13-08-2021, 06:43 PM
(11-08-2021, 09:51 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Circular text is extremely common, but spiral text is rare in medieval manuscripts, and I don't know of a single other example of spiral text in the sky.
I just had to jump in here with something I just found. Koen, I thought I couldn't find any other examples of spiral text in the sky, despite lots of searching, but then I found something (entirely by accident when I was searching for something else, funny how that happens sometimes)... This is a detail of the Last Judgment from a ceiling mosaic of the Florentine Baptistery, late thirteenth century. According to the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. where I found it, the angel "leads the elect in the direction of the portal to the New Jerusalem" and the text is an inscription from Matthew: "VENITE BENEDICTI PATRIS MEI / POSSIDET PARATUM" ("Come, Blessed of my father, inherit [the kingdom] prepared [for you]") So it's not the bible verse that the exercise of this post is about, but, I think, notable that this example of a spiraling text in the sky is closely related to the same themes.


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