Augsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek — Th H 1475. Digital Reproduction: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 2015.
Molanus discusses objects between the categories of sacred and profane art and gives the example of limbs out of precious materials that decorate churches to commemorate the dead.
“This is the place to mention the arms, feet and other limbs, made of wax, silver or other materials, which are hung in commemoration of the health recovered by divine grace, it is right to count them among the intermediate images between the sacred and profane images.”
“Huc pertinet quod in Ecclesiis ad memorias sanctorum appendantur bracia, pedes aut similia, ex cera, aut argento, aut alia materia. Cum enim haec appendantur in memoriam restituae divinitus sanitatis, merito numerantur inter imagines quae medium locum obtinent inter sacras et prophanas.”
Molanus 1996, 266.
