Ismeretlen középkori harang Nagyszebenben

In 2000, on the occasion of the oldest church's rehabilitation in Nagyszeben built by the hospitaler order in the 13th century an unknown medieval bell was discovered which is not included in the modern corpora. The inscription on the small bell (height: 36 cm, the diameter of the lower rim: 44 cm, the diameter of the shoulder: 22 cm) is ad • iuva (!) • nos • deus • 1509 • (Help us, God). Between the words small reliefs can be seen: rosettes forming masks, a harpy and a lion. The bell was castered in a local workshop which was established by a master named Leonardus. The instrument is a late product of the workshop led by Steffanus Clockengisser and Paul Clockengisser at that time. In Nagyszeben were the most productive bell-founding workshops of the medieval Transylvania and ironically the above mentioned bell is the only instrument cast in that city which remained there.