Forficiferorum ordo albatus; Gladiatorum, ordo albatus, cum binis ensib. rubei coloris; S. Ambrosij ordo pullatus, 490; Iniesuatorum ordo palium gestat albidum & cuculionem pullum, 1365; Ordo S. Hiernymi pallium pullum. & cuculion atrum gestat, 490; Humiliatorum ordo candidatus, 1189; Cruciferorum ordo albatus; Indianus monachus atro pallio & cuculione candido; Ambrosiani ordinis alterius vestitus candidus, 490; Clauigerorum ordo atricolor; Fratrum stelliserorum atro vestitu; Stelliserorum ordo Monachorum atratis
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 twelve monks, members of different ecclesiastical orders, arranged in two horizontal rows of six. Each monk is dressed in the habits corresponding to his order, and the inscriptions below each figure describe, in most cases, the colors of the dress. Most of the monks represented wear hoods, copes and tunics, and many of them also hold Bibles or books in their hands, some of them reading. An Ambrosian monk, on the first row, wears a biretta and holds a scroll of paper. To the left, a Gregorian monk has a cloak with two crossing swords. Two monks on the second row, on the right, have stars on their chests; another monk has two crossed keys on the left breast of his cope.
