5186B

Shield of the Holy Spirit

Artist: Workshop of Juan Pablos
Title: Shield of the Holy Spirit
Date: ca. 1547
Medium: Woodcut. Illustration on fol. 63 of ¿Pedro de Gante (1480-1572)? Doctrina Chr[ist]iana en Le[n]gua Mexicana. Mexico: Juan Pablos, ca. 1547 (as claimed by Icazbalceta, Bibliografía mexicana del siglo XVI, pp. 80-81). Also used on fol. 123 of the 1553 edition of this work (cf. Grañén Porrúa 2010, pp. 33, 34, 57, 145).
Location: Antigua Imprenta de Juan Pablos, Ciudad de México.
Photo Source: Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA.
Correspondence Credit: Almerindo Ojeda
Note: This illustration is taken from a page of the facsimile of the entire Doctrina Chr[ist]iana made by the Huntington Library in 1930.
Item: 5186B