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Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus

About This Item

Title

Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus

Subject

Plague
Saints
Religion and Medicine
Sebastian, Saint
Rochus, Saint, approximately 1350-approximately 1380
Incunabula
Book Illustrations

Description

Woodcut printed by Johann Grüninger, artist unknown.
Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus (Roch), saints of the plague.--Cf. Schramm
On the left, Saint Sebastian stands tied to a tree as an archer shoots him with arrows. On the right, Saint Rochus kneels and tends a plague victim(?)
Title supplied by cataloger.

Source

Drawing heavily on Heinrich Steinhowel’s 1473 treatise on the plague, Brunschwig’s Pestbuch describes the origin of the plague, its communication, symptoms, prophylaxis and treatment. A surgeon, Brunschwig had witnessed the plague of 1473. Many of the 23 woodcut illustrations are only loosely related to the text, consist of composites, and reappear throughout the text and in other works printed by Gruninger.

Publisher

Digitized by the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Date

1500

Contributor

Grüninger, Johann, -1532?

Language

ger

Type

StillImage

Identifier

ZDd_15_1500.5r

Temporal Coverage

History, Medieval

Original Format

1 print : woodcut

Physical Dimensions

9x14 cm

Citation

“Saint Sebastian and Saint Rochus,” The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Digital Library, accessed October 11, 2024, https://cppdigitallibrary.org/items/show/235.