DOI issue:
No. 2
DOI article:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: The Farewell in Bethany: some iconographical notes
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17161#0050
1. The Parting of Christ from His Mother, Silesian about 1490,
formerly Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe (lost during the last war)
if Judas, who played an important role in the treatise of Jacohus of Vitry, is absent from the
miniaturę.24
On Maundy Thursday, Jacobus tells, Son did not depart from His Mother by whole day... Sub-
sequently, an episode is related, that often appears hcnccforth in the Passion literaturę and drama
— the episode of Judas, returning from Jerusalem after the betrayal. And Mother, receiving
him sweetly because of Her love t& Jesus, pronounced the words that always filled mediaeval
authors with great compassion: „Juda mi dilecte, commendo tibi filium meum". And Christ would
not like to reveal Judas' sin but ate supper with him, with the Virgin and with the disciples. And
in order to show His even greater kindness He let Judas to sit at the table just in the middle,
between the Virgin and Himself.26
24. The episode with the traitor was vcry popular in mediaeval sermons and Passion dranias, Tli. Meier, Die Geslalt Marias
im geistlichen Schauspiel des deutschen Mittelalters, Berlin, 1959 p. 199—205.
25. Jaeobus of Vitry, op. cii., fol. 168 r: ,,Ircria ąuarta post dieni palmarum... filius non rcccssit a matre quasi per totam dicm...
(fol 171) Et suscepit eum (Judam) dulciter mater Christi amore filii sui...ct. ...dixit sihi matcr Christi; Juda mi dilecte,
commendo tibi filium meum!... Nichilominus Christus, cui omnia manifesta sunt, noluit peccatum Jude manifestarc, sed
caritatiue cenauit cum eo, cum matre et discipulis suis. Et ad maiorem caritatem dcmonstrandam,... posuit Judam in
cena in medio sui et matris sue."
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formerly Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe (lost during the last war)
if Judas, who played an important role in the treatise of Jacohus of Vitry, is absent from the
miniaturę.24
On Maundy Thursday, Jacobus tells, Son did not depart from His Mother by whole day... Sub-
sequently, an episode is related, that often appears hcnccforth in the Passion literaturę and drama
— the episode of Judas, returning from Jerusalem after the betrayal. And Mother, receiving
him sweetly because of Her love t& Jesus, pronounced the words that always filled mediaeval
authors with great compassion: „Juda mi dilecte, commendo tibi filium meum". And Christ would
not like to reveal Judas' sin but ate supper with him, with the Virgin and with the disciples. And
in order to show His even greater kindness He let Judas to sit at the table just in the middle,
between the Virgin and Himself.26
24. The episode with the traitor was vcry popular in mediaeval sermons and Passion dranias, Tli. Meier, Die Geslalt Marias
im geistlichen Schauspiel des deutschen Mittelalters, Berlin, 1959 p. 199—205.
25. Jaeobus of Vitry, op. cii., fol. 168 r: ,,Ircria ąuarta post dieni palmarum... filius non rcccssit a matre quasi per totam dicm...
(fol 171) Et suscepit eum (Judam) dulciter mater Christi amore filii sui...ct. ...dixit sihi matcr Christi; Juda mi dilecte,
commendo tibi filium meum!... Nichilominus Christus, cui omnia manifesta sunt, noluit peccatum Jude manifestarc, sed
caritatiue cenauit cum eo, cum matre et discipulis suis. Et ad maiorem caritatem dcmonstrandam,... posuit Judam in
cena in medio sui et matris sue."
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