. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. fe is shown in a stone inscription in the Museum at Lyons: HOC SPECVLO • SPECVLARE LEGENS ? QVOD SIS MORITVRVS:QVOD CINIS IMMOLVTVM QVOD VERMIBVS ESCA FVTVRVS:SED TAMEN VT SEMPER VIVAS ? MALE VIVERE VITA:XPM QVESO ROGA • SIT VT IN XPO MEA VITA:ME CAPVT APRIL • EX HOC RAPVIT LABER- INTO:PREBITVM • DOCEO VERSV MA FVNERA QNTO: STEPHANVS • FECIT OC. Whether this inscription was ever attached to a laby-rinthine design is not It is strange if, amongst alljthe great mass of mediaevalecclesiastical literature, there
. Mazes and labyrinths; a general account of their history and developments. fe is shown in a stone inscription in the Museum at Lyons: HOC SPECVLO • SPECVLARE LEGENS ? QVOD SIS MORITVRVS:QVOD CINIS IMMOLVTVM QVOD VERMIBVS ESCA FVTVRVS:SED TAMEN VT SEMPER VIVAS ? MALE VIVERE VITA:XPM QVESO ROGA • SIT VT IN XPO MEA VITA:ME CAPVT APRIL • EX HOC RAPVIT LABER- INTO:PREBITVM • DOCEO VERSV MA FVNERA QNTO: STEPHANVS • FECIT OC. Whether this inscription was ever attached to a laby-rinthine design is not It is strange if, amongst alljthe great mass of mediaevalecclesiastical literature, there is actually no indication ofthe use or significance of these monuments in the serviceof the Church; but no light appears to be forthcomingfrom this source, and certainly the writings of the chiefauthorities of these times give no support to any of thetheories mentioned above. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^za^zgaz^ga^gagaagz^. I. I % % % i i K M mmmzm p v////////////a& w///////////////////////^ fy v///////////////m w///////////a P 1 i A YA I ? 0 W/////WM^//////////W/A i. w//////Mm>m Y///////////////W////////////A g | ^mzmmmszs^sm^s^zsz^2s^sz2^zsmmz2m F Fig. 58.—Labyrinth in Church at Bourn, Cambs. (W. H. M.) £ ^y/y////////////////////y/////////m wzmmEZ&szzfflmzEZm It is noteworthy that in none of the known examplesdo any distinctively Christian emblems occur, and that,amongst all the myriad inscriptions, paintings, and carv-ings of the early Christians, in the catacombs of Romeand elsewhere, the labyrinth never once figures. So far as these islands are concerned the practice ofplacing labyrinths in churches does not seem to havebecome common. In the Architectural Dictionary (1867) mention is 69 made of one formerly existing in Canterbury Cathedral,but no particulars are given. On the floor below the tower of the church at Bourn,Cambridgeshire, is a maze (Fig. 58) worked in blackand red tiles, the centre being occupied by the font, thestep of which forms the terminus of the path
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