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DOI Artikel:Kalinowski, Lech: The English Romanesque art exhibition at the Hayward Gallery: An iconographical gloss
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1. Moses before the Burning Bush, Bibie, Genesis-Ruth,
c. 1150. Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 22
peculiarities of the exhibited works, irirespective
of whether they are Anglo-Saxom, Norman, or
Continental.
Among the Old Testament soetnes our attentioin
is drawn firist to the representation of Moses in
front of the Burning Bush wiith the rnotif of his
staff turned into a serpent (Exodus IX, 4): ”And
Moses ans w er ed and said, But, beko ld, they will
not believe me, nor h ark en into my vo,ice; for
they will say, The Lord haith not appeared unto
thiee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that
in thine hantd? And he said, A rod. And he said,
Cast it oin the grounp. And he cast it on the
ground, and it ibecame a serpent; and Moses fled
from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Put forth thine hand, and take it by the taił.
And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it
became a rod in his hand: That they may belie-
ve that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.”
This episode, identified by Adelheid Hermann
on a detached leaf from a Psalter, c. 1140, in the
Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 724 (N° 47) as well
as in the Paris Tripartite Psalter, Ms. lat. 8846,
f. 2r [(not sihown in the exhibitiom) (N° 73), both
attrilbuted to Canterbury, Christ Church(?), and
recognized as of Byzantine inspiration4, is also
rendered in the form of the initiall H[ec suint
nomina duodecim filiorum Israel] in the Bibie,
Genesis-Ruth, of (?) Walsingham Priory, c. 1150,
in Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 92 (N°
52). Moses stanidls in front of the Burning Bush,
depioted as the head of God in flameb at the
top of the letter-shaft, and tries to remove his
left shoe with his left hand, while his right hand
grasps the serpent (Fig. 1). Since the illuminated
initial is iplaced at the very beginning of the Book
of Exodus — the artist used the same composi-
tion, but without the Burning Bush, to illustrate
the beginning of the Book of Numbers (f. 67v) —
is there any need to see in the serpent ,,a refe-
rence to the brazen serpent he was ordered to
set up in Numbers XXI, 8—9”? On the same evi-
dence we are inclined to assume that the ser-
pent entwining the staff of Moses on his life-
-sized statuę „from a series of prophets, typo-
logical figures and Apostles”, c. 1180—1185, from
St Mary’s Abbey in York, Yorkshire Museum
(N° 173a), alludes to the event on Mount Horeb
rather than to the brazen serpent (Fig. 2).
Willibald Sauerlander in his inąuiry into the
York sculptures stated: „The Moses figurę at
York holds the Tables of the Law in his left
hand and a staff, about which the taił of a wiin-
ged dragon is wound, in his right (PI. XVIII, 3).
This second attribute is a representation of the
Brazen Serpent” 5. Supporting the view that the
series is part of a Frencih type portal, he expres-
sed the opinion that „the Moses with iboth attri-
butes do es not appear among jamb figures om
the Gothic portals until about 1170, when it forms
4 a. H e i ni a n n, The hast Copy of the „Utrecht
Psalter” [in:] The Year 1200: A Symposium, The Metro-
politan Museum of Art [1975], p. 320; L. K a 1 i n o w s k i,
„Virga versatur”. Remarąues sur l iconographie des vi-
traux romans d’Arnstein-sur-la-Lahn (Revue de 1 Art, 63
(1983)), pp. 9—20.
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1. Moses before the Burning Bush, Bibie, Genesis-Ruth,
c. 1150. Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 22
peculiarities of the exhibited works, irirespective
of whether they are Anglo-Saxom, Norman, or
Continental.
Among the Old Testament soetnes our attentioin
is drawn firist to the representation of Moses in
front of the Burning Bush wiith the rnotif of his
staff turned into a serpent (Exodus IX, 4): ”And
Moses ans w er ed and said, But, beko ld, they will
not believe me, nor h ark en into my vo,ice; for
they will say, The Lord haith not appeared unto
thiee. And the Lord said unto him, What is that
in thine hantd? And he said, A rod. And he said,
Cast it oin the grounp. And he cast it on the
ground, and it ibecame a serpent; and Moses fled
from before it. And the Lord said unto Moses,
Put forth thine hand, and take it by the taił.
And he put forth his hand, and caught it, and it
became a rod in his hand: That they may belie-
ve that the Lord, the God of their fathers, the
God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God
of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee.”
This episode, identified by Adelheid Hermann
on a detached leaf from a Psalter, c. 1140, in the
Pierpont Morgan Library, M. 724 (N° 47) as well
as in the Paris Tripartite Psalter, Ms. lat. 8846,
f. 2r [(not sihown in the exhibitiom) (N° 73), both
attrilbuted to Canterbury, Christ Church(?), and
recognized as of Byzantine inspiration4, is also
rendered in the form of the initiall H[ec suint
nomina duodecim filiorum Israel] in the Bibie,
Genesis-Ruth, of (?) Walsingham Priory, c. 1150,
in Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS 92 (N°
52). Moses stanidls in front of the Burning Bush,
depioted as the head of God in flameb at the
top of the letter-shaft, and tries to remove his
left shoe with his left hand, while his right hand
grasps the serpent (Fig. 1). Since the illuminated
initial is iplaced at the very beginning of the Book
of Exodus — the artist used the same composi-
tion, but without the Burning Bush, to illustrate
the beginning of the Book of Numbers (f. 67v) —
is there any need to see in the serpent ,,a refe-
rence to the brazen serpent he was ordered to
set up in Numbers XXI, 8—9”? On the same evi-
dence we are inclined to assume that the ser-
pent entwining the staff of Moses on his life-
-sized statuę „from a series of prophets, typo-
logical figures and Apostles”, c. 1180—1185, from
St Mary’s Abbey in York, Yorkshire Museum
(N° 173a), alludes to the event on Mount Horeb
rather than to the brazen serpent (Fig. 2).
Willibald Sauerlander in his inąuiry into the
York sculptures stated: „The Moses figurę at
York holds the Tables of the Law in his left
hand and a staff, about which the taił of a wiin-
ged dragon is wound, in his right (PI. XVIII, 3).
This second attribute is a representation of the
Brazen Serpent” 5. Supporting the view that the
series is part of a Frencih type portal, he expres-
sed the opinion that „the Moses with iboth attri-
butes do es not appear among jamb figures om
the Gothic portals until about 1170, when it forms
4 a. H e i ni a n n, The hast Copy of the „Utrecht
Psalter” [in:] The Year 1200: A Symposium, The Metro-
politan Museum of Art [1975], p. 320; L. K a 1 i n o w s k i,
„Virga versatur”. Remarąues sur l iconographie des vi-
traux romans d’Arnstein-sur-la-Lahn (Revue de 1 Art, 63
(1983)), pp. 9—20.
146