Slightly trimmed and damaged woodcut depicting Saint Francis de Paola arriving in Toulouse on a donkey and preaching predominantly to a group of women. In a flaming roundel at the top is Christ as the Man of Sorrows flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John, surrounded by the symbols of the four Evangelists, the Archangel Michael, and St. Francis of Assisi. Below this, two angels with rosaries hold aloft a roundel with the monograms IHS and AM [Alpha Omega]. The woodcut is signed with an armorial of a crosscut saw at the bottom center and in the middle ground with the inscription: "J [saw armorial] CRO".
Woodcut dimensions: 33.4 x 25 cm. (trimmed).
Leaf dimensions: 36 x 26.5 cm. (trimmed). No watermark in leaf.
Eleven copies of this woodcut were preserved as binder's waste in the binding of a notarial manuscript from Toulouse, 1519-1520 (now PML 78407.2), and dispersed through H.P. Kraus. Copies now at National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute Chicago, and Print Cabinet of the Bibliotheque nationale.
PML copy has slight worm damage from the binding and has been trimmed.
Colored by stencil in vermillion, rose, and a light and dark blue-grey.