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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Debilitatio Christi: a contribution to the iconography of Christ in Distress
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7. The predella of an Altar, Polish painter, c. 1500, Sromowce Niżne, Parish Churck
(Phot. Z. Tomaszewska)
cribed the sacred place along the Way to Calvary making, wlien necessary, brief explanations
of the events which had occured there. While in the texts cited above a tendency to narrative
prevails, in the two following writings we are faced with an abbreviated version of the sitting
of Christ on a stone. In his Itinerarium ad Sepulchrum Domini Antonius of Cremona noted that
on the 14 th April 1327 he — among the others — had reached Jerusalem whcre they had vene-
rated a stone, on which Jesus was sitting during the Way to Calvary: ...pervenimus Jerosc-
limam ...Ubi venerati fuimus saxum ubi Christus sedit ąuando porłavit crucem.le
Johannes Poloner in his Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, written in 1422, also mentions the place
of the Meeting of Mother and Son, which is described by him evidently under. influence of the
version of the Meditationes vitae Christi:17 (229) ...in pavimento, a gradu Cafaariae undecim pas-
sibus, est locus signatus lapide, quo Dominus Jesus, ducłus a domo Pilati, quievit cum cruce, co-
horte circumstante. (230) Postea per XLII passus a dextris, juxta viam, est locus stationis beatae
Virginis.
Already in the VII th century an itinerarium to the Holy Land by an anonymous writer re-
marked that in the church of the Holy Sepulchre on the left side there was a carcer Domini (...
a sinistro latere est carcer Domini).ls A detailed information about it may be found in the work
of the XII th century writer Johannes of Wiirzburg.19 Idem vero locus, qui et hebraice Golgatha,
erat in veteri rupe...Interim, dum in eadem rupe pro crucifixione omnia adaptarentur, Dominus
noster in quodam a Caharia remoto loco, qui tunc, utpote extra moniem positus, campestris erat,
16. Antonius de Cremona, Itinerarium ad Sepulcrum Domini (1327—1330); mitgeteilt v. R. Rohricht, Zcilschrift des
deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, XIII, Leipzig, 1890, p. 153 —174.
17. Descripliones Terrae Sanctae ex saeculo VIII, IX, XII et X V. Nacli Hand-und Druckschriften hrsg. v. T. Tobler, Leipzig,
1874. He differs from the other writers in explaining the causc of the destruction of the church: ad sanclam Mariam de
spasmo cujus vesligia hucusaue cernuntur, quae a perfidis saraeenis est destructa. For this church see D. Baldi, Enchiridion
locarunt sanctorum, Ierusalem, 1935, p. 756.
18. Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, op. cit., p. 101.
19. Joannis Wirzburgensis prcsbytcri Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, PL 155, col. 1077 C/D
101
(Phot. Z. Tomaszewska)
cribed the sacred place along the Way to Calvary making, wlien necessary, brief explanations
of the events which had occured there. While in the texts cited above a tendency to narrative
prevails, in the two following writings we are faced with an abbreviated version of the sitting
of Christ on a stone. In his Itinerarium ad Sepulchrum Domini Antonius of Cremona noted that
on the 14 th April 1327 he — among the others — had reached Jerusalem whcre they had vene-
rated a stone, on which Jesus was sitting during the Way to Calvary: ...pervenimus Jerosc-
limam ...Ubi venerati fuimus saxum ubi Christus sedit ąuando porłavit crucem.le
Johannes Poloner in his Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, written in 1422, also mentions the place
of the Meeting of Mother and Son, which is described by him evidently under. influence of the
version of the Meditationes vitae Christi:17 (229) ...in pavimento, a gradu Cafaariae undecim pas-
sibus, est locus signatus lapide, quo Dominus Jesus, ducłus a domo Pilati, quievit cum cruce, co-
horte circumstante. (230) Postea per XLII passus a dextris, juxta viam, est locus stationis beatae
Virginis.
Already in the VII th century an itinerarium to the Holy Land by an anonymous writer re-
marked that in the church of the Holy Sepulchre on the left side there was a carcer Domini (...
a sinistro latere est carcer Domini).ls A detailed information about it may be found in the work
of the XII th century writer Johannes of Wiirzburg.19 Idem vero locus, qui et hebraice Golgatha,
erat in veteri rupe...Interim, dum in eadem rupe pro crucifixione omnia adaptarentur, Dominus
noster in quodam a Caharia remoto loco, qui tunc, utpote extra moniem positus, campestris erat,
16. Antonius de Cremona, Itinerarium ad Sepulcrum Domini (1327—1330); mitgeteilt v. R. Rohricht, Zcilschrift des
deutschen Palaestina-Vereins, XIII, Leipzig, 1890, p. 153 —174.
17. Descripliones Terrae Sanctae ex saeculo VIII, IX, XII et X V. Nacli Hand-und Druckschriften hrsg. v. T. Tobler, Leipzig,
1874. He differs from the other writers in explaining the causc of the destruction of the church: ad sanclam Mariam de
spasmo cujus vesligia hucusaue cernuntur, quae a perfidis saraeenis est destructa. For this church see D. Baldi, Enchiridion
locarunt sanctorum, Ierusalem, 1935, p. 756.
18. Descriptiones Terrae Sanctae, op. cit., p. 101.
19. Joannis Wirzburgensis prcsbytcri Descriptio Terrae Sanctae, PL 155, col. 1077 C/D
101