Christ's Wounds and the Miraculous Host

HAA1210 Medieval Iconography

Dr. Alison Stones

Spring Term, 1998

Week V: The Miraculous Host, the Measure of Christ's Wound, and Reliquaries of the Holy Blood

Miraculous Host Beaune, BM 60, f. 26v See Randall, 1992, II, ii cat. 180; Sotheby's 22. vi. 93, lot 61; Stones, 1996, p. 221 and n. 90

Useful discussion in Lilian M. C. Randall, assisted by C. Clarkson and J. Krochalis, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery(London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP and the Walters Art Gallery, 1992), II, France, 1420-1540, ii, under cat. no. 180, W. 291, to which a miniature of the Miraculous Bleeding Host was added after 1505. The Host, which allegedly bled when a Jew attempted to desecrate it, was presented to Philip the Bold of Burgundy in 1433 by Pope Eugene IV in gratitude for the duke's support of the pope at the Council of Basel, and displayed in a special monstrance. Six representations are listed by Randall. another passed through Sotheby's on 22. vi. 93 as lot 61, and the Sotheby catalogue refers to an eighth example, Johns Hopkins University, Evergreen House, MS 10. See also Vloberg, II, pp. 187-224.

Miraculous Host

Beaune, BM 60, f. 26v

See Randall, 1992, II, ii cat. 180; Sotheby's 22. vi. 93, lot 61; Stones, 1996, p. 221 and n. 90

Useful discussion in Lilian M. C. Randall, assisted by C. Clarkson and J. Krochalis, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery(London and Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP and the Walters Art Gallery, 1992), II, France, 1420-1540, ii, under cat. no. 180, W. 291, to which a miniature of the Miraculous Bleeding Host was added after 1505. The Host, which allegedly bled when a Jew attempted to desecrate it, was presented to Philip the Bold of Burgundy in 1433 by Pope Eugene IV in gratitude for the duke's support of the pope at the Council of Basel, and displayed in a special monstrance. Six representations are listed by Randall. another passed through Sotheby's on 22. vi. 93 as lot 61, and the Sotheby catalogue refers to an eighth example, Johns Hopkins University, Evergreen House, MS 10. See also Vloberg, II, pp. 187-224.

The Measure of Christ's Wound
Carpentras, Bibl. Inguimbertine 59, f. 84 See Stones, 1996, pp. 220-21 and n. 87-89	London, V & A MS L 475-1918, f. 169v See Simpson, 1874; Watson, 1984, p. 118; Stones, 1996, p. 220 and n. 87

The Measure of Christ's Wound

Carpentras, Bibl. Inguimbertine 59,

f. 84

See Stones, 1996, pp. 220-21 and n. 87-89

London, V & A MS L 475-1918, f. 169v

See Simpson, 1874; Watson, 1984, p. 118; Stones, 1996, p. 220 and n. 87

Reliquaries of the Holy Blood
Bruges, Chapel of the Holy Blood, Holy Blood reliquary Stones, 1996, p. 220 and n. 85	Venice, St Mark's Cathedral, Holy Blood reliquary See Hahnloser	Boulogne-sur-Mer, Church of St-François-de-Sales commissioned by Philippe le Bel in 1308 from Guillaume Julien, goldsmith of Paris See Gauthier, 1972, no. 158

Reliquaries of the Holy Blood

Bruges, Chapel of the Holy Blood, Holy Blood reliquary

Stones, 1996, p. 220 and n. 85

Venice, St Mark's Cathedral, Holy Blood reliquary

See Hahnloser

Boulogne-sur-Mer, Church of St-François-de-Sales

commissioned by Philippe le Bel in 1308 from Guillaume Julien, goldsmith of Paris

See Gauthier, 1972, no. 158

Bibliography

R. J. Peebles, The Legend of Longinus its Ecclesiastical Tradition in English Literature and its Connection with the Grail (Bryn Mawr College Monographs 9) (Baltimore: Furst, 1911).

Maurice Vloberg, L'Eucharistie dans l'art, 2 vols. (Paris/Grenoble: Arthaud, 1946).

H. Horster, "Mantuae sanguis preciosus," Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch 25 (1963), 162-71.

Marie-Madeleine S. Gauthier, Émaux du moyen âge occidental (Fribourg: Office du Livre, 1972.

H.R. Hahnloser, Il Tesoro di San Marco, 2 vols. (Firenze: Sansoni, 1965-1971)

Rowan Watson, The Playfair Hours : a late fifteenth century illuminated manuscript from Rouen (V&A, L.475-1918) (London] : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984)

W. P. Simpson, "On the measure of the wound in the side of the Redeemer,' Journal of the British Araheological Association 30 (1874), 357-74

Lilian M. C. Randall, Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Walters Art Gallery , II, Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery and Johns Hopkins UP, 1992)

Sotheby's, London: Western Manuscripts and Miniatures, 22. vi. 93

Alison Stones, 'The Illustrations in the prose Lancelot, New Haven, Yale University, Beinecke MS 229 and Paris, BNF fr. 95, Prolegomena to a Comparative Study,' in Keith Busby, ed.,Word and Image in Arthurian Romance (New York: Garland, 1996), 206-83.

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