Bonifacio No. 1
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Image and Permission received (e-mail of June 18, 2004)
Results: 4 records
BBU01:
design element - motifs - rope
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BS01:
inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes and InscriptionArea]
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Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of June 18, 2004)
BU01:
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - trefoiled arches
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Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of June 18, 2004)
view of stoup
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Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of June 18, 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 03828BON
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée du Palazzu Publicu
Church/Chapel: [originally from the Eglise Sainte-Marie-Majeure]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: France
Location: Corse-du-Sud, Corse / Corsica
Directions to Site: Bonifacio is located at the southermost tip of the island, 150 kms SE of Ajaccio
Font Location in Church: The stoup is now [2004] in the museum
Date: 1463
Century and Period: 15th century (mid), Late Medieval
Listed in Enlart (1902, p. 785 footnote 1) as a holy-water stoup dated by an inscription to 1463. The object, a wall-mounted basin made of marble or of a highly-polished limestone, is now [June 2004] located in the Musée du Palazzu Publicu of Bonifacio. The decoration consists of a rope motif around most of the upper basin side, below which is a blind arcade of trefoil arches, with the inscription "1463 DIC [or DIE?] 2 M.A. VINCENTELLI" running on the spandrels of the arcade; the inside of the basin well is decorated with concave ribbing. The back of the basin, towards the piece that mounts on the wall is unfinished. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the images of and other information on this object]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round (wall-mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: multi-lobed
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: letters and numbers
Inscription Location: in the spandrels of the arcade that surrounds the basin
Inscription Text: "1463 DIC [or DIE?] 2 M.A. VINCENTELLI"
Inscription Source: Montserrat Estela (Barcelona, Spain) [e-mail]; Enlart (1902: 785 footnote 1) mentions only the date
REFERENCES
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902
