Episode Twenty in the AIC’s The New Testament: Gospels Bible Study Video series was completed in the revised version earlier today and was uploaded this afternoon. Topics include the final unique parable, the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Publican in KJV); plus commentary on unique content including the Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain, the Healing of the Ten Lepers and the Sending and Return of the Seventy. Other illustrations are an engraving by Gustav Dore’, two watercolors by James Tissot, and an early 13th C. miniature illumination of Jesus Teaching (originally used to illustrate Matthew 5).
This week’s featured illustration is from the Codex Aureus of Echternach, produced in the 2nd Qtr of the 11th C. at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Willibrod, Echternach, then Germany and now Luxembourg, from the collection of the German National Library, Nuremberg, Germany, which acquired the manuscript in the 20th C. in order to keep it in Germany. In the original the scene was paired with the Healing of Blind Bartimaeus on the bottom line on a three-line page with six scenes.. The 96 dpi version barely does justice to the original. I’ve limited its size in order to enhance the detail.
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Episode Twenty-one and Episode Twenty-two were recorded yesterday. I have now completed the rebuild of the script and slides for Episode Forty-five, the final episode on the Gospel of St. John. On the present schedule I hope to complete and release one video/podcast per week through the end of the year and complete the uploads in January A.D. 2020. I’ll have to double up somewhere, with two per week, if my voice will permit, in order to complete the work by then.
As always, thanks for you interest and support. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
Episode Fifteen in the revised and expanded version of our Bible Study Video series, New Testament: Gospels, is now online in video and podcast versions. Topics are St. Luke’s unique boyhood narrative and the baptism of Christ. There are 10 illustrations from the 11th, 12th, 16th, 19th and early 20th C. I’ve chosen the oldest, an Ottonian-era illumination of the Baptism of Christ from the Hitda Codex, named for the Abbess of Meschede, Germany and made circa 1020 A.D. in the Cologne region. It includes imaginative coloration and decoration, with a starry sky, a fish-filled river Jordan, and a heaven-sent dove. I hope a viewer can tell me what the recumbent figure at lower right represents. The original is in the Hessische Landesbibliotek, Darmstadt, Germany, but this version came from the Yorck Project’s 10,000 Masterworks DVD.
The episode is loaded with many of the examples of historic art added to our library in the last year. Few in the Western Church are aware that St. Luke is credited in the Eastern Church and among many Roman Catholics as the first icon-painter. The episode includes St. Luke Painting the Virgin Mary, a miniature illumination (less than 1″) in colored inks and gold on parchment with an elaborate floral border from The Gospels of Luke and John, a codex made in England in the 1st Quarter of the 16th C., from Ms. Royal 1 E V, Folio 3, British Library, London, England. The image is so small that I could not use it here. Instead, I offer another you, St. Luke Writing His Gospel, an illumination in tempera and gilt on vellum from the St. Augustine Gospels, begun in Italy (presumably Rome) in the 6th C. and completed in England after being given to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, by St. Gregory the Great. The original is at Cambridge, CCC Library Mss 286, Folio 129v. This version is in lower resolution for internet use. The version in the video is 300 dpi. Both versions have been modified with perspective correction technology.
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