Plate 45
"They explicate the most hidden mysteries according to their own fancy"
Moriae Encomium
Illustrated by Hans Holbein the Younger
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Single Greeting Card (with matching Envelope)
Code: H ME45 SGC |
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Reproduction on 8x12" sheet
Code: H ME45 8x12 |
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Reproduction on 12x18" sheet
Code: H ME45 12x18 |
Holbein's illustration shown in Plate 45 from Moriae Encomium is associated with the following text drawn from
John Wilson's 1668 translation:
Besides, while they explicate the most hidden mysteries according to their own fancy--as how
the world was first made; how original sin is derived to posterity; in what manner, how much
room, and how long time Christ lay in the Virgin's womb; how accidents subsist in the Eucharist
without their subject.
The associated French text from L'Eloge de la Folie (1728) follows:
Voyons nos Oracles, dans leur plus sublime fontion; voyons les interpreter les mysteres cachez
de la Doctrine de salut. S'agit-il de la Création, du Péché originel, de l'Incarnation, de
l'Eucharistie?
