print;
book-illustration;
alphabet
- Museum number
- 1895,1031.888
- Description
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St John's vision of the seven candlesticks (Revelation I: 12-18): the risen Christ with sword in his mouth pointing downwards, and the saint lying face down, surrounded by candlesticks with burning candles; initial letter 'ѡ' on verso with image of Christ's lamb; illustration cut from New Testament in cyrillic (Urach/ Bad Urach, 1563).
Woodcut and letterpress
- Production date
- 1563
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 132 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Professor Ralph Cleminson (email March 2021): 'This is in fact f. 174 of the second volume of the New Testament published by Primož Trubar and his associates at Urach in 1563.
For the whole thing, see http://idb.ub.uni-tuebingen.de/opendigi/GaXXVIII2_qt-2#p=413
There are two copies of the complete book in Britain, at the BL (C.51.e.8) and in the Bible Society's collection at Cambridge UL (252.1 B 3).
For a description of the edition, see pp. 77-81 of F. Bučar, F. Fančev, "Bibliografija hrvatske protestantske književnosti za reformacije", Starine 39 (1938), 49-128, also accessible online at https://dizbi.hazu.hr/a/?pr=iiif.v.a&id=177186&tify={%22pages%22:[81],%22view%22:%22thumbnails%22}
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,1031.888