Mons
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LB01: inscription
Scene Description: a/p Ronse (1929)
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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 12)
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LB02: animal - mammal - lion
Scene Description: fighting a fabulous monster
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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 12)
Copyright Instructions: PD
view of base
Scene Description: remaning fragment of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 12)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
FontID: 05896MON
Museum and Inventory Number: Musée de Mons
Church/Chapel: [origin unknown]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Hainaut, Wallonie / Wallonne
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Lambertus de Tornaco
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
A fragment which corresponds to the lower base of a columnar base is included in Ronse (1929: 11n and fig. 12) among baptismal fonts of the 12th century; he describes it as "le soubassement des anciens fonts de Mons"; the visible side has two animals, a lion on the right and a winged quadruped monster on the left, in a fight scene; he reports an inscription on the side [cf. Inscription area]; the name "Lambertus de Tornaco" that appears on this base may have been the carver or commissioner; Ronse suggests that it may refer to Lambert, bishop of Tournai and Noyon ca. 1118. Drake (2001: 47) states that the font at Mons is "no longer thought to be Tournai".
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Number of Pieces: one [fragment]
Basin Interior Shape: [missing]
Basin Exterior Shape: [missing]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: as transcribed in Ronse; the reference may be to Lambert/Lambertus, bishop of Tournai ca. 1118 [cf. Font notes]
Inscription Location: on the side of the lower base
Inscription Text: "LAMBERTUS DE TORNACO ME F[...]"
Inscription Source: Ronse (1929: 11n and fig. 12 caption)
REFERENCES
Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885
Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929