19-02-2022, 04:03 PM
(19-02-2022, 02:06 PM)Koen G wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Following R Sale's comment about the Sacred Host of Dijon in another thread, I ended up with You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. by the Morgan library. At ca. 1:12 they show a priest holding a host in front of a monstrance, which holds another host.
This is the first time I noticed that hosts can be tripartite. (There is a lot of damage to the miniature and both hosts are damaged, but it looks like they are marked with a TAU cross). The priest appears to hold a "regular" T-O while in the monstrance it is upside down.
This symbol was adopted by Carthusians, who were greatest promoters of Christian mysticism. Their symbol contains orb with an inverted T, and a T-cross on top. The caption below in Latin reads [b] dum volvitur orbis[/b] ('The cross is steady while the world is turning. The Carthusians were greatest promoters of Christian mysticism. The image in the right top corner looks like Glagolitic letter S (SLOVO - letter or word, and the Word in mystical tradition stands for God. I also identified the 'castle' in the same corner as a Carthusian monastery, where in the mid-15th century the Swabian Carthusian Nicholas Kempf wrote a book Mystical theology. Assuming that the author of the VM substituted the Host with a symbol for Word, the monstranca in a shape of Glagolitic letter (word) SLOVO becomes very meaningful.
The words in the T-O image, according to my transliteration and translation are also related to Carthusian spiritualit: pray, bless, repent.