Suaire de Saint-Josse (original) (raw)
Le Suaire de Saint-Josse est une œuvre d'art islamique provenant de l'Iran oriental. Il enveloppait les reliques de saint Josse (m. 669) dans l'abbaye du même nom, située dans l'actuel Pas-de-Calais. Il s'agit d'un samit de soie conservé en plusieurs fragments au musée du Louvre.
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| dbo:abstract | Le Suaire de Saint-Josse est une œuvre d'art islamique provenant de l'Iran oriental. Il enveloppait les reliques de saint Josse (m. 669) dans l'abbaye du même nom, située dans l'actuel Pas-de-Calais. Il s'agit d'un samit de soie conservé en plusieurs fragments au musée du Louvre. (fr) The Suaire de Saint-Josse, the "Shroud of Saint Josse" that is now conserved in the Musée du Louvre, is a rich silk samite saddle cloth that was woven in northeastern Iran, some time before 961, when Abu Mansur Bakhtegin, the "camel-prince" for whom it was woven, was beheaded. It was brought back from the First Crusade by Étienne de Blois and dedicated as a votive gift at the Abbey of Saint-Josse, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. It has been described as "the major landmark in early Islamic silk weaving". This fragmentary textile with elephants woven into the design is the only known surviving example of a silk textile produced in Eastern Iran, in the royal workshops of the Samanid dynasty, probably at either Merv or Nishapur. The "prince" referred to in the woven Kufic inscription, though decipherable in more than one way, is most likely to refer to the general and emir Bukhtegin, active in the service of 'Abd al-Malik I, the Samanid sultan of Khorasan, 954-61. The cloth is now in two fragments, which are regarded as comprising about half of the original piece. They are 52 x 94 cm and 24.5 x 62 cm respectively, the first measurement being the length. The design was somewhat like a carpet (not that any from this date survive), with a central field containing two pairs of confronted elephants, one above the other, of which one pair survive. There is then a thin border with geometric patterns, outside which the sides have friezes of repeated camels and at least the bottom (which survives) an inscription in Kufic script. In all there are five zones of border between the elephants and the edge of the cloth. Like many trophies of foreign adventure, both in the Middle Ages and in more modern times, in its new context, the rare textile was given new meaning, for it was used to wrap the bones of Saint Josse when he was reinterred in 1134. The Abbey of Saint-Josse was closed in 1772, and the buildings were sold and demolished after the French Revolution, in 1791. No trace is left of the monumental buildings. The suaire was acquired by the Louvre in 1922. (en) |
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| rdfs:comment | Le Suaire de Saint-Josse est une œuvre d'art islamique provenant de l'Iran oriental. Il enveloppait les reliques de saint Josse (m. 669) dans l'abbaye du même nom, située dans l'actuel Pas-de-Calais. Il s'agit d'un samit de soie conservé en plusieurs fragments au musée du Louvre. (fr) The Suaire de Saint-Josse, the "Shroud of Saint Josse" that is now conserved in the Musée du Louvre, is a rich silk samite saddle cloth that was woven in northeastern Iran, some time before 961, when Abu Mansur Bakhtegin, the "camel-prince" for whom it was woven, was beheaded. It was brought back from the First Crusade by Étienne de Blois and dedicated as a votive gift at the Abbey of Saint-Josse, near Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais. It has been described as "the major landmark in early Islamic silk weaving". (en) |
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