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Saint Ambrose in his study

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)
1539-1618

(publisher)
born 1509 or 1517, died 1591 (Life dates)

Title

Saint Ambrose in his study

Dimensions

Height: 24.4 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2524

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords
















beehive

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: centre left, within image: “Adueniat / ex Sijon et / le qui liberat / et auerter [indecipherable] / pietares [indecipherable]/ Iacob //”; centre, within image: “Petite et da Vobis. Omnius / bitus vobis qui petit, ac: / inuenientis querit, inue / pulsate et riit, et pulsa: / aperietur ti aperiet. //”; lower centre left, within image: “Hec uit. / scripta sui / ve creda. / tis quia / Iesus Chri / sti. est ille //”; lower, within image: “Mart. de Vos inuen. Anton. Wierx Sculp. Gerard. de Iode excud. //”; lower margin: “AMBROSIVS natione Romanus: Mediolanen. Episcopus, probo generosoq. Semi: fdidelium sectato insignis: diuinisq. in rebus acutus ingenio[colon] vt nedum vi: / ne octus. vir et ingenio et doctrina Hieronimo facile fecudus. Ad iura ille uente se: verum mortuo, multos regionibus Christum etiam scriptis declara: / post Auxency obitum vocatus, in indicem: pauloq. post in Episcopu apud Mediolane rit. Hic adhuc cum cumis incubaret, apum examen eius faciem occultare/ ses electus sacratusq. nonum. Gratiano cafari literis librisq. editis, cum ille de visum est: significationi: vr ex ore eius melleum vere documentum fluctufide satissecibet: circ umiacentibus ingenuiter veram fide comunicauit. Erat eni aret. vixit circa annum Dui 380. //”.

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