3. The Parting of Christ from His Mother, Silesian, about 1520, Warsaw,
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The words of Christ on the inevitable necessity of His Passion and death increased grief of
the Virgin. When she was with Her Son and when she could not say word because of sorrow,
Mary began to ery sweetly in Iow voice; listening to this, Mary Magdalen hastened and embraced
sweetly the feet of Jesus, saying: „Ecce, dulcis magister, vides quod mater iam defecit pre
dolore". The lament of the Virgin was heard also by the Apostles, so all of them asked in tears:
,,Exaudi, domine, vocem sanctissime matris tue".28 The miniaturist of the Dominican Meditations
28. Jacobus of Vitry, op. cii., fol. 174r:fuit Maria virgo sola seorsum cum filio, et cum iam mater Christi non potuit amplius
quidquam dicere pre dolore, incepit sic alta vocc clamare dulciter, quod audiens Maria Magdalena ad eam cucurrit et ample-
xans dulciter pedes Christi dixit: Ecce, dulcis magister, vides, quod mater iam defecit pro dolore... (fol. 174v) ...Et ad hunc
planctum virgines cucurrerunt et apostoli...Et tunc omnes cum fletu dixerunt: Exaudi, domine, vocem sanctissime matris
tuel"
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Muzeum Narodowe
The words of Christ on the inevitable necessity of His Passion and death increased grief of
the Virgin. When she was with Her Son and when she could not say word because of sorrow,
Mary began to ery sweetly in Iow voice; listening to this, Mary Magdalen hastened and embraced
sweetly the feet of Jesus, saying: „Ecce, dulcis magister, vides quod mater iam defecit pre
dolore". The lament of the Virgin was heard also by the Apostles, so all of them asked in tears:
,,Exaudi, domine, vocem sanctissime matris tue".28 The miniaturist of the Dominican Meditations
28. Jacobus of Vitry, op. cii., fol. 174r:fuit Maria virgo sola seorsum cum filio, et cum iam mater Christi non potuit amplius
quidquam dicere pre dolore, incepit sic alta vocc clamare dulciter, quod audiens Maria Magdalena ad eam cucurrit et ample-
xans dulciter pedes Christi dixit: Ecce, dulcis magister, vides, quod mater iam defecit pro dolore... (fol. 174v) ...Et ad hunc
planctum virgines cucurrerunt et apostoli...Et tunc omnes cum fletu dixerunt: Exaudi, domine, vocem sanctissime matris
tuel"
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