Mitra z hrobu „ctihodného Bernarda, biskupa pražského“

• Authors: Milena Bravermanová

Title variants

EN

THE MITRE FROM THE GRAVE OF „VENERABLE BERNARD, THE PRAGUE BISHOP“

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The Prague bishop Bernard died in 1240 and was buried to the Romanesque basilica St. Vitus first, the grave was transferred than to the Gothic cathedral St. Vitus in 1374. The place was opened in 1928 and the funerary equipment – textiles above all – was elevated. The fragmentary preserved mitre was conserved in 2005–2006 by Angelica Sliwka. A precious mitre (so called auriphrygiata) is made of silken patterned fabric (lampas) woven somewhere in the Near East in 12th century. The mitre was probably white in the past and was very richly embroidered above all with metal threads, in some parts with colour threads. Although the embroidery is damaged and the determination of particular persons is not without doubts, it can be assumed that the trimming motive is Dominated Christ, Our lady, Jan of Baptist (?, the figure is missing), St. Paulus and St. Petrus (this figure is now missing, but it was documented in the past). In the lower strip (circulus) there were five figures, some details attest that it could have been Czech saints – St. Ludmila, St. Vitus, St. Adalbert, St. Wenceslaus and St. Procopius or St. Bernard z Clervaux (?) The fanons of the mitre and the space among the figures are trimmed by plants pattern and the motive of half moon. The mitre could have been embroidered in Bohemia, Italy or Germany.

Keywords

EN

MITRE; PRAGUE BISHOP BERNARD; LAMPAS EMBROIDERY; CZECH PATRONS

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 7-45

Contributors

author

Milena Bravermanová

• Správa Pražského hradu, Oddělení uměleckých sbírek, Praha 1, Czech Republic