Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The stamp of the Monastery of Saint Catherine.
Call Number
D West 43/GC096/Box 02/Normal/Saint Catherine Monastery GA 2014.00022
Identifier
ark:/88435/3x816x12c
Publisher
Lwow, Poland : [s.n.], 1696.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1696
Extent
1 item ; print 6.8 x 6.8 cm. sheet 10.3 x 10.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Acquired with matching funds provided by the Program in Hellenic Studies with the support of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund.
References
Not in Papastratou.
Deluga, Waldemar and Zych, Iwona. Greek Church Prints, Print Quarterly 19, no. 2 (June 2002): pp. 123-135.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Woodcuts, Hand-coloring
Depiction: Icon representing Saint Catherine and the Saint Catherine Monastery, Mount Sinai.
Item description: Among the earliest known religious prints produced for circulation in the Orthodox East.
Inscribed in plate: Within mandorla, "To hagion monastirion apo ton Megan Ioustinianon en eti Christou 529. Es to hagion kai theovadiston oros tou Sina 1696".

Discovery Information

Subject
Art, Byzantine
Religious art
Christian art and symbolism—17th century
Christianity and art—Orthodox Eastern Church—In art
Icons, Byzantine
Sinai, Mount (Egypt)—In art
Saint Catherine (Monastery : Mount Sinai).
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint—Art
Saints in art
Chatzekyriakes
Martyrs in art
Art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/db5340dc-085c-46a2-a2d5-ae6280903e38/manifest