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Examples of Obedience

Maker

(artist)
1553-1619

(engraver)
1553-1619

Title

Examples of Obedience

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 11.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.2847

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






















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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the image, in the central quadrant, black ink: “Obedientia // perseveranter // fortiter // velociter // simpliciter// humiliter // hilariter // libenter”; in the frame around the central quadrant, black ink: “Christus factus est pro nobis obediens usque ad mortem. Ecce peccatores intenderunt arcum: parauerunt sagittas suas in pharetro, ut sagittent in obscuro rectos corde. Psal. 10.”; below the left lateral quadrants, black ink: “Inobedientia // Inconstantia // Tristitia // Propria voluntas”; below the right lateral quadrants, black ink: “Pusillanimitas // Pigritia // Vana gloria // Curiositas”; upper left edge, black ink: “Benedicentur in semini tuo omnes gentes, // quia obedisti voci meae. Gen. 22.”; upper right edge, black ink: “Vade et vide si cuncta prospera sint erga // fratres tuos. R. Presto sum. Gen. 37.”; lower left edge, black ink: “Melior est obedientia quam // victimae, et auscultare ma- // gis quam offerre adipem // arietum, qm quasi peccatum // ariolandi est repugnare.”; lower centre edge, black ink: “Quia audisti vocem uxoris tuae, et comedisti de ligno ex quo praeceperam // tibi ne comederes, maledicta terra in opere tuo: in laboribus comedes ex // ea cunctis diebus vitae tuae; et emisit eum Dominus Deus de paradiso. Gen. 3.”; lower right edge, black ink: “Quia inobediens fuit // ori Domini, tradidit // eum Dominus leoni, et confregit eum et oc- //cidit. III Reg. 13.”; below the central quadrant, black ink: “Hieronymus Wierx fecit et execudit”.

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