becket)
> >
> >
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