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THE BLESSING OF A CRUSADER, historiated initial 'S' on a cutting from the Pontifical of Pierre de la Jugie, in Latin, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM
[Narbonne, c.1350]
175 x 193mm. The initial 'S' in pink on a ground of burnished gold, acanthus terminals extending into the margin; within Pierre de la Jugie (1319-1376) blessing a kneeling crusader. The verso with similar marginal decoration, including a cockerel, and part of an initial 'B'; 12 lines of visible text in two columns (one partial) on recto and verso, recto with two one-line initials in gold on a blue ground, verso with three one-line initials in gold on a red ground and one in gold on a blue ground, rubrics in red (minor loss of pigment affecting the face of a member of the bishop's retinue and tiny loss of burnished gold, a small hole not affecting the text or illumination). In a modern cloth binding.
The initial, illustrating the corresponding rubric ('De benedictione et impositione crucis proficiscentibus in subsidium terrae sanctae'), opens the text in a Pontifical for the blessing and imposition of the cross upon the defenders of the Christian Faith in the Holy Land.
A striking and evocative survival from the great Pontifical of Pierre de la Jugie, bishop of Saragossa (1345), archbishop of Narbonne (1347) and later of Rouen (1375), nephew of Clement VI and cousin of Gregory XI. The mutilated manuscript (Narbonne, Salle du Trésor de la Cathédrale Saint-Just) to which the present cutting belongs carries his arms and contains an astronomical table that dates it to c.1350.
[Narbonne, c.1350]
175 x 193mm. The initial 'S' in pink on a ground of burnished gold, acanthus terminals extending into the margin; within Pierre de la Jugie (1319-1376) blessing a kneeling crusader. The verso with similar marginal decoration, including a cockerel, and part of an initial 'B'; 12 lines of visible text in two columns (one partial) on recto and verso, recto with two one-line initials in gold on a blue ground, verso with three one-line initials in gold on a red ground and one in gold on a blue ground, rubrics in red (minor loss of pigment affecting the face of a member of the bishop's retinue and tiny loss of burnished gold, a small hole not affecting the text or illumination). In a modern cloth binding.
The initial, illustrating the corresponding rubric ('De benedictione et impositione crucis proficiscentibus in subsidium terrae sanctae'), opens the text in a Pontifical for the blessing and imposition of the cross upon the defenders of the Christian Faith in the Holy Land.
A striking and evocative survival from the great Pontifical of Pierre de la Jugie, bishop of Saragossa (1345), archbishop of Narbonne (1347) and later of Rouen (1375), nephew of Clement VI and cousin of Gregory XI. The mutilated manuscript (Narbonne, Salle du Trésor de la Cathédrale Saint-Just) to which the present cutting belongs carries his arms and contains an astronomical table that dates it to c.1350.
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