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UIDB/04666/2020 UIDP/04666/2020 During the opening of the tomb of the Blessed Isabel, Infanta of Aragon and Queen of Portugal —the wife of King D. Dinis— in March 1612, in order to continue her canonization process, there were found, deposited on top of the coffin, some personal objects: the staff and a small leather pouch offered by the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela during her pilgrimage in 1325. Acquiring an immediate spiritual value as an authentic relic, the pilgrim’s staff was disposed for veneration within a silvery reliquary, executed between 1612 and 1614, and later transported in a pompous processional parade during the feasts held in Coimbra on the occasion of her canonization announced in 1625, while the pouch and a fragment of the staff were sent to the Court of King D. Filipe III of Portugal – IV of Spain. We favored, as the main lines of research in the field of Art History, the presentation of the data obtained after a rigorous material analysis of the staff and a thorough consultation of the available documented sources concerning the only relic of the so-called Holy Queen Isabel’s Treasure displayed for public adoration, within the historic chronological frame from 1325 to 1625. publishersversion published

During the opening of the tomb of the Blessed Isabel, Infanta of Aragon and Queen of Portugal —the wife of King D. Dinis— in March 1612, in order to continue her canonization process, there were found, deposited on top of the coffin, some personal objects: the staff and a small leather pouch offered by the Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela during her pilgrimage in 1325. Acquiring an immediate spiritual value as an authentic relic, the pilgrim’s staff was disposed for veneration within a silvery reliquary, executed between 1612 and 1614, and later transported in a pompous processional parade during the feasts held in Coimbra on the occasion of her canonization announced in 1625, while the pouch and a fragment of the staff were sent to the Court of King D. Filipe III of Portugal – IV of Spain. We favored, as the main lines of research in the field of Art History, the presentation of the data obtained after a rigorous material analysis of the staff and a thorough consultation of the available documented sources concerning the only relic of the so-called Holy Queen Isabel’s Treasure displayed for public adoration, within the historic chronological frame from 1325 to 1625. Durante la apertura de la tumba de la Beata Isabel, infanta de Aragón y reina de Portugal —esposa del rey D. Dinis—, en marzo de 1612, para dar continuidad a su proceso de canonización, fueron encontrados, depositados sobre el ataúd, algunos objetos personales: el bordón y la escarcela ofrecidos por el arzobispo de Santiago de Compostela durante su peregrinación en 1325. Adquiriendo un valor espiritual inmediato, como una auténtica reliquia, el bordón de peregrina fue dispuesto a la veneración de los fieles dentro de un relicario de plata, ejecutado entre 1612 y 1614, y luego transportado en una pomposa procesión durante las fiestas celebradas en Coimbra con motivo de su canonización, alcanzada en 1625, mientras que la escarcela y un fragmento del bordón fueron enviados a la Corte de D. Felipe III de Portugal – IV de España. Privilegiamos, como líneas principales de investigación en el campo de la Historia del Arte, la presentación de los datos obtenidos tras un riguroso análisis material y de una consulta exhaustiva de las fuentes documentales disponibles que se refieren a la única reliquia del llamado Tesoro de la Reina Isabel dispuesta para la veneración pública, dentro de un cuadro cronológico histórico comprendido entre 1325 y 1625.

The paper takes a systematic approach to the hitherto unpublished relic of St John the Baptist’s right arm which is kept in a cache in Siena cathedral. It includes the available historical information about the relic’s journey from Serbia until its arrival in Siena (1464) and the circumstances in which it came into the possession of pope Pius II. It provides a detailed description both of the relic and of the reliquary, an exquisite piece of medieval goldsmithing and filigree work with few direct analogies. Particular attention is devoted to the inscription on the reliquary lid: “Right arm of John the Forerunner, cover me, Sava the Serbian archbishop.” Based on the inscription, the reliquary is identified as one of the founding objects of the treasury of the monastery of Žiča (the Serbian cathedral and coronation church) which was gradually built up in the first decades of the thirteenth century through the effort of Sava of Serbia. Discussed in the context of this topic are also the “veil” and the “cushion”, the luxurious textiles in which the Baptist’s arm was brought to Siena. [Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. 177003: Medieval heritage of the Balkans: institutions and culture]

раду је приказана богата и изузетно значајна колекција накита из Етнографске збирке Музеја у Приштини, с посебним освртом на поједине примерке накита који се, према времену настанка и употребе везују за крај XVII, XVIII и XIX век и представљају наставак дуге традиције у изради накита на Косову и Метохији. На основу досад објављених резултата и поређењa са археолошким материјалом из музејских збирки, указано је на претрајавање појединих врста средњовековног накита у традиционалном народном накиту, уз праћење, колико је то било могуће, њиховог континуитета и транс формација.. The paper presents the rich and remarkably important Collection of Ethnographic Material Jewelry of the Museum of Priština, focusing on some examples of jewelry that are associated with the late seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in terms of their date of creation and use and represent the continuation of the long tradition of jewelry making in Kosovo and Metohija. Based on hereto published results and a comparison with archeological material in museum collections, the paper highlights the endurance of some types of medieval jewelry in the corpus of traditional national jewelry, while attempting to retrace their continuity and transformations as far as possible.