The Oviedo Sudarium is a little known object that has been in Spain since the early seventh century. Quite apart from the debate as to whether it could be the sudarium mentioned in the gospel of John, the cloth forms part of the history of Spain and the Pilgrims Road to Santiago. Oviedo was a frequent detour on the route to Compostela, precisely so that pilgrims could visit the sudarium (or at least the ark it was kept in) and other articles that had come from Jerusalem at the time of the Persian invasion in AD 614. This ...
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The Oviedo Sudarium is a little known object that has been in Spain since the early seventh century. Quite apart from the debate as to whether it could be the sudarium mentioned in the gospel of John, the cloth forms part of the history of Spain and the Pilgrims Road to Santiago. Oviedo was a frequent detour on the route to Compostela, precisely so that pilgrims could visit the sudarium (or at least the ark it was kept in) and other articles that had come from Jerusalem at the time of the Persian invasion in AD 614. This book tells the detailed history of the Sudarium's movements from Jerusalem to Spain and its history within the peninsula, how it was affected by the invasion of Ad 711 and how it eventually came to form part of the heritage of the city of Oviedo and the principality of Asturias. Testaments, the corpus pelagianum, the story of the possessed girl) and many texts are edited for the first time (the first critical edition of the story contained in the group of manuscripts Valenciennes 30, Brussels II 2544 and Cambrai B 804, the first comparison of the texts in the Book of Testaments and those in the corpus pelagianum). Apart from the history of an object that is worthy of study in itself, the book sheds light on the history of the Pilgrims' Road to Santiago, and the general medieval history of Spain.
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26pp plates. Minor wear. VG. 23x15cm, xvii, 171, (26)p, Series: Spanish Studies, vol. 31. Contents Preface / Juan Ignacio Ruiz de la Pena--1. Pelagius of Oviedo and the book of testaments--2. Pelagius of Oviedo and the corpus pelagianum--3. Valenciennes 99--4. Valenciennes 30, Brussels II 2544 and Cambrai B-804--5. The silos chronicle--6. Lucas de Tuy--7. A comparison of the different sources--8. The Sudarium of Oviedo and the Sudarium of Jesus of Nazareth--App. I. Antonini Placentini Itinerarium XII--App. II. Liber Testamentorum f. 1vA-3rB--App. III. The corpus pelagianum--App. IV. Codex Valenciennes 99--App. V. Critical edition of cod: Valenciennes 30, Cambrai B-804 and Brussels II 2544--App. VI. Monachis Silensis Chronicon 28--App. VII. Lucas de Tuy, Chronicon Mundi--App. VIII. The letter of Osmund, Bishop of Astorga--App. IX. Codex Toledo 14-25--App. X. Concilium Bracarense IV App. XI. Visigothic kings of Spain from 586 to 711--App. XII. Kings of Asturias/Leon up to Alfonso VI--App. XIII. Emperors of Byzantium from 518 to 717.
