Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Saturn / Single figure / As a cripple, with crutches or a staff

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Capricornus / With planets / Saturn (domicile)
Astronomy and astrology / Constellations / Zodiac / Aquarius / With planets / Saturn (domicile)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Individual / Saturn / Standing / Not eating children, holding a sickle or a scythe, on crutches
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Dignities and debilities / Cycles / Woodcuts, German, 15th century (Schreiber 1917o)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / Dignities and debilities / Saturn / Domicile (Capricorn and Aquarius)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Cycles / Prints / German, 15th century (bound into Zürich, Zentralbibliothek, MS C 101)
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Ploughing
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Feeding, keeping or slaughtering pigs
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Cutting trees or chopping wood
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Prison and stocks
Astronomy and astrology / Planets / Represented as planetary deities / With planet children / Saturn / Gallows, execution and suicide

SOCIAL LIFE

Justice and punishment / Execution / Breaking on the wheel
Justice and punishment / Execution / Hanging / Gallows with one or more hanged persons
Justice and punishment / Punishment (non-capital) / Stock
Professions and trades / Agricultural / Ploughing
Professions and trades / Agricultural / Swineherd
Professions and trades / Woodworkers / Cutting trees

Further details

Artist or creator

German

Date

15th century (second half)

Location

Zürich, Zentralbibliothek (long-term loan of St. Gallen Stiftsbibliothek), C 101

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Folio: 8v.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Max Lehrs, Über einige Holzschnitte des fünfzehnten Jahrhunderts in der Stadtbibliothek zu Zürich, Straßburg 1906, no. 5; Wilhelm Ludwig Schreiber, Handbuch der Holz- und Metallschnitte des XV. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4, Leipzig 1927, no. 1917o

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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