Helenae ordo candidatus; Ordo Sophiae albatus & cruce rubea insignitus; Gregorianus monachus abido vestitu, 594; Constanstiensis ordo pallium gestat viride cuculionem rubeum & in co cruces crocei coloris binas; Camadulensis ordo albatus, 901; Stellatus ordo atricolor; Carthusianus albatus tuculione acuminato, 1186; Cisterciensis pallio atro vestem lineamalbi coloris super induit, 1098; Ordo flagellatorum, 1283; Grandimontensis monachus pro intima indusio loricamgestat & cuculione atrum, 1075; Ordo Wilhemitarum atro vestitu, 1246; Ordo S. Brigittae pullatus, 1370
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. A Gregorian Monk, on the center of first row, has a cross on his chest, and the monk on the right corner has a double cross on the left breast of the cope. On the second row, on the left, a Cistersian monk holds a crosier with a scrolling leaf, and a flagelating monk wears a toga and holds a whip and a bundle of branches on his hands.
