Image: Saint Christopher 001

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Description: Woodcut print with hand-colouring of St Christopher from Buxheim on the Upper Rhine dated 1423. The print is held in the John Rylands Library in Manchester : it is preserved as an endpaper in a manuscript dated 1417 from Bohemia, the Laus Virginis. This is generally regarded as the earliest datable woodcut in Europe, although the date on the print could simply commemorate a particular event in that year. The inscription in latin can be translated "In whatsoever day thou seest the likeness of St Christopher, In that same day thou wilt from death no evil blow incur". First owner : Carl Heinrich von Heinecken (1706-1791).
Title: Saint Christopher 001
Credit: John Rylands Library, autority description.
Author: Unknown
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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