Concordantia caritatis – Maundy Thursday, Institution of the Eucharist

Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 75v
DE CORPORE CHRISTI
QUI MANDUCAT HUNC PANEM UIUET
Hic est panis qui de caelo descendit. Non sicut manducaverunt patres vestri manna, et mortui sunt. Qui manducat hunc panem, vivet in aeternum.
This is the bread that came down from heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead. He that eateth this bread, shall live for ever.
John 6.59
TRADITUR HAC CENA CHRISTI CRUOR ET CARO PLENA. QUO CONFORTANTUR BENE QUI DOMINO FAMULANTUR
PSALMUS.
PANIS COR HOMINIS CONFIRMER
Et vinum laetificet cor hominis; ut exhilaret faciem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.
And that wine may cheer the heart of man. That he may make the face cheerful with oil: and that bread may strengthen man’s heart.
Psalm 103.15
 GENESIS .49.
PINGUIS PANIS EIUS ET PREBEBIT DELICIAS
Aser, pinguis panis ejus, et praebebit delicias regibus.
Aser, his bread shall be fat, and he shall yield dainties to kings.
Genesis 49.20
PROUERBIORUM .9.
PANIS ABSCONDITUS SUAUIOR EST
Aquae furtivae dulciores sunt, et panis absconditus suavior.
Stolen waters are sweeter, and hidden bread is more pleasant.
Proverbs 9.17
SAPIENCIE.
QUI EDUNT ME ADHUC ESURIENT
Qui edunt me, adhuc esurient, et qui bibunt me, adhuc sitient.
They that eat me, shall yet hunger: and they that drink me, shall yet thirst.
Ecclesiasticus 24.29
MAN PLUIT E CELIS. QUOD SUMIT TURBA FIDELIS
Exodus 16.13–31
AGNUS PASCE
AGNUS SUMATUR MALE PLEBS NE PERCUCIATUR
Exodus 12.3–20, 28
PAUO
NUMQUE PUTRESCIT PAUO MORTUA CUM UETERESCIT
GALLINE
OUANT GALLINE SI PER ORDEA SINT BENE PASCE

Transcriptions of inscriptions from the Index of Medieval Art; translations are my own, rough as they may be, if not from source in public domain.

Concordantia caritatis – Maundy Thursday, Last Supper

Morgan Library, MS M.1045, fol. 74v
IN CENA DOMINI
HOC EST CORPUS MEUM
Coenantibus autem eis, accepit Jesus panem, et benedixit, ac fregit, deditque discipulis suis, et ait : Accipite, et comedite : hoc est corpus meum.
And whilst they were at supper, Jesus took bread, and blessed, and broke: and gave to his disciples, and said: Take ye, and eat. This is my body.
Matthew 26.26
REX SEDET IN CENA TURBA CUNCTIS DUODENA. SE TENET IN MANIBUS SE CIBAT IPSE CIBUS
PSALMUS.
DIUISIS UNIUERSIS SINGULOS TORTAM PANIS
Et divisit universis per singulos, a viro usque ad mulierem, tortam panis, et partem assae carnis bubalae, et frixam oleo similam.
And he divided to all and every one, both men and women, a loaf of bread, and a piece of roasted beef, and flour fried with oil.
1 Paralipomenon 16.3
YSAIE. 36.
MANUS EIUS DIUISIT ILLIS
Et ipse misit eis sortem, et manus ejus divisit eam illis in mensuram : usque in aeternum possidebunt eam; in generationem et generationem habitabunt in ea.
And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it to them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation they shall dwell therein.
Isaias 34.17
GENESIS .10.
LARGITUS EST MUNERA
filiis autem concubinarum largitus est munera, et separavit eos ab Isaac filio suo, dum adhuc ipse viveret, ad plagam orientalem.
And to the children of the concubines he gave gifts, and separated them from Isaac his son, while he yet lived, to the east country.
Genesis 25.6
HESTER .16.
DONA LARGITUS EST IUXTA MAGNIFICENCIAM
Et jussit convivium praeparari permagnificum cunctis principibus et servis suis pro conjunctione et nuptiis Esther. Et dedit requiem universis provinciis, ac dona largitus est juxta magnificentiam principalem.
And he commanded a magnificent feast to be prepared for all the princes, and for his servants, for the marriage and wedding of Esther. And he gave rest to all the provinces, and bestowed gifts according to princely magnificence.
Esther 2.18
ASSUERUS
CONUIUIUM GRANDE REX ASSUERUS FECIT ESSE
MELCHISEDECH
ABRAHAM
UINUM CUM PANE MELCHISEDECH OBTULIT ABRE
LEO
INTER UTRASQUE FERAS LEO SEMPER DIUIDIT ESCAS
OUES
HERBIS SE PASCUNT OUES AST HYEMEM FORE NOSCUNT

Transcriptions of inscriptions from the Index of Medieval Art; translations are my own, rough as they may be, if not from source in public domain.

28 March – Saint Sixtus III

Saint Sixte III (France, Paris. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des manuscrits, Grec 923 f.256)
Palazzo Altieri
Compositions artistiques (about)
The Book of Saints

Modern Hagiography

Bibliotheca Sanctorum

Roman Martyrology

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

La vie des saints

Medieval Hagiography

BHL, Supplementum

Sancta Sanctorum

Liber Pontificalis

Writings

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Art & Architecture

Index of Medieval Art

Catalogo generale dei beni culturali

Portail Biblissima

Europeana

Medieval Religion Listserv

Santa Maria Maggiore

Galleria dei Papi in the Palazzo Altieri
Saints and their Emblems

Caractéristiques des saints dans l’art populaire by Charles Cahier – image de la Tres-Sainte Vierge.