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| Title: | Martyrs and the Pure Sing Praises to God |
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| Notes: | "In the absence of computers and calculators, a highly elaborate system of finger-counting and gestural sign-language developed in the Middle Ages for representing numbers and facilitating conceptual reasoning. These are often represented graphically in medieval manuscripts and provide an insight into teaching and learning practices in this period...
[A] prominent use of hand diagrams in the Middle Ages is for the study of music. In the early tenth century, a monk called Guido of Arezzo derived the solfège method to aid monks to learn how to sight-sing with ease, assigning each note of a six-note scale a syllable (in Guido’s case, ut, re, mi, fa, sol, and la). The ‘Guidonian hand’ elaborated this system by assigning a note to each part of the hand. This allowed singers to understand how notes related to each other...
The versatility of the hand, with its nineteen ‘common locations’ meant that it could be used to represent a number of different things – dates, music, and even...to facilitate prayer, with each location on the hand given a different contemplative value for ‘meditatio nocturna per manum’."
-- from the project blog of “Turning Over a New Leaf: Manuscript Innovation in the Twelfth Century” based at the Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Universiteit Leiden. |
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| Date: | 1475 |
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| Artist: | Marmion, Simon, 1420-1489 |
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| Building: | J. Paul Getty Museum
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| Object/Function: | Books and manuscripts |
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| City/Town: | Malibu
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| State: | CA
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| Country: | United States
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| Scripture: | Isaiah 12:2-6
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| Lectionary links: | CAdvt03
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| General Subject: | Singing
Hands
Martyrs
Music
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| Attribution: | Marmion, Simon, 1420-1489. Martyrs and the Pure Sing Praises to God, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56034 [retrieved May 10, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simon_Marmion_(Flemish,_active_1450_-_1489)_-_The_Martyrs_and_the_Pure_Sing_Praises_to_God_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg. |
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| Record Number: | 56034
Last Updated: 2021-10-18 16:52:34
Record Created: 2015-09-28 13:27:34 |
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| Institution: | Vanderbilt University
Collection: Art in the Christian Tradition |
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