Monday, March 3, 2008

ok

So one of the things I love about my job is that at any given time, someone will hand me a book, score, CD, DVD, or anything else. Just really at any time. The other day, an organist handed me this tiny little book. he said it had the earliest printed "Ein Feste Burg"-- you know Holy Fortress hymn thing. Whatev- after he showed me that page, I found this:


and whole lot of other cool engravings, but when I got to this one I almost lost my lunch:




If you can't make it out, it's a bunch of old dudes castrating a prepubescent boy. yelch. gross.

2 comments:

Thomas Hammond said...

gross

Unknown said...

Any chance they were circumscising the boy? Big Jewish event I understand...