Nordhausen No. 1 / Nordhusa / Nordhuse / Nordhusen / Northusia
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Apostle or saint - unidentified - 16
Scene Description: comic-like renderings; the sybols are supposed to help with their identification
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child
Scene Description: used as separators in the inscription are a series of tiny figures, among which is a Madonna and Child; Mary appears o be crowned here, on the left
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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design element - architectural - arcade - pointed arches - crocketed arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: a very stylised rendering, with a standing human figure in every arch
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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design element - motifs - quatrefoil - 16
Scene Description: a tiny one beneath each of the sixteen platforms that support the saintly figures around the basin
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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human figure - male - standing - arms akimbo - 4
Scene Description: dressed in 15thC attire [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_3.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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human figure - unidentified
Scene Description: alone or in pairs, as seen here
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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inscription
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: the modern church to which the old font was moved -- Source caption: "99734 Nordhausen, Justus-Jonas-Kirche, Hüpedenweg".
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Eckie22 Eckbert John, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 14 November 2012 by Eckie22 Eckbert John [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_-_Justus-Jonas-Kirche_Nordhausen.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: most of the church seen here ca. 1907 was destroyed in WWII
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Image Source: digital image of a 1907 postcadr by Brück & Sohn Kunstverlag Meißen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:09293-Nordhausen-1907-Petrikirche-Brück_%26_Sohn_Kunstverlag.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of church exterior - tower
Scene Description: the tower is all that survived of St. Petrikirche in the WWII British bombings
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Tilman2007, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 May 2017 by Tilman2007 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen,_Petrikirchturm_20170510_001.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bronzefünte (1429) in der Justus-Jonas-Kirche, ursprünglich aus St. Petri".
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Image Source: digital image of a 1887 illustration by Julius Schmidt, in Beschreibende Darstellung der älteren Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler der Stadt Nordhausen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Taufbecken_1429.png] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of font
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bronzetaufbecken (1429) von St. Petri, heute in der Justus-Jonas-Kirche, Nordhausen, Thüringen"
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of font
Scene Description: the torsade circling rod below the underbowl appears to be part of the modern central reinforcement
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_2.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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view of font base
Scene Description: the central pivital support appears to be a modern addition for reinforcement
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Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2015 by Achim55 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordhausen_Petri_Taufe_1.jpg] [accessed 29 April 2018]
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