[Sca-cooks] Carolingian bread images
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
JIMCHEVAL at aol.com
Sat Feb 23 00:23:58 PST 2013
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
More information about the Sca-cooks
mailing list