Osnabruck No. 2 / Osnabrück

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 19 May 2007 by Henward [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_Cathedral_Osnabrueck.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]

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Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist

Scene Description: here on the right, identified in the partially visible inscription

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück_2.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück_2.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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angel - holding clothes

Scene Description: to the left, and part of the Baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph in the Dom St. Petrus Osnabrück site [www.ndr.de/ratgeber/reise/glocken/gnosnabrueck103.html] [accessed 24 January 2015]

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animal - paw - 3

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück_2.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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design element - motifs - handle - 2

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück_2.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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inscription - detail

Scene Description: the name of WILBERNVS, sponsor (?) of the font, clearly visible on the moulding below Christ -- the inscription on the right identifies the figure inside the curved moulding as John the Baptist

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück_2.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portal_des_Dom_Osnabrück.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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view of church exterior - west portal

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Blick vom Markt auf den Dom mit Domhof in Osnabrück. Auf dem Domhof die Statue des Löwenpudel."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dom_Osnabrück2017.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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view of church interior - baptistery

Scene Description: with the early-13thC font inside

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2017 by Ramsch [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Dom_Osnabrück.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2010 by Elisabeth Pimper [www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/display/22020717] [accessed 24 January 2015]

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view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 April 2015 by Hans A. Rosbach [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altar_Dom_St._Peter_(Osnabrück)_2015-04-11-01.jpg] [accessed 31 March 2019]

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view of font and cover

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2007 by Henward [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_Cathedral_Osnabrueck.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]

Copyright Instructions: Released into the public domain by the author [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_Cathedral_Osnabrueck.jpg] [accessed 27 March 2010]

INFORMATION

FontID: 11481OSN

Church/Chapel: Römisch-katholische Dom St. Peter [aka Dom St. Petrus]

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Kleine Domsfreiheit 5, 49074 Osnabrück, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Osnabrück, Niedersachsen

Directions to Site: Located W of Hanover

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Osnabrück (RC)

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the N side of the nave at the W end of the church

Date: ca. 1200-1220?

Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Late Romanesque / Early Gothic?

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Gerardus

Church Notes: original cathedral here 785; destroyed by Normans; present building ca. 1100 but earliest part is ca. 1220 font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Lübke (1870) notes a 12th-century metal font "cast by Master Gerardus, rests on three feet, and shows, in relief, the baptism of Christ, and the apostle princes Peter and Paul." Favreau (1985) cites "Die Inschriften de Stadt Osnabrück" p. 8, n. 9, as source for the inscription (Favreau, 1985, footnote 209). On-site notes: baptismal font made of bronze, consisting of a bucket-shaped basin resting on three slender animal legs; at opposite ends on the upper side of the basin are two semicircular handles; there is no real program on the font, but around the upper half of the basin are engraved five semi-circles framed in double lines with inscriptions sandwiched between them; inside the semi-circles are aspects of the Baptism of Christ: one shows a bust of Christ partly submerged in the waters of the Jordan, with only his haloed head and blessing hands protruding from them; another shows John the Baptist; another has an angel; the last two include the Apostles Peter and Paul. There are inscriptions in two other places, the strips that run around the upper rim, and the one around the middle of the basin. The lower end of the basin has a similar strip but it contains no inscription. The font has a metal cover, slightly convex and provided with two handles. The inscriptions are recorded in the Deutsche Inschriften Online. Niedersachsen / Osnabrück [www.inschriften.net/osnabrueck/inschrift/nr/di026-0009.html#content] [accessed 23 January 2015]. The inscription around the rim refers to the salvific power of the sacrament of Baptism and refers to the 'new Adam'; the five inscriptions framing the scenes on the side, identify the persons inside; the inscription around the middle identifies the sponsor (?) of the font as Wilbernus, and the master as Gerardus.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.283333, 8.05

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 17′ 0″ N, 8° 3′ 0″ E

UTM: 32U 435195 5792977

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: 1. "A ω+ · QVANDO · SACRAMENTVM · FIT · AQVE · SIMPLEX · ELEMENTVM ·+ · VERBO · VIRTVTIS · OP(ER)ATVR · DONA · SALVTIS ·+ · NAM · REDIT · AD · VITAM · NOVVS · ET · VETVS · INTERIT · ADAM ·" 2. "BAPTIZATUR · XPCa) / BAPTISTA IOHANNES / SANCTVS PETRVS / SANCTVS PAVLVS / ANGELVS · DOMINI · " 3. "+ · WILBERNVS · PETRE · CONFERT · ISTVT · TIBI · DONVM ·+ · VT · P(ER) TE · SVMMVM · POSSIT · HABERE · BONV(M) · GERARD(VS) · ME FEC(IT) ·"

Inscription Source: Deutsche Inschriften Online. Niedersachsen / Osnabrück [www.inschriften.net/osnabrueck/inschrift/nr/di026-0009.html#content] [accessed 23 January 2015]

LID INFORMATION

Material: metal,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Favreau, Robert, "Inscription des fonts baptismaux d'Hildesheim", 38, 2, Cahiers de civilisation medievale, 1985, pp. 115-140; r["References"]

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870

Omilanowska, Malgorzata, Germany, New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2001