[Sca-cooks] Carolingian bread images

[JIMCHEVAL at aol.com]

We've just touched on the problem of finding early medieval images of bread 
 and I mentioned I had found some in capital letters going back to 
Carolingian  times. Here now are two others, from what I can make out, of the same 
form of  bread, a low disk with what I originally took to be incisions 
forming a kind of  inwardly curving square, but now suspect to be the sides of a 
larger circle  folded over on four sides. At any rate, similar to each other 
and to some of the  other images I've seen from this period.

One is on the table at right in  an image of the Last Supper on a situla 
from the 9th century:

Situla (Bucket for Holy Water)
Date:860–880
Geography:Made in, northern France
Culture:Carolingian
Medium:Ivory with gilded copper-alloy mounts and foil inlays

http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/170004316?rpp=20
&pg=1&ft=Carolingian&img=2

_http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/170004316?rpp=2
0&pg=1&ft=Carolingian&img=2_ 
(http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/170004316?rpp=20&pg=1&ft=Carolingian&img=2) 


The other appears in two sizes on the table in this image of John  the 
Baptist's beheading:

cote cliché   RC-C-11405
légende   Décollation de  saint Jean Baptiste
département    Manuscrits occidentaux
cote  du document   LATIN 9386
exposition    2007 - Trésors  carolingiens, livres manuscrits de 
Charlemagne à Charles le Chauve
collection  ou fonds   Cathédrale de Chartres
période du document     Moyen âge
date du document ou du recueil   0850?-0900?

http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/Visualiseur?Destination=Daguerre&O=8011405&E=JPEG&
NavigationSimplifiee=ok&typeFonds=noir

http://images.bnf.fr/jsp/index.jsp?destination=afficherListeCliches.jsp&orig
ine=rechercherListeCliches.jsp&contexte=resultatRechercheSimple


Jim  Chevallier
www.chezjim.com

Newly translated from Pierre Jean-Baptiste  Le Grand d'Aussy:
Eggs, Cheese and Butter in Old Regime France