- Creator:
- Spooner, Charles, 1720-1767, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1775]
- Call Number:
- 775.00.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A white-bearded and tonsured cleric in a monastic habit gazes at a young woman wearing a long mantilla and a dress with a revealing decolletage
- Description:
- Title etching below image., Publication date conjectured from that of the print of which this one is a reduced copy., Reduced copy, with different plate number and without imprint. Cf No. 3775 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4., Four lines of verse in 2 columns below title: "Here the fair humble penitent behold, to the good father all her sins unfold. He hears, absolves. But mark his leering eyes, and judge by them where his devotion lies.", and Numbered in plate: 130.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Clergy, Confession, and Monasticism and religious orders
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Confession [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- [between 1300 and 1400, 1000 and 1100]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 578
- Image Count:
- 386
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on parchment of a Psalter-Hymnal, written for a Benedictine monastery. On the rear flyleaf, a fragment of the Gospel of Mark, 1:24-31 and 36-42, in West-Saxon translation
- Description:
- In Latin and Anglo-Saxon., Script: Copied by three scribes, all writing Northern Gothica Textualis Formata. The fragment is copied in careful Anglo-Saxon Minuscule., The decoration consists of 1-line plain initials alternately in red and blue in the text; 2-line flourished initials in blue with red penwork with marginal extensions; 3- and 5-line litterae duplices with partial or full penwork borders (J-motifs) as indicated in art. 2. Litterae duplices also on ff. 116r, 133v, 143v (artt. 3, 6 and 7)., and Binding: Original undecorated leather over oak boards (?). Spine with three raised bands. Traces (?) of one clasp.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Benedictines. and Catholic Church
- Subject (Topic):
- Liturgy, Hymns, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Monasticism and religious orders, and Psalters
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Psalter-hymnal