Arbor Vita Christi [print].

Accession number: 
PML 145850.64
Published: 
[place not identified] : [publisher not identified], [16--?]
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; image: 199 x 139 mm; plate mark: 200 x 140 mm; trimmed leaf: 255 x 169 mm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

Title from item.
Engraved book illustration, with text printed on verso.
Letterpress caption text continues: à S. Bonaventura devote excogitata, & triplici ramorum serie disposita. Prima Salvatoris origo : media passio : suprema glorificarlo describitur ...[etc.].
Mounted as item 64 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).

Variant Title: 

Arbor Vitae Christi

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary: 

Engraved diagram representing the life of Christ in the form of a tree and evidently based on the thirteenth-century Lignum vitae of St. Bonaventure; with the crucified Christ shown on the central trunk of a tree made up of branches carrying circular "leaves" with Latin inscriptions relating to Christ's life, Passion, and Resurrection. The base of the tree is flanked by the figures of St. Bonaventura at left and St. Francis at right.

Classification: 
Print
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Department: 
Printed Books