Decade Rosary (partial)

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Musée de Cluny, Paris, France
Object Number
21.323
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner

Dimensions

Overall length: 15 cm (5 7/8 in.)

Description

Partial decade rosary: Paternoster - Upper scene: Holy Kinship: Virgin and Child with saints Anne, Cleophas and Salome; Lower scene: Virgin in the Sun
Two ave beads: first ave bead: the birth of Eve, Temptation, Eve imploring God; Second ave bead: Resurrection of Lazarus, Christ's Entry into Jerusalem, Last Supper

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Latin inscriptions carved on Pater Noster

AVE RADIX SANCTA EX QUA MVN[di]LVX EST ORTA [inner upper]

IN SOLE POSVIT TABERNACVLVM SVVM [inner lower]

BENE OMNIA FECIT DOMINVS [outer upper]

O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI [outer lower]

[source: Sauzay, 1861]

Published References

Alexandre Sauzay, Catalogue du Musée Sauvageot (Paris: Musée Impérial du Louvre, 1861) , p. 48, no. 191

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 16

Provenance

Provenance
Sauvageot Collection, Paris
Previous Owner(s)
Charles Sauvageot

Subjects

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