medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture



In both Roman- and Byzantine-Rite churches the prophets Nahum, Habakkuk (Habacuc, Abacuc, Abakum, etc.), and Sophonias (Zephaniah) are commemorated on, respectively, the first, second, and third day of December, just as they are in the originally tenth-century Synaxary of Constantinople (where each of them has the first entry under his particular day).  Herewith some period-pertinent images of Habakkuk, many having to do with the episode in which an angel takes him by his hair and brings him to Babylon to succor Daniel in the den of lions with food he had prepared for reapers in Judea, after which he is returned in the same fashion (Daniel 14:32-39):



a) as portrayed in relief (at left) on a panel of the fifth-century wooden door in the narthex of Rome's basilica di Santa Sabina:

http://tinyurl.com/p9r5w3x



b) as portrayed in relief on a fifth- or sixth-century pyxis (from Egypt?) in the British Museum in London:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=46430001&objectid=62091

The object as  a whole:

http://tinyurl.com/z5gv7yp



c) as depicted (lower margin, sixth from left) in the seemingly later sixth-century apse mosaic of the Basilica of the Transfiguration in the Holy Monastery of the God-trodden Mount Sinai at St. Catherine in Egypt's South Sinai governorate (NB: these images pre-date the mosaic's restoration in 2005-2010):

http://tinyurl.com/p87a6gp

Detail view (Habbakuk):

http://www.sinaimonastery.com/big_photo.php?name=sina_t082_f06_b.jpg



d) as portrayed in relief (at upper left) on a sixth- or seventh-century marble slab from Thasos now in the Museum of Archeology in Istanbul:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/33563858@N00/14068132270



e) as depicted in the late tenth- or very early eleventh-century so-called Menologion of Basil II (Città del Vaticano, BAV, cod. Vat. gr. 1613, p. 219):

http://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1613/0241

http://tinyurl.com/zp69vmo



f) as twice depicted (at center and at lower right; at lower left, the personified Babylon) in an eleventh-century psalter of Constantinopolitan origin (betw. 1026 and 1075; Paris, BnF, ms. Supplément grec 610, fol. 252v):

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b85935681/f512.item.zoom



g) as depicted in an eleventh-century copy of Beatus of Liébana's _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_ from the abbey of Saint-Sever (betw. 1028 and 1072; Paris, BnF, ms. Lat. 8878, fol. 233v):

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b52505441p/f485.item.zoom



h) as depicted (at upper left in the upper illumination) in a late eleventh- or early twelfth-century copy of Beatus of Liébana's _Commentarius in Apocalypsin_ from northern Spain (betw. 1091 and 1109; London, BL, Add. MS 11695, fol. 239r):

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_11695_f239r



i) as depicted (bottom row, third from left among the standing figures) on a plaque in the early twelfth-century lower portion (commissioned, 1105) of the Pala d'Oro in Venice's basilica cattedrale patriarcale di San Marco:

http://tinyurl.com/j52m9qz

Detail view:

http://www.akg-images.fr/archive/-2UMDHUWBAPERJ.html



j) as depicted in the twelfth-century mosaics (betw. 1106 and 1170) of the east cupola (Emmanuel cupola) in Venice's basilica cattedrale patriarcale di San Marco:

http://tinyurl.com/pxux68x

The cupola mosaics as a whole (Habakkuk in roughly the one-o'-clock position):

http://www.wga.hu/art/zgothic/mosaics/6sanmarc/2cueast1.jpg



k) as depicted in relief (upper register, second from left) on a mid-twelfth-century capital in the église Saint-Roch in Neuilly-en-Dun (Cher):

http://www.art-roman.net/neuilly-en-d/neuilly-en-d8x.jpg

Detail view:

http://www.art-roman.net/neuilly-en-d/neuilly-en-d10.jpg



l) as depicted in relief (at right) on a seemingly mid-twelfth-century capital in the église Notre-Dame in Gargilesse-Dampierre (Indre):

http://tinyurl.com/qz4rxag



m) as depicted (at left) in a panel of the mid-twelfth-century Tree of Jesse window (ca. 1145-1155) in Chartres' basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/22274117@N08/4141787222/  [photo courtesy of Gordon Plumb]

Detail view (Habakkuk):

http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Chartres/w49-21.htm



n) as depicted in the mid-twelfth-century Frankenthaler Bible (1148-ca. 1152; London, BL, Harley MS 2803, fol. 278r):

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=harley_ms_2803_f278r



o) as depicted in the mid- to slightly later twelfth-century mosaics in the Cappella Palatina in Palermo (grayscale view):

http://www.fotografia.iccd.beniculturali.it/images/watermark/11/107082.jpg



p) as portrayed (lower register, second from right) by Nicholas of Verdun in a late twelfth-century statuette (ca. 1190) on the "Solomon" side of the Shrine of the Magi / Dreikönigenschrein in Köln's Hohe Domkirche Sankt Peter und Maria:

http://tinyurl.com/h9ovnzd

A different view (larger image at right):

http://www.koelner-dom.de/index.php?id=18796&L=1



q) as depicted in one of four panels of a full-page illumination in the late twelfth-century so-called Bible of Saint Bertin (ca. 1190-1200; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 5, fol. 9r, sc. 2B):

http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f5%3A009r_min_b2



r) as portrayed in relief (at left) on a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century capital (betw. 1196 and 1216) in the battistero di San Giovanni in Parma:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/42038165@N02/30159925993

Detail view (Habakkuk):

http://tinyurl.com/h4bybj8



s) as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century glass window panel (ca. 1200-1223; from the cathedral of Soissons) in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore:

http://art.thewalters.org/detail/17462/stained-glass-window-the-the-prophet-habbakuk/



t) as depicted (at top) in the early thirteenth-century Jonah, Daniel, and Habakkuk window (ca. 1205-1210) in Chartres' basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame:

http://tinyurl.com/p6gcsgu

Detail view (Habakkuk):

http://tinyurl.com/zmucfco



u) as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century glass window panel from Champagne-Ardenne (ca. 1210-1245) in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London:

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O179060/prophet-from-a-tree-of-panel/



v) as depicted (at right; at left, the prophet Nahum) in an earlier thirteenth-century glass window (bay 102; ca. 1220) in Troyes' cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul:

http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Troyes%20cathedral/w102AB.htm



w) as depicted in an earlier thirteenth-century bible possibly from Paris (ca. 1220; Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 36, fol. 67r):

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_098011-p.jpg



x) as portrayed in relief in two earlier thirteenth-century quatrefoils (betw. ca. 1220 and 1236) on the west facade of Amiens' basilique cathédrale Notre-Dame:

1) The Lord compels Habbakuk to write: http://tinyurl.com/jjbpq4t

2) An angel takes Habbakuk to Daniel in Babylon: http://tinyurl.com/zap9w43



y) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century bible of French origin (ca. 1251-1275; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 17947, fol. 300r:)

http://tinyurl.com/jr46mpu



z) as depicted in a later thirteenth-century mosaic (betw. 1260 and 1280) in the north narthex of Venice's basilica cattedrale patriarcale di San Marco:

http://tinyurl.com/ojhd7ot



aa) as depicted in the later thirteenth-century martyrology and obituary of the abbaye Notre-Dame des Prés in Douai (ca. 1275-1300; Valenciennes, Bibliothèque de Valenciennes, ms. 838, fol. 97v):

http://tinyurl.com/hjg5xth



bb) as depicted in a late thirteenth-century bible from Ghent (ca. 1280-1295; Reims, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 44, fol. 193v):

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht6/IRHT_098182-p.jpg



cc) as depicted (at center) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1301-1325) of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 160, fol. 367r):

http://tinyurl.com/nthx9g7



dd) as depicted (at left) in an earlier fourteenth-century copy (ca. 1301-1350) of Guiard des Moulins' _Bible historiale_ (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 157, fol. 125r):

http://tinyurl.com/o8r2bwt



ee) as depicted (at left; at right, Jonah) in an earlier fourteenth-century mosaic (ca. 1312) in the former church of the Pammakaristos (Fetiye camii) in Istanbul (click on the image to enlarge):

http://atom.doaks.org/atom/index.php/habakkuk-and-jonah

Better color but badly foreshortened:

http://tinyurl.com/jtd866k



ff) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (ca. 1312-1321) in the nave of the monastery church of the Theotokos at Gračanica in, depending on one's view of the matter, Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija or the Republic of Kosovo:

http://tinyurl.com/psseh2j

Detail view:

http://tinyurl.com/pg37p8h



gg) as depicted in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. ca. 1313 and 1320) by Michael Astrapas and Eutychios in the dome of the King's Church (dedicated to Sts. Joachim and Anne) in the Studenica monastery near Kraljevo (Raška dist.) in Serbia:

http://tinyurl.com/zqm4j93



hh) as depicted (at left in the panel at upper left) in an earlier fourteenth-century pictorial menologion from Thessaloniki (betw. 1322 and 1340; Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Gr. th. f. 1, fol. 19v):

http://image.ox.ac.uk/images/bodleian/msgrthf1/19v.jpg



ii) as depicted (at left; at right, the prophet Zechariah) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (1330s) in the dome of the church of the Hodegetria in the Patriarchate of Peć at Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:

http://tinyurl.com/hyghe7t



jj) as depicted (center panel at left; same panel at right, St. John Damascene) in the earlier fourteenth-century frescoes (betw. 1335 and 1350) in the church of the Holy Ascension at the Visoki Dečani monastery near Peć in, depending upon one's view of the matter, either the Republic of Kosovo or Serbia's province of Kosovo and Metohija:

http://tinyurl.com/ozhx67t



kk) as depicted (left margin at bottom) in a mid-fourteenth-century copy of the Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk (1340; Schaffhausen, Stadtbibliothek, Cod. Gen. 8, fol. 7v):

http://www.e-codices.unifr.ch/de/sbs/0008/7v



ll) as depicted in a fifteenth-century glass window panel in the Bergbau und Gotikmuseum in Leogang (Land Salzburg):

http://tinyurl.com/pl9otqv



mm) as depicted in an early fifteenth-century copy of Guiard des Moulins' _Grande Bible historiale complétée_ (1411; London, BL, Royal MS 19 D III, fol. 420v):

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=royal_ms_19_d_iii_f420v



nn) as portrayed by Donatello in an earlier fifteenth-century statue (ca. 1427-1436) until 1937 on the belltower of Florence's cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore and now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo there:

http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Habakkuk-front.jpg

Detail views (scroll down a bit):

http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2015/03/04/donatello-brought-stone-life/



oo) as depicted in an earlier fifteenth-century _Bible historiale_ (ca. 1430; Den Haag, KB, ms. 78 D 38 I, fol. 256v, miniature b):

http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_78d38%3Adl1_256v_min_b



pp) as depicted (at upper left) in a mid-fifteenth-century copy of the _Speculum humanae salvationis_ in a French-language translation (Paris, BnF, ms. Français 188, fol. 33r):

http://tinyurl.com/q446m43



qq) as depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century book of hours of Eastern Mediterranean origin (Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, Walters Ms. W.534, fol. 32v):

http://tinyurl.com/jj67yzy



rr) as depicted in the later fifteenth-century vault frescoes of the loggia dell'Annunciazione in the cloisters of Genoa's chiesa di Santa Maria di Castello:

http://tinyurl.com/j7cjrsn



ss) as depicted in a later fifteenth-century copy of the _Speculum humanae salvationis_ (ca. 1470-1480; Marseille, Bibliothèque municipale, ms. 89, fol. 29r):

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/savimage/enlumine/irht4/IRHT_076695-p.jpg 



tt) as depicted (right margin, second from top) in a hand-colored woodcut in the Beloit College copy of Hartmann Schedel's late fifteenth-century _Weltchronik_ (_Nuremberg Chronicle_; 1493) at fol. LVv:

http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/book/4th_age/left_page/10%20%28Folio%20LVv%29.pdf



Best,

John Dillon



**********************************************************************

To join the list, send the message: subscribe medieval-religion YOUR NAME

to: [log in to unmask]

To send a message to the list, address it to:

[log in to unmask]

To leave the list, send the message: unsubscribe medieval-religion

to: [log in to unmask]

In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to:

[log in to unmask]

For further information, visit our web site:

http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/medieval-religion