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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Mediaeval sources of the Pietà
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8. Pitić-de-Nostre Damt, Bernt Notkę, fragment of the Thuro 0 Altar, ca 1482—83, Copenhage n,
Nationalmusect (after W. Paatz)
in universis finibus Israhel diu ąuaesita, ąuae ceteris postpositis David regem in suo sinu dor-
mientem calefecit ac ministravit, nec tamen virginitatis florę se privavit.2s
In the German version of the Biblia Pauperum of the third rjuarter of the XVth century in
Munich,29 which inchides numerous illustrations of the Passion events, we find a pictoria]
reflection of the mediaeval typological endeavors: the Pieta, shown in the centrę of the page,
just as a historical episode was to be represented, is surrounded with four busts of prophets,
nxmely, of Sophonias, Zechariah, Hosea and Job, and with two prefigurations from the Old
Testament (fig. I)30. The words of Job are of particular interest in our context: Quare lacero
cornes meas denlibus meis e! animam meam porto in manibus meis?
An early evidence for including the Pieta into the historical cyele of Passion events
is furnished by Sermo de Passione of Jacob of Yoragine (f 1298): Quis autem habere dubium
potest, quin mater corpus eius depositum susceperit in gremio suo, in brachiis suis: et nunc caput
spinis perforatum, nunc manus sanctissimas, nunc pedes qui quotidie discurrebant ad ąuerendtim
hominum salutem; nunc latus lancea cpertum copiosissimis lachrymis psrfundebat...31
28. Homilia de sancti.ssimo nomine Mariae, see Maracci, op. cii., p. 680.
29. Munich, Staatsbibliot-hek, Cgm 155, from the Abbey of St Ercnitrud, Nonnberg, Salzburg; dated by H. Cornell (Biblia
Pauperum, Stockholm, 1925, p. 110, No 49) after 1450 and by H. Zimmermann ("Armcnbibel", Reallexikon DK, 1,
col. 1072-1084) to 1450-70.
30. Sopli., 1:10, Zech., 12:11, Hos., 10:5, Job, 13:14; II Chroniclcs, 35:24, Maccab., 9:18-22.
31. Sermo ile Passione [in:] Sermone* quadragesimale.', Brixen, 1483.
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Nationalmusect (after W. Paatz)
in universis finibus Israhel diu ąuaesita, ąuae ceteris postpositis David regem in suo sinu dor-
mientem calefecit ac ministravit, nec tamen virginitatis florę se privavit.2s
In the German version of the Biblia Pauperum of the third rjuarter of the XVth century in
Munich,29 which inchides numerous illustrations of the Passion events, we find a pictoria]
reflection of the mediaeval typological endeavors: the Pieta, shown in the centrę of the page,
just as a historical episode was to be represented, is surrounded with four busts of prophets,
nxmely, of Sophonias, Zechariah, Hosea and Job, and with two prefigurations from the Old
Testament (fig. I)30. The words of Job are of particular interest in our context: Quare lacero
cornes meas denlibus meis e! animam meam porto in manibus meis?
An early evidence for including the Pieta into the historical cyele of Passion events
is furnished by Sermo de Passione of Jacob of Yoragine (f 1298): Quis autem habere dubium
potest, quin mater corpus eius depositum susceperit in gremio suo, in brachiis suis: et nunc caput
spinis perforatum, nunc manus sanctissimas, nunc pedes qui quotidie discurrebant ad ąuerendtim
hominum salutem; nunc latus lancea cpertum copiosissimis lachrymis psrfundebat...31
28. Homilia de sancti.ssimo nomine Mariae, see Maracci, op. cii., p. 680.
29. Munich, Staatsbibliot-hek, Cgm 155, from the Abbey of St Ercnitrud, Nonnberg, Salzburg; dated by H. Cornell (Biblia
Pauperum, Stockholm, 1925, p. 110, No 49) after 1450 and by H. Zimmermann ("Armcnbibel", Reallexikon DK, 1,
col. 1072-1084) to 1450-70.
30. Sopli., 1:10, Zech., 12:11, Hos., 10:5, Job, 13:14; II Chroniclcs, 35:24, Maccab., 9:18-22.
31. Sermo ile Passione [in:] Sermone* quadragesimale.', Brixen, 1483.
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