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REX REGEM I REX POLONIAE
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tacie had not only a sacral sense but also a strictly dehned legal sense of great social
consequence.
The miniatures complementing the text of the ceremony laid down in the Ponti-
fical also perforin a "presentation of the State".
The Miniatures. Of the 62 miniatures in Ciolek's Pontifical, five have "royal" cere-
monies as their subject. Preceding the OrJo coro/MwJi there are two separate pictorial
compositions on leaves XXXV (verso) and XXXVI (recto) (ills. 88—91, 92—93).
The first is a full-page miniature painted on a blank leaf, which does not belong to
the sheets of the MS; the second is a half-page miniature preceding the text of the cere-
monial. None of the other texts of the Pontifical, with the exception of the canon
of the Mass, has been distinguished in this manner. The creator of the iconographic
plan of the Pontifical (probably Ciołek himself) chose as the subjects of these minia-
tures two moments still significant in the liturgical and legal content of the ceremony;
the culminating moment of the coronation, which in the Polish ceremonial was ac-
companied by the singing of the "Te Deum", and the ceremony of transmitting the
symbol of the State — the crown — to the king-elect.
„Te DeMirt taMdaiMMs". The Enthronement of the King
Within the narrow h -
30.4x21.4 cm) is co: E
Gothic pseudo-hall a E
with a crowd of smal E
assembled people lies -
throne surrounded b; ^
which there hangs a < E
pointing upwards sta E
and before them. In -
conducting a choir of -
choir and an organ s E
part of the earthly t E
words of the "Te Deu E
from the State funct E
within the aperture o r
arch" (the term used E
the corbels of the arc E
and the "Pogoń", the
the Grand Duchy of 1
men, by their latent
stock still in solemn
The miniaturist h;
and orderly manner,
the apparent eye-leve
The symmetrical line!
lars, the bases of the
a common vertical ax
metrical and ideologi
larger scale. The pictt
§- O
— <D
E* O
— LD L-
Ł 0
r" "S
u
U !
* XXY'-) iHs. 88, 91, 136-144
ht rectangle (dimensions
edral. The spaces of the
columns, and are filled
ting the attention of the
he king is sitting on his
aulting of the apse, from
swords with the blades
and in rows in the stalls
pulpit, two cantors are
rumpets from a flanking
Is, the celestial counter-
g a scroll with the first
wd of people, separated
1. This picture is shown
lie role of a "diaphragm
in full armour stand on
;rs with the White Eagle
Kingdom of Poland and
ither statues nor living
owd of people standing
he coronation in a lucid
erior and the placing of
)eople are not screened,
p, the capitals of the pil-
;sa horizontal line but on
rpture, of which the geo-
so distinguished by its
<ots of colour contained
226
tacie had not only a sacral sense but also a strictly dehned legal sense of great social
consequence.
The miniatures complementing the text of the ceremony laid down in the Ponti-
fical also perforin a "presentation of the State".
The Miniatures. Of the 62 miniatures in Ciolek's Pontifical, five have "royal" cere-
monies as their subject. Preceding the OrJo coro/MwJi there are two separate pictorial
compositions on leaves XXXV (verso) and XXXVI (recto) (ills. 88—91, 92—93).
The first is a full-page miniature painted on a blank leaf, which does not belong to
the sheets of the MS; the second is a half-page miniature preceding the text of the cere-
monial. None of the other texts of the Pontifical, with the exception of the canon
of the Mass, has been distinguished in this manner. The creator of the iconographic
plan of the Pontifical (probably Ciołek himself) chose as the subjects of these minia-
tures two moments still significant in the liturgical and legal content of the ceremony;
the culminating moment of the coronation, which in the Polish ceremonial was ac-
companied by the singing of the "Te Deum", and the ceremony of transmitting the
symbol of the State — the crown — to the king-elect.
„Te DeMirt taMdaiMMs". The Enthronement of the King
Within the narrow h -
30.4x21.4 cm) is co: E
Gothic pseudo-hall a E
with a crowd of smal E
assembled people lies -
throne surrounded b; ^
which there hangs a < E
pointing upwards sta E
and before them. In -
conducting a choir of -
choir and an organ s E
part of the earthly t E
words of the "Te Deu E
from the State funct E
within the aperture o r
arch" (the term used E
the corbels of the arc E
and the "Pogoń", the
the Grand Duchy of 1
men, by their latent
stock still in solemn
The miniaturist h;
and orderly manner,
the apparent eye-leve
The symmetrical line!
lars, the bases of the
a common vertical ax
metrical and ideologi
larger scale. The pictt
§- O
— <D
E* O
— LD L-
Ł 0
r" "S
u
U !
* XXY'-) iHs. 88, 91, 136-144
ht rectangle (dimensions
edral. The spaces of the
columns, and are filled
ting the attention of the
he king is sitting on his
aulting of the apse, from
swords with the blades
and in rows in the stalls
pulpit, two cantors are
rumpets from a flanking
Is, the celestial counter-
g a scroll with the first
wd of people, separated
1. This picture is shown
lie role of a "diaphragm
in full armour stand on
;rs with the White Eagle
Kingdom of Poland and
ither statues nor living
owd of people standing
he coronation in a lucid
erior and the placing of
)eople are not screened,
p, the capitals of the pil-
;sa horizontal line but on
rpture, of which the geo-
so distinguished by its
<ots of colour contained