In Pamplona Cathedral, an image of Christ Crucified is venerated which presides over an original altarpiece from the beginning of the 16th century – no doubt recomposed in the 19th century – made up of sixteen patriarchs from the Old Testament wearing phylacteries, whose texts reveal their inspiration in the French late medieval Mysteries. The altarpiece of the Christ of Caparroso originally appeared, together with the altarpiece of Saint Thomas, in the funerary chapel of Pedro Marcilla de Caparroso, whose tombstone has recently been recovered. The extensive representation of prophets and other characters from the Old Law in the altarpiece of Santo Cristo has led me to propose as a possible source the Mystery Secundum legem debet mori, by Denis Roce, or some other lost text. This text forms part of the large number of Moralities and Mysteries throughout Europe, but which originated in France, based on verse 7 of chapter 19 of the Gospel of John Nos legem habemus et secundum legem debet mori. In the aforementioned Mystery, the theatrical foundation was sought for the prophets of the “well of Moses” of the Charterhouse of Charnprnol, some of whose verses appear in the Myst&e de Rouergue, whose main source is the Preces de Bélia, written in Aversa (Naples). The Virgin plays an extraordinarily active role in the process. She pleads with the prophets, as judges, the cause of her Son condemned to die. She hoped to obtain a favourable sentence from them in order to spare him death. The prophets, however, pronounced inexorable verses taken from their books. They all answer, by their respective prophecies, that in order to save men, Christ must die. Throughout this study I make an excursus on the various medieval sources of the Mysteries in Sermons and Meditations, which stirred society in the autumn of the Middle Ages.
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Project: 10. Churches and religions in Europe., 11. Science and culture as representation in Europe.
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Owner: Arqueological National Museum of Spain (MAN) (Modernalia)
Abstract: In Pamplona Cathedral, an image of Christ Crucified is venerated which presides over an original altarpiece from the beginning of the 16th century - no doubt recomposed in the 19th century - made up of sixteen patriarchs from the Old Testament wearing phylacteries, whose texts reveal their inspiration in the French late medieval Mysteries. The altarpiece of the Christ of Caparroso originally appeared, together with the altarpiece of Saint Thomas, in the funerary chapel of Pedro Marcilla de Caparroso, whose tombstone has recently been recovered. The extensive representation of prophets and other characters from the Old Law in the altarpiece of Santo Cristo has led me to propose as a possible source the Mystery Secundum legem debet mori, by Denis Roce, or some other lost text. This text forms part of the large number of Moralities and Mysteries throughout Europe, but which originated in France, based on verse 7 of chapter 19 of the Gospel of John Nos legem habemus et secundum legem debet mori. In the aforementioned Mystery, the theatrical foundation was sought for the prophets of the "well of Moses" of the Charterhouse of Charnprnol, some of whose verses appear in the Myst&e de Rouergue, whose main source is the Preces de Bélia, written in Aversa (Naples). The Virgin plays an extraordinarily active role in the process. She pleads with the prophets, as judges, the cause of her Son condemned to die. She hoped to obtain a favourable sentence from them in order to spare him death. The prophets, however, pronounced inexorable verses taken from their books. They all answer, by their respective prophecies, that in order to save men, Christ must die. Throughout this study I make an excursus on the various medieval sources of the Mysteries in Sermons and Meditations, which stirred society in the autumn of the Middle Ages.
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