Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . ARABO-NORMAN WATER-JAR, MUSEUM, PALERMOThe style of the lettering, according to Dr. Moritz, is somewhat later than that of the inscription on the stele, PI. attached to the wall to the left of the jar, afragment of inscription inlaidin porphyry and serpentine [cf. p. 127). To the right the quadrilingual in-scription mentioned on p. 45. f. 298 LXVII. SICILIAN MANTU t- 299 LIFE IN MEDIAEVAL PALERMO The mantu is always held, never pinned, is made of black silk, the upper part linedwith sprigged silk or printed cot
Mediaeval Sicily, aspects of life and art in the middle ages . ARABO-NORMAN WATER-JAR, MUSEUM, PALERMOThe style of the lettering, according to Dr. Moritz, is somewhat later than that of the inscription on the stele, PI. attached to the wall to the left of the jar, afragment of inscription inlaidin porphyry and serpentine [cf. p. 127). To the right the quadrilingual in-scription mentioned on p. 45. f. 298 LXVII. SICILIAN MANTU t- 299 LIFE IN MEDIAEVAL PALERMO The mantu is always held, never pinned, is made of black silk, the upper part linedwith sprigged silk or printed cotton. It is veryfull and complicated in cut, not a mere semi-circle like the short white or cream-colouredmantles round the Etna, and the handsome richdark blue cloaks of the county of Modica {seechapter xiv.). The folds are all sewn together in abunch, held in place at the waist by one arm stuckakimbo. A certain demure swagger is thus derigueur. We are not very well off for illustrative materialfor the study of mediaeval Palermitan did not flourish in Sicily as itdid in the North. The interesting miniaturesillustrating the Carmen of Pietro da Eboli(PI. V.) are not, as far as I know and can judge,in any way distinctively Sicilian, Some information may doubtless be gathered, asI have tried to do above, from the later morehomely scenes, by Sicilian artists, of the mosaicsof Monreale, but
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