The Arma Christi [General discussion]

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Arma Christi wall shield in Yorkminster with double-helix:



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Sometimes the individual parts were broken into separate portions. This is a later example from upper Austria, but I have also seen this in medieval churches.

It seems to me that if Arma Christi were hidden within a manuscript, it would be easier to illustrate them like this, as discrete groupings. Dice and stakes, hammer and tongs:

 

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This is also a later example, but I include it because it shows naked cherubs from the waist up holding the various implements:

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