Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 157 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_164.jpg |
Transcript | The CoMm i the Council House Nen. I sentent'tam ferat priusquam cuncta ad amussim perpaulertt, on the left the same sentiment in German : Ein Richter soli kcin Urtheil geben soli die Sach erforschen cben. Over the little door is written *' Eins manns red ist eine halbe red. Man soil die Teyl verhdren bed.,, (One man's rede is but half the rede. The other side should be heard.) frescoes (now scarcely visible) between the windows are by Gabriel Weyer (1619 ?). As both Btdeker and Murray state that *' among them is a representation of the gu'iUot'tnty which is thus proved to be two centuries older than the French Revolution, may be worth while to remark that nothing of the sort is proved. The falling-axe, fatf-hei/, the Italian Jetto here represented, was of course much used at this time, as the engravings of Lucas Cranach, Georg Pencz and others and as our own 11 :>bet and Morton's Maiden show. But the guillotine, properly so-called, was a revived and modified form of this. The instrument then took its name from the inventor of these modifications, M. Guillotin, a philanthropic French | . who designed " to reduce the pain of death to a shiv< plcmcnt nous tuera Et que Ion nommt as the loyalist song first phrased The bror. Peter Vi . hich once the lower from the upper half of the hall has now disappear The email hall on the second floor is used now as the cit\ court. It has recently been repaired and contains, besides portraits of modern Nuremberg <57 |