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 229 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_232.jpg |
Transcript | The Churches of Nuremberg in St. Sebalduskirche.1 We have spoken at length of this exquisite work of art (p. 208), to which, says Eobanus Hessus in his poem on Nuremberg, no words can do justice and with which not even the greatest artists of past ages could have found fault. • Musa nee ulla queat tanto satis esse labori Nee verbis arquare opus immortale futurum ; Quod nequt Pra\itele*. nee Myron, nee Polycl Nemo Cares, nemo Scopas reprehendere posset." 1 The feast of St. Sebald was celebrated August 19th. The following verses from the mass sung in the Cathedral on that day in honour of the Saint may be of interest. Hie de Francis gen Propinquos poster^at. Ne in nsfisl vergat. Merits Vincentiam Eremrun elegit. Yincat ut malitiam Paucos contubernio Ert-mo assumit. It soli Domino Abs quo nil pra?sumit. Yisitat miraculis Hunc Deus frequenter Notum fecit patulis rinenter. Famt-m patit-ntibu- Fert refectionem. inentibu> Miram potionem. Aquam vcrtit in vinum Oiu iluraturum Panern opus siivintuo portunum. Mortuus deducitur Rudihus iumi: Nrsrnberv perducitur Divinis fomentis. 2:g |