The garden of Eden illuminated by light symbolising the Trinity. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol.

[Place of publication not identified] : Sadeler (Sadeler)

1 print : line engraving and etching ; platemark 20.1 x 25.9 cm

Invisibia Dei a creatura mundi per ea quae facta sunt intellectu conspiciuntur, sempiternaque eius virtus & divinitas. Rom. 1 ... Symbolum. Athanasii. et Nicenum ... Vera et christiana fides ... omnipotens Dominus ... In principio ... Rom. 2 ... H. Bol f. A.C. sculps. Sadeler autor et excudit The quotation at the top is Romans 1.20. From the left to the right are: Genesis 1.1-2; Psalm 33.6; Matthew 28.19; Romans 2.7. The Hebrew inscriptions, from top to bottom, are: "Yahweh", the sacred tetragrammaton, "devar", meaning "word", and "ruah elohim", meaning "the spirit of God". The main text relates the symbolism within the picture to the Athanasian and Nicene creeds, both of which are Trinitarian forms developed around the time of the Council of Chalcedon in 451. They emphasise the "double succession" of spirit from both God the Father and the Son

Sadeler is named as "autor": meaning that he selected the texts?

Wellcome Collection 15483i