Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . nd explain the varioussubjects with which the work is covered in relief. The foursupporting figures, which are nearly nude, are intended to beemblematic of the four rivers of Paradise, which are shown tobe flowing out from the jars they hold inverted. On thelowest band of the bowl and directly above their heads runthese four inscriptions :— ^ TEMPERIEM GEON TERRE DESIGNAT ; EST VELOX TIGRIS QVO FORTIS SIGNIFICATVR.^ FRVGIFER EVFRATES EST IVSTICIA QVE NOTATVS^ OS MVTANS PRISON EST PRVDENTI SIMIL
Dinanderie; a history and description of mediæval art work in copper, brass and bronze . nd explain the varioussubjects with which the work is covered in relief. The foursupporting figures, which are nearly nude, are intended to beemblematic of the four rivers of Paradise, which are shown tobe flowing out from the jars they hold inverted. On thelowest band of the bowl and directly above their heads runthese four inscriptions :— ^ TEMPERIEM GEON TERRE DESIGNAT ; EST VELOX TIGRIS QVO FORTIS SIGNIFICATVR.^ FRVGIFER EVFRATES EST IVSTICIA QVE NOTATVS^ OS MVTANS PRISON EST PRVDENTI SIMILATVS Round the upper band of the bowl run these four legends :— ^ QVATVOR IRRORANT PARADISI FLVMINA MVNDVM. ?P VIRTVTES QVE RIGANT TOTIDEM COR CRIMINE MVNDVM. 4< ORA PROPHETARVM QVE VATICINATA FVERVNT. ?J< HEC RATA SCRIPTORES EWANGELII CECINERVNT ^ and round the lowest Iim of the cover :— ^ MVNDAT VT IMMVNDA SACRI BAPTISMATIS VNDA SIC IVSTEFVSVS SANGVIS LAVACHRI TENET VSVS — POST LAVATATTRACTA LACRIMIS CONFESSIO FACTA—CRIMINE FEDATISLAVACHRVM FIT OPVS PIETATIS ^. Plate XXXRFOXT, HILDESMEIM FONTS 169 On the bowl immediately above the supporting figuresare small circles with busts representing the four virtues, theirnames being engraved round the circles, starting with Prudenceover Phison, Temperance over Geon, Courage over Tigris andJustice over Euphrates. Again over these roundels are similarmedallions containing busts of the Prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah,Daniel and Ezechiel—Isaiah being over Phison and Prudence,and the others in the same order. These medallions aresupported on small columns, and from the medallions springbands arranged in the form of trefoil arches, making four largepanels round the sides of the bowl, each containing a subjectin high relief. These are :— (i) Between Phison and Geon : the seated figure of theBlessed Virgin, crowned and holding the Infant, and on herright hand stands a figure in a mitre and holding a crosier,supposed to represen
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