Items matching religion

Hour Glass

“Of the few remaining specimens of the hour-glass, a fine one is preserved in the church of St. Alban’s, Wood Street, London. It is mounted on a spiral column near the pulpit, and the minister can co [...]

Keywords: hour glasses, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-09-21

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Specimen of the Würzburg Missal. Written about 1470 or 1480.

This full-page plate occurs next to the discussion on the invention of printing, and the dramatic effect it to reduce the power of the Church. The plate does not appear to be mentioned in the text. T [...]

Keywords: calligraphy, colour, christmas, easter, gothic letters, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-03-07

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A Blasphemer turned into a black dog

The caption in the woodcut mentions page 4, and there is indeed an account there of someone being turned into a black dog.

Keywords: religion, animals, dogs, death, spooky

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-04-27

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King Henry II whipped by the Pope’s Order

The text reads “K. Hen. 2. whipt by the Popes Order pa. 88” “henry the Second our King, was much vexed by this Pope [Alexander III] for the death of Thomas Becket, whom the Pope made St. Thomas for op [...]

Keywords: bare feet, punishments, religion, people, royalty

Places shown: Canterbury; Kent; England

Added: 2005-02-27

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A Woman torn in peices by the Devil. pa. 14.

The “pa. 14.” refers to page 14, which has the following text: “XVII. At Oster, a Village in Germany, there happened a most strange and fearful judgement upon a Woman who gave her self to the Devil, b [...]

Keywords: religion, people, spooky

Places shown: Oster; Mosel; Germany

Added: 2006-07-28

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Queen Bohemia swallowed up alive

The chapter heading is Chap IV. The Wicked Lives, and Woful Deaths of several Popes, and likewise of Apostates, and Desperate Persecutors, but the running heads on each page say The woful Deaths of Wi [...]

Keywords: punishments, religion, people, royalty, death

Places shown: Prague

Added: 2006-03-17

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62h.—Initial capital letter “H” from Dance of Death Alphabet.

This decorative initial letter “H”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It depicts a skeleton, representing Death, dragging off a bishop.

Keywords: letterh, initials, death, skeletons, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-04-01

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62b.—Initial capital letter “B” from Dance of Death Alphabet

This decorative initial letter “B”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features two skeletons, or death-figures, a dog and a pope. Some commentators say [...]

Keywords: letterb, initials, death, skeletons, religion, spirit

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-03-07

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62i.—Initial capital letter “I” from Dance of Death Alphabet.

This decorative initial letter “I”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It is also used for “J.” It features a skeleton (Death) in the guise of an old woman [...]

Keywords: letteri, letterj, initials, death, skeletons, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-04-18

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62l.—Initial capital letter “L” from Dance of Death Alphabet.

This decorative initial letter “K”, or drop cap, is from an alphabet designed by Hans Holbein and dating from 1523. It features a skeleton, representing Death, standing on the left, carrying holy wate [...]

Keywords: letterl, initials, death, skeletons, religion, people

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-09-03

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Bust of William of Wykeham. 1394.

On a corbel in Muniment Room, Winchester College. The photograph shows a stone bust of William of Wykeham, wearing a bishop’s mitre and carrying a bishop’s crook. “Although William of Wykeham can in a [...]

Keywords: portraits, carving, statuary, people, religion, interiors

Places shown: Winchester; Hampshire; England

Added: 2007-05-28

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The Song of Bethlehem

“On wheels of light, on wings of flame, The glorious hosts of Zion came.” “The Song of Bethlehem.” – Campbell. From “Lays of the Holy Land.” By J. R. Clayton. By permission of Messrs. James Nisbet & C [...]

Keywords: christmas, angels, bare feet, wings, religion

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-11-09

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