On the description of the ciborium of the Altar of the Apostle in the Pilgrim´s Guide to Santiago de Compostela
2021
Abstract
This paper focuses on the 12th-century Pilgrim´s Guide to Santiago de Compostela (Liber sancti Iacobi), especially the passage describing the ciborium above the altar of Saint James. In describing the artistic decoration of thes section in the Latin text, the author uses a term that has n parallel essewhere, and this paper, therefore, seeks to interpret it in the context of the vernacular Romance languages.