Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
after 1519
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, Switzerland
Object Number
7.15.67
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall diameter: 6.5 cm (2 9/16 in.)
Description
Polyptych: upper: Christ in the House of Mary and Martha with the apostles; interior left wing: Martha visits the sick while Mary dances in the background; interior right wing: Noli me tangere; exterior wings: upper left: man visits prisoners in the stocks, upper right: woman visits prisoners in the stocks, lower left: man visits woman in a tower, lower right: person being flogged on the Gallows; lower: Dance of Mary Magdalene
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
NON EST SERVUS MAIOR DOMINO SVO [outer upper; John 13:16]
SI ME PERSECVTI SVNT ET VOS PERSEQVENTUR [outer lower; John 15:20]
MARTHA MA[R]T[HA] SOLLICITA ES ET TVRBARIS ERGA PLVRIMA [inner upper; Luke 10:41]
EXTREMA GAVDII LVCTVS OCCVPAT. PROVERBIORV[M] xiiii [inner lower; Proverbs 14:13]
[source: Wetter 2011]
NON EST SERVUS MAIOR DOMINO SVO [outer upper; John 13:16]
SI ME PERSECVTI SVNT ET VOS PERSEQVENTUR [outer lower; John 15:20]
MARTHA MA[R]T[HA] SOLLICITA ES ET TVRBARIS ERGA PLVRIMA [inner upper; Luke 10:41]
EXTREMA GAVDII LVCTVS OCCVPAT. PROVERBIORV[M] xiiii [inner lower; Proverbs 14:13]
[source: Wetter 2011]
Published References
Evelin Wetter, Zwei spätmittelalterliche Betnüsse aus den südlichen Niederlanden (Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2011)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 22
Provenance
Provenance
Acquired from Leopold Blumka, 1959
Previous Owner(s)
Leopold Blumka