Saint Jerome in his study
Maker
(artist)
1532-1603
(printmaker)
1539-1618
(publisher)
born 1509 or 1517, died 1591 (Life dates)
1532-1603
(printmaker)
1539-1618
(publisher)
born 1509 or 1517, died 1591 (Life dates)
Title
Saint Jerome in his study
Dimensions
Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 21.6 cm
Width: 21.6 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.2525
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
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: centre right, within image: “semper in / sourat auribs / meis tu: ba vo / cuis morta: / ce ad iu : / dicium , / [indecipherable] ergo nouis: / fina tua. //”; right, within image: “COGITUR MORI. //”; lower centre, within image: “Marti. de vos inuen. Anto. Wierix sculpsit Gerard. de Iode excud. //”; lower margin: “HIERONYMVS celebrimus : magnus ille Ro. Ecclesiae Doctor, Presby: non perituru: is cum venisset Romam, in Cardi. conseratus est. Prost au: / ter progatus ex ciuitate Stridone, quae postea a Gottis deuastata Dalma: tem haec, in Syriae deserto decreuit agere penitentiam, reytq, annos post / trina sanctitateq, facile primus: colebat Bethleem regionis palestinae ci : contra incredulorum virus insitum fere libros: tales vr is sinceritate / uitatem, ille quam docendo ecclesia prosuerit paucis scriptu non est fa: cadant. Multa quidem de viro dicenda sunt, sed non facile ponenda, proper / cile. Nam vitam eius sanctissima omnib. puto esse mora nomeq sparty breuitatem. Vixit circa an Dai 376. //”.
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