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Of the remaining ten, there is a Spear, a Hammer, a Crown of Thorns
> hung on a Cross, a three-part Flail, a Pillar with Rope and something which
> looks like a capital A with a line over the top (or a trestle table).
I have seen the nails arranged in such a fashion, I believe (on the
frontispiece
of an early printed book). Is there a chance the A with a line on the top is
the nails, and the others are actual letters?
On a really far stretch, Francisco de Osuna has an elaborate metaphor
in a book
from the 1520s in which Christ is a merchant who spill the money of his blood
out of his moneybag of a body onto the trestle table of the cross. But
that is
probably far too allegorical for your literalizing screen.
Jessica A. Boon
jboon at duke dot edu
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