Building Name

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Notre-Dame-la-Grande  

Location

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Choir

Capital

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1

Subject

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Sculptor or donor

Description

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Dated end of 11th and beginning of 12th century Decorative 3rd on north side

Reference

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The name Rotbertus is the name of the sculptor or donor. The placement and arrangement of the text on the capital corresponds to analogous inscriptions from the regions (see Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, Saint-Pierre de Chauvigny, et Saint-Hilaire de Melle). The remaining text is an enigma. One hypothesis suggests that it is a form of v[eni] auster, from the Song of Songs (4, 16), which is found at the the beginning of a twelfth-century sermon found in the Distinctiones of Pierre de Poitiers (Haureau, "Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la Bibliothèque nationale, t. I, Paris 1890, p.19[ms. lat. 455].

Corpus Ref.

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Vol. 1 Ville de Poitiers, 21