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Title page of Oraculum Anachoreticum, Christ as the Good Shephard

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1532-1603

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Title

Title page of Oraculum Anachoreticum, Christ as the Good Shephard

Date of Production

1595 - 1600

Dimensions

Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2614

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

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Literature

Dibujos Espanoles, Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Oviedo, 2012
p. 68
fig. 4 on p. 69
PDF attached; erroneously as by Raphael Sadeler I

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper margin: “Templa vetusta uides! sunt hic Patrum, Hic tibi Pax, linguaeq tenens moderamina virtus, / Quos bonus huc egit Pastor, et alma quies. Quaeq libens paret, subesse facit. //”; upper centre, within image: “ORACVLVM / ANACHORETICVM //”; centre, within image: “OBEDIENTIA HVMILITAS. / REQVIES ANIMAE. //”; lower left, within image: “Cum priud / sumi pont et (indecipherable) mates //”; lower right, within image: “Marti de Vos figur / Ioa Sadeler sculpsit Venetijs. //”; lower margin: “SANCTISSIO PATRI NOSTRO, / D. CLEMENTI VIII POTI. OPT. MAX. / AN. D MDC”.

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