The Holy Cross with Saint Sebastian, Saint Roch and Saint John Nepomuk, serving as an amulet against plagues, witchcraft etc. Coloured woodcut.

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1 print : woodcut, with gouache ; image 8.2 x 5.4 cm

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INRI ✝ Z ✝ D I A I : I S ✝ B I Z ✝ S A B ✝ Z M R A ✝ H G F ✝ B F R S The meaning of the lettering is explained by Sannig, loc. cit.

References note

Bernhard Sannig, Rituale ecclesiasticum continens varias absolutiones, benedictiones, conjurationes, exorcismos, ritus, ac alias caeremonias ecclesiasticas, Cologne 1711, pp. 340-345
Don C. Skemer, 'Deciphering a central European plague amulet', Blog Wellcome Library, 14 October 2016

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Wellcome Collection 11165i

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