Storage library
|
|
|
|
Limburg storage library , open condition and cover
|
||
A staurothek (from ancient Greek σταυρός staurós "cross" and θήκη théke "container, box") is a reliquary in which parts of the cross of Christ are kept.
The cross on which Jesus Christ was crucified is called the true cross of Christ . From the end of the 4th century, cross relics became a particular object of worship in Christendom. For the storage of the wood splinters, particularly preciously furnished reliquaries, the storage libraries, were made.
The most famous Byzantine storage libraries include the Limburg storage libraries , the storage libraries in Esztergom , the storage libraries in Cortona , the Fieschi-Morgan storage libraries and the storage libraries for Cardinal Bessarion . Byzantine storage archives were partially reworked and supplemented in the west, such as a reliquary in the Louvre or the Stavelot triptych .
See also
literature
- Anatole Frolow: La relique de la vraie croix. Recherches sur le développement d'un culte (= Archives de l'Orient Chretien Volume 7). Institut Français d'Études Byzantines, Paris 1961 (with a complete catalog of all medieval storage collections).
- Anatole Frolow: Les reliquaires de la Vraie Croix (= Archives de l'Orient Chretien Volume 8). Institut Français d'Études Byzantines, Paris 1965 (commentary on the previous work).
- Holger A. Klein : Byzantium, the West and the “true” cross. The history of a relic and its artistic version in Byzantium and in the West (= Late Antiquity - Early Christianity - Byzantium. Art in the First Millennium, Series B: Studies and Perspectives, Volume 17). Reichert, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 978-3-89500-316-5 .
