Decade Rosary

Object Name

Rosary

Artist/Maker

South Netherlandish

Object Type

Rosary

Date

1523-1539

Medium

boxwood

Credit Line

Paris, Louvre Museum, Department of Decorative Arts

Object Number

OA 5610

Location

AGO, Gallery 137 Margaret Eaton Gallery

Institution/Owner

Musée du Louvre

External Link

View this object on the source website

Dimensions

Description

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription

Each ave bead has an identifying letter beginning with B (next to pater noster), ending with L (no J) - texts are carved on scrolls held by apostles (Apostles' Creed: Renaissance letters), prophets (OT texts in `black letter') and sibyls

[carved on hoop of ring]
SANS FAVLTE [Renaissance letters]

[paternoster]

SANCTI PER FIDE VICERVY' REGNA heb' II [Hebrews 11:33; exterior upper half around trim]

OMNE QVOD NON EST EX FIDE PECCATV' EST ro [Romans 14:23; exterior lower half]

CARNIS RESVRREXIONEM ET VITAM ETERNA' [Renaissance letters on scroll held by St. Matthew]

IN CARNE MEA VIDEBO DEVM / JO [black letter on scroll held by Job 19:26 - both upper inner]

HELIZE [black letter label]

SEPTIES LAVARE IN IORDANE [black letter on scroll]

JUDAS THE [Renaissance letter label]

REMISSIONEM PECCATORVM [Renaissance letters on St. Jude's scroll]

B
SCAM ECCLESIA' CATHOLICA SACTORV' CO' 10 [St. Simon]
CONSVMMABO TESTAMENTV NOVVM jhe 31 [Jeremiah - source: Hebrews 8:8]
[indecipherable scroll held by sibyl]

C
CREDO IN SPIRITV' SANCTVM [St. James the Lesser]
SPIRITV MEO SR' OMN CARNE [Joel 2:28]
...hec fieri aut ycodei [sibyl]

D
INDE VERITVR' E' IVDICARE VIVOS ET MOR [St. Matthew]
IPSE INTER FRATRES DIVIDET ozee 13 [Hosea 13:15]
SECRETA AT' RELERABIT PACTORA [sibyl]

E
ASCENDIT I CELOS SEDET AD DEXTRA DEI PTIS OMI [St. Bartholomew]
EDIFICAT IN CELO ASCENSIONE SVA am. 9 [Amos 9:6]

F
TERCIA DIE RESVRREXIT A MORTVIS [St. Thomas]
EPOMVIT IONAM I ARIDAM jone 2 [Jonah 2:11]

G
DESCENDIT AD INFERNA [St. Philip]
EDCXIT VINCTOS DE LACV zacha 9 [Zachariah 9:11]

H
PASS'SB PONCIO CRVCIFIXVS MORTV SEP' [St. Andrew]
EGO SVM VERMIS Z NON HOMO ps. 21 [King David - source: Psalm 21:7]

I
QVI CEPTVS EST SPTV' SANCTO NAT' EX MARIA VIRGINE [St. James]
ECCO VIRGO COCIPIET PARIET FI esae [Isaiah 7:14]

K
ET IN IHM SV' XPM FILIV' EI' VINCV' DNM NRM' [St. John]
EXVLTABO IN DEO IHESV MEO abec 3 [Habakkuk 3:18]

L
CREDO IN DEVM PATRE' OMNIPOTETEM CREATORE CELI ET TERRE [St. Peter]
AVDI YSRAEL DNS DEVS SICVY POLLVS EST [Moses - source: Deuteronomy 6:3]
DE LXV E [Christ Child]

[source: Romanelli - note that Molinier 1902 has some of inscriptions transcribed in upper/lower with slight differences]

Markings

Coats of arms Floris van /Florent d'Egmont, count of Bueren and Leerden (1469-1539) and his wife Marguerite de Glymes are on the bezel: quarterly 1 and 4 chevronny, 2 and 3 a fesse embattled and counter embattled, overall an escutcheon charged with a saltire impaling the upper bears party fessewise, in chief a lion rampant and paly of 7 and inbase mascles - source: Romanelli