Burseryd / Burserud
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Results: 56 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other - fighting - detail
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B01: animal - mammal - lion - 2 - facing each other - fighting
Scene Description: their tails resemble acanthus leaves; the lion on the left has its tail inside a ring; there are two rosettes in this scene: one with five petals, the other with eight
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B02: inscription - Runic characters
![one English version: "Arinbjörn made me. Vidkunn the priest wrote me. And here I shall stand for a while" [cf. Inscription notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120914099_compressed.png)
Scene Description: one English version: "Arinbjörn made me. Vidkunn the priest wrote me. And here I shall stand for a while" [cf. Inscription notes]
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B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - griffin - fighting - detail
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B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - griffin - fighting - detail
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B03: animal - fabulous animal or monster - manticore - griffin - fighting
Scene Description: griffin-like creature on the left, hooded manticore on the right
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B04: animal - mammal - horse - 2 - facing each other - acanthus plant or Tree of Life - detail
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B04: animal - mammal - horse - 2 - facing each other - acanthus plant or Tree of Life
Scene Description: three plants, one between the horses
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LBH01: human figure - head
![rounded face; no hair or head-cover; one eye damaged [or intended that way?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120914090_compressed.png)
Scene Description: rounded face; no hair or head-cover; one eye damaged [or intended that way?]
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LBH02: human figure - head?
Scene Description: perhaps a fabulous beast?
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LBH03: human figure - head - wearing hat - flat hat
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LBH04: human figure - head
![rounded face; no hair or head-cover; one eye damaged [or intended that way?]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120914093_compressed.png)
Scene Description: rounded face; no hair or head-cover; one eye damaged [or intended that way?]
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI [with SHM permission]
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![a full set of photographs of this font by Lennart Karlsson and the museum inventory archival notes are available at the SHM archive web site [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008040_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a full set of photographs of this font by Lennart Karlsson and the museum inventory archival notes are available at the SHM archive web site [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]
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Image Source: photograph taken 25 September 1995 by Lennart Karlsson
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view of basin
Scene Description: showing the considerable damage on it
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 16 June 1997 by BSI [with SHM permission]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: a pattern made of three- and five-leaf plants inside heart-shaped frames, on their sides, run around the upper side of two of the panels on the sides -- this motif is replicated on parts of the base
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus
Scene Description: runs around the upper side of two of the panels on the sides
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 4
Scene Description: the stems of these columns appear to be made of several shafts clustered together; the capitals and bases are made of mouldings
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design element - motifs - braid
Scene Description: at the lower end of the sides panels
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin - upper view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
![[NB: the original photograph has been edited for lens distortion correction]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008048_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: the original photograph has been edited for lens distortion correction]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Björn Lindell, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 8 September 2012 by Björn Lindell [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BurserydsKyrka-3.jpg] [accessed 8 October 2012]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2012 by Björn Lindell [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:BurserydsKyrka-3.jpg] [accessed 14 September 2012
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: in 1932
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1932 by Hulda Andersson; in Riksantikvarieämbetet [http://kmb.raa.se/cocoon/bild/show-image.html?id=16000200069148] [accessed 14 September 2012]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "manshuvud - treenighetssymbol (?)"
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Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950925F1] [accessed 12 September 2021]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "manshuvud - treenighetssymbol (?)"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "manshuvud"
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "manshuvud"
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![inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]
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![inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]. The B&W photograph attached to this page of the notes is probably from Roosval (1917)](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008046_compressed.png)
Scene Description: inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]. The B&W photograph attached to this page of the notes is probably from Roosval (1917)
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![inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008044_compressed.png)
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![inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008043_compressed.png)
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![inventory archival notes on this font, Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1121008041_compressed.png)
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2012 by BSI [with SHM permission]
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: one is an eight-petal rosette; then a five upside-down trefoiled leaves inside a heat-shaped enclosure; two others are five-petalled and are upright -- the latter two motifs are replicated on the upper part of two of the basin sides
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design element - motifs - plant - acanthus?
Scene Description: to the right and left of the head or animal
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design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: acanthus, cinquefoil and eight-petal rosette in a square
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Scene Description: museum label
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00181BUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1997-06-16; 2012-08-28
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Arnbjörn [Roosval, Blomqvist, Jansson, Borg, SHM] / Bestiarius group [variant]
Cognate Fonts: [a 1936 copy now in the original church]
Museum: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, SHM 4454
Church / Chapel Name: [original font from Burseryds kyrka moved to the SHM in the 1870s]
Font Location in Church: [now in a museum]
Church Notes: present 18thC building replaced an earlier church, originally medieval; new church restored 1965
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates are for the church] Kyrkvägen 16, 330 26 Burseryd, Sweden
Site Location: Småland, Jönköpings län, Sweden, Europe
Directions to Site: Burseryd is located about 4 km W of Smålands-stenar and road 26 [the original font is now in a museum]
Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift
Historical Region: Jönköpings län, Småland
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum since 1870) / damaged and repaired font -- the church now has a copy of the 13th-century font that is at the Statens Historiska Museum, in Stockholm, since the 1870s
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated by Margit Hovning in Roosval (1917) [25. Inv. 4454] as a font made of sandstone with an inscription by master mason Arnbjörn, received in the SHM in 1870. Described and illustrated in Blomqvist (1929) with references to Hovning in Roosval [cf. supra] and the inscription with the attribution to Arnbjörn [aka Arinbiorn]. Jansson (1987) records the transcription of the Runic inscription and the English translation; it gives the name of the artist who made it, Arinbjörn, as well as the name of Vidkunn, "the priest who wrote me". Listed in Drake (2002) as a variant of the Bestiarius workshop fonts. Inventoried and illustrated in Borg (2002), who mentions a copy in the church. Described and illustrated in the Statens Historiska Museum inventory archive notes [http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=94253] [accessed 8 October 2012] as a baptismal font made of sandstone in the mid-13th century by Arnbjörn; cracked and repaired with internal metal staples. On-site notes: this font is made of a single block of stone; the basin has four columns which divide the sides into four parts ornamented in different ways: on one part of the basin, a Runic inscription; to the right of the inscription, in the next section, there are two four-legged creatures facing each other; a winged and eared creature fighting with a lion which has a human head wearing a hood; an acanthus band frames the upper and lower edges of this section; to the right of this section, there are two horses facing each other; to the right of this, two lions, very stylized and similar to a later Gotland font-master's images of lions; the base is ornamented with four heads (three are clearly human, the fourth is a monster/animal) and acanthus vine motifs fill the spaces in between. No cover present. The present font in the church is a 1936 copy of the original font which was moved to the SHM in 1870.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Lennart Karlsson, to the Middle Ages curator and to the staff at the Statens Historiska Museum of Stockholm for their help in documenting this font during our two visits to the SHM
COORDINATES
UTM: 33V 396470 6341867
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 57.208222, 13.286056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 57° 12′ 29.6″ N, 13° 17′ 9.8″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, sandstone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: no drainage system
Rim Thickness: 10.5-16 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 58-60 cm* / 59 cm** / 60 cm***
Diameter (includes rim): 80.5-90 cm* / 82 cm** / ***
Basin Depth: 28 cm** / ***
Height of Basin Side: 38 cm* / 39 cm***
Basin Total Height: 42-45 cm* / 45 cm***
Height of Base: 35-37 cm* / 36 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 79-80 cm* / 80 cm** / 79 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Roosval (1917) / *** Borg (2002)
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: runes
Inscription Location: on one side of the basin
Inscription Text: 1)"Arinbjörn gjorde mig. Vidkum präst skrev mig och här skall [jag] stå en tid" [SHM]
2)"Arinbjörn made me. Vidkunn the priest wrote me. And here I shall stand for a while." English translation in Jansson
3)"Arinbiorn gorthe mik vitkunder prester skref mik ok har skal um stand stanta. D.a. Arnbjorn gjorde mig, Vidkunn prast skref meg, och har skall (jag) lange standa." Swedish translation by Roosval
Inscription Source: SHM; Jansson (1987: 169); Roosval (1917: 52)
REFERENCES
- Blomqvist, Ragnar, Studier i Smålands romanska stenkonst, 1929, p. 116 and pl. XXVI: 1
- Borg, Raine, Smålands medeltida dopfuntar, Göteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002, p. 32-33
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 183
- Jansson, Sven B. F., Runes in Sweden, Gidlunds, Sweden: Royal Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Central Board of National Antiquiries, 1987, p. 169, 171
- Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918, p. 142, 143
- Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917, p. 52-53 and figs. 69, 70