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Kép Bocskay György, Mira calligraphiae monumenta (1561-62) című művéből, melyet Joris Hoefnagel illuminált

Fol. 131, 325. lap


Folio 131

C

CANTABO DOMINO IN VITA MEA , PSALLAM DEO MEO QUAM DIU SUM. PSAL. IO3

Pss 103.33: Cantabo Domino in vita mea, Psallam Deo meo quamsiu sum (103.33: I will sing to the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I still have my being).

The letter C initiates a series of illuminations based on the theme of praising God. The scrollwork that frames the finished, as opposed to the constructed, letter forms a lectern that supports a small songbook partly hidden by a stylized lyre. The activities of singing (cantabo) and its instrumental accompaniment (psallam; literally, to play the psaltery) are referred to by almost every other motif in the illumination. Thus sing the cherub with half-open mouth and the two thrushes (Turdus philomelos) with open beaks, all with their heads turned toward heaven.

Hanging down on both sides of this folio are woodwind and string instruments - tied together with tasseled ribbons - which yield soft tones that blend harmoniously with the human voice. At the left are a spelter, a shawm, and a cister; at the right, a lute replaces the latter instrument. Below them, on both sides of the executed letter, bright parrots alight on the marbled scrollwork. Though the parrot is not a songbird, they too have open beaks. From the Middle Ages on, the capacity of the parrot to imitate the human voice fostered its symbolic identification with the devout person.17 Thus, here the creatures of heaven (angels) and earth (humans, birds) sing and make music to praise the Lord. Within this holy concert, only the two insects in the bottom corners of the scrollwork frame are out of tune.


Lee Hendrix and Thea Vignau-Wilberg: Mira calligraphiae monumenta: A Sixteenth-Century Calligraphic Manuscript Inscribed by Georg Bocskay and Illuminated by Joris Hoefnagel. THE J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM MALIBU, I992

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