EditorialRecto: Samson, having defeated the Philistines, drinks water from the jawbone of an ass, preliminary design for 'Spiritus Fortitudines' (The Spirit of Strength), plate 4 in 'The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit' print series. Verso: obscured inscription,...
EditorialUrn of earthenware of greyish color. The edge is provided with depressed dimples. In this urn there were burnt bones of an adult human being and in between it was to recognize the right upper jawbone of a child. Many glueing and cracking, some addition...
EditorialSkeleton and jawbone of the Anoplotherium commune, extinct ungulate from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of N...
EditorialSkeleton and jawbone of the Anoplotherium commune, extinct ungulate from the late Eocene to the early Oligocene. Engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (Dictionary of N...
EditorialSpeculum Humanae Salvationis, Flemish,15th. MS 139. fol.18 verso: Christ topples the soldiers who came to arrest him; Samson kills the Philistines with the jawbone of an ass.