Holts / Önundarfjörður-Holts
Image copyright © John Blair, 2007
Photograph and permission received
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B01: inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Blair, 2007
Image Source: photograph supplied by John Blair, of Queen's College, Oxford, 31 July 2007
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Blair, 2007
Image Source: photograph supplied by John Blair, of Queen's College, Oxford, 31 July 2007
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received
INFORMATION
FontID: 13068HOL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: National Museum of Iceland, Reykjavik
Church/Chapel: Holtskirkja
Country Name: Iceland
Location: Onundarfjordur
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality area Ísafjarðarbær in N-W Iceland, approximately 20 minutes drive from Ísafjöður town.
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: 1594?
Century and Period: 16th century(late?)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. John Blair, of Queen's College, Oxford, for the information on and photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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"Wooden font from Holtskirkja in Onundarfjordur, with inscription in Low German that Roleif Eis made it for his friend the Revd. Sveinn Simonarson of Holt, 1594" -- now [July 2007] in the National Museum of Iceland. The NAT web site [http://www.nat.is/Churches/holt_church.htm] notes both the earlier font and the present one: "a beautifully carved baptismal [i.e., the wooden font] imported from Germany [...] The present baptismal [font] is the work of woodcarver Agust Sigmundsson."
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: wood
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Low German
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the sides of the font
Inscription Text: [transcription not available]
Inscription Source: [cf. FontNotes]