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| Cod. 231 | ||
| Bordure made for a liturgical alb. Bruges bobbin lace, worked in separate pieces. White, two-strands linen thread, loosely twisted. The wide lace, made to decorate the lower edge of the liturgical vestment, has been worked in a tubular shape in order to avoid making unavoidably visible seams during the manufacturing process. The motives are made using cloth and half stitch. The ground is composed by a net with large square meshes and double hexagonal meshes with a picot. At the upper border there is a bobbin-made tape worked in cloth stitch with the same thread used in the bordure. The lower border is indented and finished with irregular corollas lying on the ground. The ornamentation characterized by figures is framed into circular medallions suspended among vegetable compositions with large volutes. The medallions include a complex Christian representation meant to be read symbolically. The two facing male deer drinking from the fountain pouring from the Cross indicate the spiritual life of man, but are at the same time identifiable as representations of Jesus Christ. Behind them there is the cross of martyrdom, heaved on Mount Golgotha. Among ancient civilizations, the deer was represented near the spring that had the power to heal him from poisoning, or from the wounds inflicted to it by hunters, that helps it in the fight with the snake, the malefic symbol by excellence. The representation is structured according to a scheme very well known in early-Christian and Corinthian times; the same motive can be seen in the mosaic in the apse of the Basilica of St. John in Lateran in Rome. | ||
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