Zacharias writes the name of his son John on a tablet
Description:
Title from item., Alternate title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication based on printmaker's place of residence., From: The Life of John the Baptist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint., Zacharias (Father of John the Baptist)., and Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Medicine in the Bible, Postnatal care, Mothers, Saints, Infants, Midwifes, Bathing, Writing, and Cooking
Manuscript on paper of the Life of Saint John the Baptist. Manuscript also contains a formulary for addressing Latin letters to ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, as well as a sermon and vision about Saint John the Baptist
Description:
In Italian., Script: the formulary is copied in Gothica Semitextualis Libraria (Mercantesca); the other articles are in Gothica Semitextualis Currens (Mercantesca), sometimes of difficult legibility. There is no decoration., Manuscript on paper containing: 1) Formulary for addressing Latin letters to pope Calixtus III (1455-1458) and various other Italian ecclesiastical authorities and dignitaries, ending with emperor Frederick III (1452-1493) and Charles VII, King of France (1422-1461). 2) Life of St. John the Baptist in Italian. 3) Sermon on St. John the Baptist, attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. 4) Vision about St. John the Baptist, incomplete and of difficult legibility., and Binding: 20th century marbled brown paper binding.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint.
Subject (Topic):
Christian hagiography, Devotional literature, Italian, and Manuscripts, Medieval
Horthemels, Fré́déric, approximately 1688-1738, printmaker
Published / Created:
[ca. 1729-1738]
Call Number:
Print00882
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Birth of St. John the Baptist
Description:
Title from item., Copy is trimmed with loss of imprint. Information supplied from British Museum copy., Text from untrimmed copy: Naissance de St. Jean. / D'Après le Tableau de Jacques Tintoret, qui est dans le Cabinet de Mr. Crozat / peint sur toile, haut de 5. pieds 1. pouce, large de 8. pieds 2. pouces., From the Recueil Crozat., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Breastfeeding.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint., Elizabeth (Mother of John the Baptist), Saint., and Zacharias (Father of John the Baptist).
Subject (Topic):
Childbirth, Medicine in the Bible, Postnatal care, Wet nurses, Servants, Infants, Breast feeding, Saints, Basins, Cats, and Chickens
Manuscript on paper (thick) of 1) Five lines of verse on the proper formulaic conclusion to prayers addressed to members of the Trinity. 2) Nicolaus de Dinkelsbuehl, De septem peccatis capitalibus (Confessionale). 3) Latin and German names of the books of the Bible; Latin and German names of Aristotle's principal works; Latin names of the Minor Prophets; etc. 4) Johannes Herolt ("Discipulus"), Sermones dominicales. 5) Johannes Herolt, Sermo in festo Iohannis Baptiste
Description:
In German and Latin., Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Monts 11786 and unidentified bull's head., Script: Written by multiple scribes in varying styles of gothic hybrida and bookhand scripts., Crude red initials, 3- to 2-line, throughout; ff. 33v-38r, 113v-114v and 166r-203r rubricated., and Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. The backs of the quires are cut in. Original sewing on three double supports is laced into almost flush wooden boards, and the tawed skin cores of braided endbands, sewn through the cover, are also laced. The spine is back cornered with lining extending between supports on the outside of the boards. Large vermilion and sepia roses are painted on each edge. Back pastedown (and perhaps the inner front pastedown, covered by paper) consists of a parchment bifolium (Germany, 1200-1250) containing the Sermones de tempore of Johannes Halgrinus de Abbatisvilla. Written in small neat early gothic bookhand, above top line. Binding stays from this and other parchment manuscripts, 13th-14th centuries. Covered in kermes pink skin blind-tooled with an X in a frame on the front board, tying-up marks on the spine, and a frame on the lower one. Five round, brass bosses on each board and one fastening, the catch inset on the upper board, the lower one cut in for the strap.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
John, the Baptist, Saint. and Dinkelsbuehl, Nicolaus de.
Subject (Topic):
Church year sermons, Confession, Catholic Church, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Sermons
