Dear Bill East,
I am, like everyone else on this list, enjoying your
Brief History (and Bob's knit picquing).
You just mentioned the Peshitta, which jogged my mind
for a question that's been lurking there for a couple of
decades (gosh those hurt!).
Hope it is not too much of a distraction from the flow of your
work, but I thought maybe you or someone else on the list might
be able to help ease the pain, the mental equivalant of a stone
in one's shoe.
The first printed ed. of the P. was, I believe, that published
under the patronage of the Emperor in Vienna in 1555(?). I have
no interest in the text (can you *believe* it?), but I have seen--
in one very unlikely source only--one of the (several) wood
cuts which illustrate the thing.
The only one I've seen struck me (an art historian) as most
remarkable (unique?) in its iconography: a crucifixion with an
accompanying "tree of life", with lines connecting the stigmata
to points on the "tree". I've never seen anything like it.
Do you know anything about these illustrations?
Or where I might come up with repros of the whole set?
I did a bit of hunting 20 years or so ago, with nil results.
There's a copy of the thing in the Newberry Library in
Chicago, which is just close enough and far enough away
at the same time for me to never have made the pilgrimage.
No need to reply if you draw a blank on this one.
Thanks for the Lesson.
Best from here,
Christopher
Christopher Crockett
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