Texupan / Santa Catarina Texupan
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Scene Description: the page of CODEX SIERRA, the account ledger [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: detail of a illustration in Lara (2008)
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Scene Description: the drawing may or may not be representative of the actual font -- the image corresponds to the entry in the account ledger for repairs to the font [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jaime Lara, 2008
Image Source: illustration in Lara (2008)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 13799TEX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Santa Catarina
Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]
Country Name: Mexico
Location: Oaxaca
Directions to Site: In the municipality of Teposcolula, Mixteca Baja area
Font Location in Church: unknown
Century and Period: 16th century(mid?), Baroque
Font Notes:
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Lara (2008) reproduces a page of the Codex Sierra, an account ledger of the parish of Santa Catarina Texupan for the year 1558, containing an "outlay for the carpenter from Mexico City, who repaired the baptismal font". The ledger shows a drawing/painting of the [a?] baptismal font, a traditional design consisting of a plain he,ispheric basin raised on a plain circular pedestal base, and a foliated lower basee appears to be a plain round wooden cover. It is not clear what the carpenter's work was. The text of the ledger appears to be Nahuatl.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Lara, Jaime, Christian texts for Aztecs: art and liturgy in Colonial Mexico, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008