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Re: FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner

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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

Dear Rosemary,

Thanks for your comments. If you look at the catalogue entries for the V & A Alabasters in "English Medieval Alabasters" by Francis Cheetham you will find time and again no provenance beyond where they were purchased. The
find of these panels at Flawford is in a sense quite atypical. Like you, I find this very frustrating!

Best wishes

Gordon

PS I am looking forward to seeing the new edition of Grossteste by Pamela Hoskin when it appears in May- the first volume in the new Lincs RS  Ksthleen major series. 


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Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner


medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture

Superb image and background description Gordon.  The first time I saw

Nottingham alabasters in any number was on my first visit to the Burrell

collection in Glasgow - hugely frustrating because there is no provenance

with any of the pieces.  Is that typical?  Do we just have the panels with

no indication of where and by whom they were originally used?

Rosemary
Hayes
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Subject: Re: [M-R] FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the

First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the
Forerunner


medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion
and culture

Only marginally relevant to this is the fact that the head of
John the 
Baptist was a major subject of Nottingham
alabasters: Here is an
example in the Castle Museum in
Nottingham.:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/16244647939

Gordon
Plumb


-----Original Message-----
From: John Dillon
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Subject: [M-R]
FEAST - A Celebration for the Day (February 24): the First 
and Second
Finding(s) of the Head of St. John the Forerunner


medieval-religion:
Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture

In
Orthodox and some
other Eastern-rite churches of the Chalcedonian persuasion 
24.
February is
the feast of the First and Second Finding(s) of the Head of St. 
John
the
Forerunner. Roman-rite martyrologies from at least the ninth century

through
to the modern Roman Martyrology prior to its revision of 2001 entered
under 
that
day a commemoration of the Finding (later, the First Finding) of
the Head of 
St.
John the Baptist. The Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates these
Findings in a
feast of the Appearance of the Head of St. John the Baptist on
30. Amshir 
(9.
March; 24. February, old style).

In Greek tradition the
First Finding took
place in the time of Constantine the Great (306-337) and was
effected by two
monks informed by John in a dream. The recovered head was
brought in secret 
to
another place where in time it came into the possession
of an Arian who used 
its
miracle-working presence to bring about cures for
which he took the credit 
and
who, having been exiled, buried the head against
an intended return that 
never
happened. Later, after a monastery had been
built over the place where the 
head
was hidden, John appeared to the
monastery's hegumen Marcellus, apprised him 
of
what lay beneath, and so put
in motion the Second Finding. Coptic Orthodox
tradition is very similar but
identifies the churchman who effects the 
Second
Finding as Martianus, bishop
of Emesa. In the Latin tradition represented by 
the
later ninth-century
martyrology of Usuard of Saint-Germain the Finding took
place in the time of
the emperor Marcian (450-457); this accords with the
customary dates for the
Second Finding (either 452 or 453).

According to its
originally
eleventh-century _Hypotyposis_ (handbook of arrangements), at the
Theotokos
Evergetis monastery in Constantinople on only this feast and that 
of
the
Forty Martyrs of Sebaste would the monks break their fast during Great

Lent.


Some medieval images of the First and Second Findings of the Head
of St.
John the Forerunner:

a) The First Finding as depicted (with
Constantine and
others present) in the later tenth- or very early
eleventh-century so-called
Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV,
cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 420;
reduced grayscale
view):
http://tinyurl.com/mzm2tyo

b) The First Finding (at
bottom left) as
depicted in an eleventh- or twelfth-century menologion of
undetermined origin
(Paris, BnF, ms. Grec 1528, fol.
216r):
http://tinyurl.com/ojwvlvo

c) The
First Finding as depicted (panel at
lower right) in an earlier
fourteenth-century set of miniatures from
Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340)
for the Great Feasts (Oxford, Bodleian
Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1,
fol.
28r):
http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/28r.jpg

d) The
Second
Finding (note the presence of the monastery church) as depicted in the
St. 
John
the Forerunner cycle in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes
(1330s) in 
the
diakonikon of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate
of Peć at Peć 
in,
depending upon one's view of the matter, either Serbia's
province of Kosovo 
and
Metohija or the Republic of
Kosovo:
http://tinyurl.com/83eevtp

e) The First
Finding (upper register;
lower register: the Entombment of St. John the
Forerunner) as depicted in the
earlier sixteenth-century frescoes (1545 and
1546) by Theofanis
Strelitzas-Bathas (a.k.a. Theophanes the Cretan) in the
chapel of St. Nicholas
in the katholikon of the Stavronikita monastery on

Mt.
Athos:
http://tinyurl.com/6lgc36s

f) The First and Second Findings
(bottom
register, last two panels at right) as depicted in an earlier

sixteenth-century
icon, from Nyonoks in the Arkhangelskaya region, of St.
John the Forerunner 
with
scenes from his life, now in the Arkhangelsk Fine
Arts
Museum:
http://www.iconrussia.ru/eng/icon/detail.php?ID=5837
The
Second
Finding is represented by John's appearance to the hegumen
Marcellus.

g) The
First and Second Findings (bottom register, last two
panels at right) as
depicted in an earlier or mid-sixteenth-century Yaroslavl
School icon of St.
John the Forerunner with scenes from his life, now in the
Art Museum
in
Yaroslavl:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=1128

h)
The
First and Second Findings (bottom register, last four panels at right)
as
depicted in two pairs of scenes (John's appearances; actual findings) in
a
mid-sixteenth-century Yaroslavl School icon of St. John the Forerunner
with
scenes from his life, now in the Museum of History and
Architecture,
Yaroslavl:
http://www.icon-art.info/hires.php?lng=en&type=1&id=1129

Best,
John
Dillon
(matter
from an older post
now
revised)

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