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HOSPITALLERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. Woodcut broadside in favour of one of the German establishments, sold to Whitsuntide pilgrims, accompanied by a Whitsun hymn of two rhymed couplets, [ca.1510-1520].
Print 145 x 111mm, sheet 195 x 138mm, printed on laid paper with contemporary colouring in red, green and yellow. The woodcut shows within a columned portal the Holy Dove surrounded by an aureole, suspended above a large papal tiara with crossed keys, surmounting a black banner with the Order's arms, the Cross of Lorraine, flanking the tiara the half figures of a king and the German Emperor, below them the figures of a Pope (perhaps Innocent III who confirmed the Order in 1198) and an abbot (probably the head of the establishment), below them two groups of men and children each adoring a Child in a cradle. Underneath the print in a semi-gothic type the verse "Nun biten mir den heilligen geist umb den rechten glauben aller meist das er unß wel behieten vor unsserm ende wan mir Heim varen uß dissem ellenden kirieleyson". (Tear in sheet almost invisibly repaired.)
An apparently unrecorded German popular woodcut, of which a large number of copies must have been printed. The Whitsun hymn is by Bertholdus von Regensburg (ca.1210-1272). Cf. Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen II p.31 for Hospitaliter Orden vom Heiligen Geist.
Print 145 x 111mm, sheet 195 x 138mm, printed on laid paper with contemporary colouring in red, green and yellow. The woodcut shows within a columned portal the Holy Dove surrounded by an aureole, suspended above a large papal tiara with crossed keys, surmounting a black banner with the Order's arms, the Cross of Lorraine, flanking the tiara the half figures of a king and the German Emperor, below them the figures of a Pope (perhaps Innocent III who confirmed the Order in 1198) and an abbot (probably the head of the establishment), below them two groups of men and children each adoring a Child in a cradle. Underneath the print in a semi-gothic type the verse "Nun biten mir den heilligen geist umb den rechten glauben aller meist das er unß wel behieten vor unsserm ende wan mir Heim varen uß dissem ellenden kirieleyson". (Tear in sheet almost invisibly repaired.)
An apparently unrecorded German popular woodcut, of which a large number of copies must have been printed. The Whitsun hymn is by Bertholdus von Regensburg (ca.1210-1272). Cf. Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen II p.31 for Hospitaliter Orden vom Heiligen Geist.