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A 15th c. finger ring engraved with the five wounds of Christ. Each wound is labeled: 'The well of pitty, the well of merci, the well of confort, the well of gracy, the well of everlastingh lyffe' The wounds were originally filled with red enamel.
Finger-ring; gold; engraved. The thick broad broad hoop depicts Christ standing in tomb with the Cross and the Instruments of Passion behind
“I am asleep in the side hole, do not wake my noble soul.”
“There I enjoy all the delicatessen. Gloria.”
“I go for a walk in the [side] hole.”
Craig D. Atwood, Little Side Holes: Moravian Devotional Cards of the Mid-Eighteenth Century (2009)
“Living in the side hole.”
Wie warmsichs liegt im Seitelein / Ehre dem Seitenshrein (How warm it is lying in the little side / Honor the side shrine).
A rather novel use of side wound imagery, “to fetch unto thee the fairie Sibylia”:
— Described in Reginald Scot’s skeptical treatise The Discoverie of Witchcraft (book 15, ch. 8); excerpted in Elf Queens and Holy Friars by Richard Firth Green (pg. 108).
Christ Sitting in Judgement, from a hymnal made in France c. 1525. (original in the Free Library of Philadelphia, Rare Book Department)
