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William Of Tyre
William Of Tyre
In 1171 Archbishop William of Tyre was admitted, he says, into the imperial treasury, where saw the syndon of Christ. This is the ordinary New Testament word for a body shroud and its sometime use in these contexts to denote the Edessa cloth seems only to hint further that either the Edessa cloth was larger than a face-towel or that another cloth, large and bloodstained, was present in the treasury.3 4 After this time, both the Edessa cloth and the burial linens regularly appear in the same inventories. In 1200 the inventory of Antonius of Novgorod similarly names two linen cloths: linteum and linteum representing the face of Christ."3 5 Recall that earlier documents had tended towards the conclusion that the Edessa cloth was large (tetradiplon) and bloodied, and therefore might be identical with that cloth reputed in the inventories to be the burial wrapping of Jesus. The text of Antonius does nothing to elucidate those conclusions. Scavone Introduction to Several Documents Scavone Summary of Several Documents Narratio De Imagine Edessena 944 Symeon Magister 944 Gregory Referendarius 944 Letter Of Constantine VII 958 Liturgical Tractate CA. 960 Alexius I Comnenus English Pilgrim 1150 Nicholas Soemundarson 1157 William Of Tyre Nicholas Mesarites 1201 Antonius Of Novgorod Robert Of Clari 1203 Nicholas Mesarites 1207 Nicholas Of Otranto 1207 Theodore AngelusÂ’ Letter 1205 Baldwin II: Golden Bull 1247 "
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