Nov 10, 2011
"Unknown Artist. Minstrels with a Rebec & a Lute. 13th c. Manasseh Codex. El Escorial, Madrid."
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"Unknown Artist. Minstrels with a Rebec & a Lute. 13th c. Manasseh Codex. El Escorial, Madrid."
(via Stained-Glass Panel [France] (37.173.3) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Stained-Glass Panel, ca. 1245–1248 France, Tours, Ambulatory of the Cathedral of Saint-Gatien Pot-metal glass and vitreous paint
King Louis IX of France (r. 1226–70), later Saint Louis, undertook two crusades to the Holy Land. He acquired relics of Christ's passion from his cousin, the Latin emperor of Constantinople Baldwin II, most notably a piece of the True Cross and also the Crown of Thorns. He brought these relics to Paris and installed them in the Sainte-Chapelle, a church that he had built to house them. According to a contemporary chronicle, on the way to Paris Louis stopped at Sens, where the Crown of Thorns was placed in the cathedral overnight. This panel shows Louis at Sens with his brother and some courtiers. Clad in simple clothes, the crowned King Louis carries the extraordinary relic atop a chalice.
Source: Stained-Glass Panel [France] (37.173.3) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
(via The Luck of Edenhall: history & myths - Victoria and Albert Museum)
The Luck of Edenhall: A glass beaker decorated with gold and coloured enamels, produced in Syria in the 13th century.
The first printed account of the Luck appeared in The Gentleman's Magazine for August 1791. Sir William Musgrave wrote
'The late agent of the family had such a reverential regard for this glass that he would not suffer any person to touch it, and few to see it. When the family, or other curious people, had a desire to drink out of it, a napkin was held underneath, lest any accident should befall it; and it is still carefully preserved, in a case made on purpose... Tradition our only guide here, says, that a party of Fairies were drinking and making merry round a well near the Hall, called St. Cuthbert's well; but being interrupted by the intrusion of some curious people, they were frightened, and made a hasty retreat, and left the cup in question: one of the last screaming out, If this cup should break or fall, Farewell the Luck of Edenhall.'