المؤلف
Unknown
مكان النشر
Egypt (made) -
الموضوع
Christianity Africa
النوع
أخرى
اللغة
غير محدد
رقمي
نعم
مخطوط
لا
الأبعاد الفيزيائية
Width: 19 3/4in, Length: 16 3/4in
المكتبة
Victoria and Albert Museum
معرف أصل المكتبة
1312-1871
رقم السجل
1312-1871
موقع المكتبة
Middle East Section
ملاحظات
Ecclesiastical veil or aër, satin ground with gold, silver and blue silk embroidery. Coptic, 18th century; embroidereds, Egyptian; Inscription
Tarihsel bağlam
The Aer is worn by the priest in the Orthodox rite during the Great Entrance as the Holy Gifts are taken from the Prothesis to the altar. It is then used to cover the Gifts (the Chalice and Diskarion) after their small covers have been removed. (This act symbolises the rock covering the entrance to Christ's tomb.) Then, as the Creed is recited the celebrant fans the chalice and diskarion with the Aer, thus symbolising, according to some, the earthquake which occurred when Christ arose from the dead (Matthew 28:1-2). After the recitation of the Creed, the Aer is folded and placed on the Chalice as a cover, to be removed only at the consecratioon of the bread and wine. When a bishop celebrates the Eucharist, the Aer is held and lightly shaken above his head by priests, to symbolise the ancient custom of lowering a curtain from the conch above the altar to protect the prepared Gifts.
Fiziksel açıklama
Crimson satin ground worked with gold, silver and blue embroidery. The pattern consists of a central roundel with four floriated arms, set on a field filled in with Coptic inscriptions and surrounded with a broad border between two narrower bands; a scroll pattern in the latter, and inscriptions in the former, at each of the corners of which is a cross and circle device. Canvas back.
Üslup
Coptic
