Examples of Obedience
Maker
(artist)
1553-1619
(engraver)
1553-1619
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
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
phial
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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