Can someone help me identify this pictorial on this panel?

[icedgold10]

It is a religious piece as you can tell.  It's a small fabric panel 9 1/2" x 6 1/2".  The back is plain.  Looking for country, meaning ect.  Thank you.

[mart]

Absolutely no clue !!

[icedgold10]

Haha  makes 2 of us.

[mart]

Whoever that is sitting there does not look happy !!

[Rauville]

Just guessing, but to me looks like the King of Poland, Przemysl II about 1295 AD.

[icedgold10]

WOW!!!!!  I think you have got it!   http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:POL_Przemys%C5%82_II_ca._1350_COA.svg  Excellent work!

[Mat]

Hi, my guess is that it is emperor Heinrich VI, look here: http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Kaiser_Friedrich_II._Der_Wegbereiter_der_Renaissance/I._Der_staufische_Reichsgedanke . Seems that someone was inspired by the famous Manesse codex. The "Reichsapfel", the globe with the cross on it, was also a symbol of power of the Holy Roman Emperors...
Mat

[icedgold10]

Mat , that is identical to the pictorial on my fabric.  Do you know if these were used as decorations or on robes traditionally?  I haven't got a grip on the age of the fabric.  If you smell it close up it has a bit of a mineral type smell.  Not really sure how to describe it.  I'm thinking you hit the nail on the head though.  Thank you.

[Mat]

I understand your pictorial as a kind of "copy" of the depiction in the Codex Manesse. The codex itself (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Manesse) was not known to a broader public before C20, I think, and so it is unlikely that your fabric is older than that. I do not think it was used on a robe, but rather that it is some kind of souvenir, maybe from Heidelberg, where the codex is kept in the library.
Mat

[icedgold10]

C20  = 20th century?

[Mat]

Yes, that is what I tried to say! 

[KC]

Unlike the other pictures....yours has him holding an orb.  Is it the Imperial Orb of the Roman Empire?

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[sugarcube5419]

Mat

what is your IQ?   

unbelievable.

[Mat]

Hi sugarcube5419, I do not think my IQ is so special (and I never dared to check it) , I just remember things I have seen once quite well, and it happend that I have a book with all the miniature paintings of the Codex Manesse!  Mat