Book Title: Het Nieuwe Testament ons salichmaeckers Iesv Christi, mitsgaders d'epistelen : wt het Oude Testament, soo die door 't jaer in den dienst der h. kercke ghelesen worden. / Oversien ende verbetert na den laetsten Roomschen text, door den eerw. H. Henricus van den Leemputte, Licentiaet in de h. Godheyt. Verciert met veel schoone figueren, gesneden door Christoffel van Sichem, voor P.I.P.

Author: Leemputte, Henricus van den, 1588-1657

Image Title: Zechariah in the Temple

Scripture Reference:

• Luke 1 (further images / scripture text)

Description: Zechariah burns incense in the Temple, when the angel Gabriel appears and tells him that his wife Elizabeth will give birth to John the Baptist. Includes the monogram of the woodcutter, Christoffel van Sichem II (1577-1658) on the left of Zacharias; his son, Christoffel van Sichem III (1618-1659), may have collaborated with him on these images.

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