Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . M SEDERIT FILIVS HOMINIS IN SEDE MAIESTATIS SVE. On thetop of the roof are the words addressed by Christ to the blessed,VENITE BENEDICTI PATRIS MEI PERCIPITE PARATVM VOBIS REGNVMA CONSTITVTIONE MVNDI ESVRIVI ET DEDISTIS MICHI MANDVCARE,&c. ; in six medallions are represented three groups of the just,and three of the damned, holding scrolls with answers to ourLord, DOMINE QVANDO TE VIDIMVS ESVRIENTEM ET PAVIMVS TE,&c. ; beneath is the reply, AMEN DICO VOBIS QVANDIV FECISTISVNI DE HIS FRATRIBVS MEIS MINIMIS
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . M SEDERIT FILIVS HOMINIS IN SEDE MAIESTATIS SVE. On thetop of the roof are the words addressed by Christ to the blessed,VENITE BENEDICTI PATRIS MEI PERCIPITE PARATVM VOBIS REGNVMA CONSTITVTIONE MVNDI ESVRIVI ET DEDISTIS MICHI MANDVCARE,&c. ; in six medallions are represented three groups of the just,and three of the damned, holding scrolls with answers to ourLord, DOMINE QVANDO TE VIDIMVS ESVRIENTEM ET PAVIMVS TE,&c. ; beneath is the reply, AMEN DICO VOBIS QVANDIV FECISTISVNI DE HIS FRATRIBVS MEIS MINIMIS ME FECISTIS; between themedallions are the just rising and receiving garments from twoangels and crowns from a winged figure of Mercy, a figure ofJustice with a balance, and two angels driving away the damned ;and at the extremities are four angels blowing trumpets. Thewhole of the shrine is gilt and adorned with filigree work,enamels and precious stones, and the top of the roof has afoliated cresting of metal with large crystals, and is terminatedat each end by a Plate XIII J IGLRK ijl- TlIAIiDiaS, FI;)_M TlIK SIIiaXK 01- S. ski; SHRINES 115 The great shrine of S. Sebald in the Sebaldskirche atNuremberg is different to all those already described, as itembraces in itself not only the coffer which contains theremains of the saint, but the substructure and canopy, as atCanterbury, all in metal (Plates XII. and XIII.). It was entirelythe work of Peter Vischer and his five sons, and seems to agreat extent to have been carried out without fee or reward. Arobbery from the church in 1500 of some other valuable relicsmade the people alarmed for the safety of those of their patronsaint, and what we should call a committee of gentlemen,which included the to this day well-known names of AntonTucher, Peter Imhof and Lazarus Holzschuher, guaranteed asufHcient sum of money to pay for the materials required.^Vith this promise Vischer commenced his work in 1507 ; andthough
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