superscription

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Titian, Plate 126, in dealing with the incident of the tribute to Cæsar, has selected the moment Doré selected, when Jesus asks, "Whose image and superscription hath it?"

From The Great Painters' Gospel Pictures Representing Scenes and Incidents in the Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ by Bailey, Henry Turner

In the two that have a superscription, it is styled the Book of Kriemhild.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

As he removed it from its resting place he observed that the poor ink of the superscription had run, and the letters of the address were faded and fast disappearing.

From Ralph of the Roundhouse by Chapman, Allen

"I have seen it myself, Richard," said Sir John Grey; "the superscription is clear and distinct--'To Sir Thomas Grey, Knight,'--and not one word is mentioned therein of anything like ransom."

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

If next we turn to the more general epistle known as 1st John the lack of any superscription is more than counterbalanced by the writer's full and explicit declarations regarding motive and occasion.

From The Making of the New Testament by Bacon, Benjamin Wisner