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Ten Scenes from the Old Testament

Maker

(artist)
1532-1603

(printmaker)
1560-1618

(publisher)
1537-1612

Title

Dimensions

Height: 21.4 cm
Width: 24.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2536

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: upper margin: “DECALOGVS CVM ACERBISSIMIS PRAEVARICATORVM POENIS. //”; within central image, on the tablets of Moses: “Exld. 20. / Locutusque est Domi= / nus cunctos fermones hos: / EGO SVM DOMINVS / DEVS TVVS &c. NON / HABEBIS DEOS ALIE / NOS CORAM ME. Non / facies tibi sculptile, neque om : nem similitbudinem quae est in / caelo desuper, et que in terra / deorsum, nec eorum quae sunt / in aquis sub terra. Non ado / rabis ea neque coles. / Non ASSVMES NO / MEN DOMINI DEI /TVI IN VANVM. Nec ... //”; second level margin, either side of the figure of Moses: “FLAGRANTIS IN DEVM DILECTI= / ONIS PARADIGMATA. / SINCERI ERGA PROXIMVM AMO= / RIS EXEMPLA. //”; lower margin, below each of four subsidiary scenes, two on each side of Moses: “Ait Dominus ad David patrem meum, Quod cogitas: ... //”; lower margin: “Ait illi Iesus, ... ILLVSTRI ET REVERENDISSIMO DOMINO LAEVINO TORRENTIO, / EPISCOPO ANTVERPIENSI MERITISSIMO OBSEQVII ERGO / PHILIPPVS GALLAEVS L.M.D.D. //”.

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