Sacerdos Scapulari atro & veste candida quae in Valetudinario degit quo affecti Valetudine & hospites egeni recipiuntur; Atratus ordo mulierum quae conducta mercede assunt aergotis; Liber sacerdos, quae suo sumtu vinit. habetq potestatem nubendi si velit; Ordo poenintentium mulierum peccatricum albat. quo mulla Virgines inte grae a Viris recipiuntur
Abraham de Bruyn Flemish
Publisher Joos de Bosscher Netherlandish
Not on view
Engraving, part of the second part of 'Omnium pene Europae, Asiae, Aphricae atque Americae Gentium Habitus' (Costumes of the various nations of Europe, Asia, Africa and America), a series of prints representing figures wearing ecclesiastical vestments from various parts of the world, engraved by Abraham de Bruyn and published by Joos de Bosscher in 1581.
The engraving represents four nuns of different religious orders. On the left, cleric wears a black scapula and white habit, with a sort of bun headdress with lappets handing at her back. A second nun, belonging to a women's order in charge of attending the sick, wears a long, flared veil her scapula and a matching flared tunic. She carries a bucket with eggs and a hen in her arms. A third nun wears a long, wide veil over a scapula and long-sleeved, flared tunic; she holds a rosary in her hands. Finally, a fourth woman, member of a penitent order of 'female sinners', represented from her back, wears a long veil and a tunic.
