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B01: inscription

Scene Description: Mentions Pope Paul III and dates the font to 1542

Image Source: digital image in http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/Art454L-07-HuexotlaChimalhuaca/I00007.html [accessed 1 May 2006]

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B1R01: design element - motifs - leaf - acanthus?

Scene Description: all around; a typical rendition of the acanthus leave in Mexican fonts of this period

Image Source: digital image in http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/Art454L-07-HuexotlaChimalhuaca/I00007.html [accessed 1 May 2006]

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B2R01: design element - motifs - scroll or tendril

Scene Description: all around the lower register of the basin sides

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view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 September 2012 by Klautopia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Templo_y_Antiguo_Convento_San_Vicente_Ferrer.JPG] [accessed 31 May 2013]

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Scene Description: shows the secondary basin

Image Source: digital photograph in 11 February 2013 WordPress.com http://reporterosenmovimiento.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/p2100264.jpg [accessed 31 May 2013]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09198CHI

Church/Chapel: Iglesia del antiguo convento franciscano de San Vicente Ferrer [aka Ex Convento y Parroquia de San Vicente Ferrer]

Church Patron Saints: St. Vincent Ferrer

Church Location: Av. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz No. 8, Col Centro, C.P. 56800, Chimalhuacán Ozumba, Méx. -- Tel. 01(597) 976 -1315

Country Name: Mexico

Location: México

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valle de Chalco

Historical Region: Estado de Ozumba

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Date: 1542

Century and Period: 16th century(mid), Tequitqui

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Duverger (2003) includes this font as one of the late 16th-century Mexican baptismal vessels with pre-Hispanic influences on their ornamentation, in this case, in the execution of the tendrils and the inscription that dates the font in the Franciscan convent to 1542. The font is noted with an illustration in a set of notes [course notes probably] posted on the web in the CAL STATE site http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/Art454L-07-HuexotlaChimalhuaca/I00007.html [accessed 1 May 2006] as "carved with joyful Indian floral motifs" [NB: the upper register of the basin side is decorated with the typical rendering of the acanthus leave by Mexican sculptors of the period; the lower register is more in the tradition of the Old-World scroll and/or tendril motif found on medieval baptismal fonts] [NB: Pope Paul III (1534-1549), born Alejandro Farnese (1468-1549)]. This font is featured on the back of the 200 peso bill [http://www.banxico.org.mx/billetes-y-monedas/informacion-general/billetes-y-monedas-de-fabricacion-actual/billete-de-200-pesos/pagina-billete-200-pesos.html] [accessed 31 May 2013] -- [Image at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Billete_$200_Mexico_Tipo_F_Reverso.jpg [accessed 31 May 2013]]. There is a plain small secondary font next to it [or is it attached?].. According to Ballesteros César (2008) the writer Octavio Paz (1982) got the date of Sor Juana's date wrong: "En cambio Alberto G. Salceda y Guillermo Ramírez España encontraron una fe de bautismo en la parroquia de Chimalhuacán, a cuya jurisdicción pertenecía Nepantla. En ella se asienta que el 2 de diciembre de 1648 fue bautizada una niña: “Inés, hija de la Iglesia; fueron su padrinos Miguel Ramírez y Beatriz Ramírez”. Los padrinos eran hermanos de la madre de Juana Inés. Es casi seguro que la Inés del acta de 1648 sea nuestra Juana Inés. Así, era tres años mayor de lo que dice su biógrafo... “El testamento de la madre confirma el acta de bautismo de Chimalhuacán”... (pp. 96 y ss.) añade que “El padre de Juana Inés fue Pedro Manuel de Asbaje y Vargas Machuca, caballero vizcaíno, nada se sabe de él”..."

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Duverger mentions the date, but does not mention whether it is written in Roman or Arabic numerals

Inscription Location: around the middle of the basin

Inscription Text: "[...] PAVLO TERTIO AD LAVDEM DEI [...] [1542]"

Inscription Source: Mentioned in Duverger (2003) without the text -- cf. Image area

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: flat and plain wooden lid

REFERENCES

Ballesteros César, Claudia, Inventario del Archivo Parroquial de San Vicente Ferrer, Chimaluacán, Estado de México, México: Apoyo al Desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de México, 1982

Duverger, Christian, Pierres métisses: l'art sacré des indiens du Mexique au XVIe siècle, Paris: Seuil, 2003