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  • Innocence attacked from four corners by "Iudex", "Persequutiō", "Avaritia" and "Invidia"; Justice looks down from above. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A clergyman in a coffin holding a crozier is surrounded by a group of mourners. Line block.
  • Men worship an ass bearing a religious image; alluding to both Aesop's fable of the ass and idol worship in Arianism and contemporary Catholicism. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A bear overturns a barrel and is stung by bees; representing Aesop's fable. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
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    The Roman emperor Valens pours money into a coffer; an officer is arrested and led to prison. Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.

    Murer, Christoph, 1558-1614. | Date: 1622 | Reference: 26679i
    Part of: XL Emblemata miscella nova
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    Saints and animals in the Middle Ages / Dominic Alexander.

    Alexander, Dominic. | Date: 2008
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    The church history of Brittany from the beginning of Christianity to the Norman conquest. Under Roman governours, Brittish kings, the English-Saxon heptarchy, the English-Saxon (and Danish) monarchy, containing I. The lives of all our saints ... II. The erections of episcopall see's, and succession of bishops. III. The celebration of synods ... IV. The foundations of monasteries, nunneries and churches. V. And a sufficient account of the successions of our kings, and of the civill affaires of this kingdom. From all which is evidently demonstrated: that the present Roman-Catholic religion hath from the beginning, without interruption or change been professed in this island, &c / [Serenus Cressy].

    Cressy, Serenus, 1605-1674. | Date: [1668]
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    The Christian Orient.

    British Library. | Date: [1978], ©1978
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    A catalogue of Bibles, liturgies, church history, and theology.

    Bernard Quaritch (Firm) | Date: 1891
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