Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen
Object Number
KMS5552
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
Dimensions
Overall Open (diameter): 50mm (5 cm)
Description
Upper scene: Crucifixion with the Swoon of the Virgin and the Vera Icon; lower scene: Carrying of the Cross with St. Veronica
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions around edges:
tuam cruce(m) adoramus d(omi)ne viam gloriosam recolimus passio(n)es q(ui) pas(sus) es(t) p(ro) nobis misere nobis [inner upper] [antiphon in the mass of Adoratio Crucis]
jugum meum suave est et onus meum leve. Adam Theodrici me fecit [inner lower]
levemus corde nostra cum manibus ad dominum in celos [Lamentations 3:41]/ attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus [outer] [Lamentations 1:12]
[source: SMK website]
tuam cruce(m) adoramus d(omi)ne viam gloriosam recolimus passio(n)es q(ui) pas(sus) es(t) p(ro) nobis misere nobis [inner upper] [antiphon in the mass of Adoratio Crucis]
jugum meum suave est et onus meum leve. Adam Theodrici me fecit [inner lower]
levemus corde nostra cum manibus ad dominum in celos [Lamentations 3:41]/ attendite et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus [outer] [Lamentations 1:12]
[source: SMK website]
Published References
Jaap Leeuwenberg, De gebedsnoot van Eewert Jansz van Bleiswick en andere werken van Adam Dirksz (Ghent: Miscellanea Jozef Duverger, Bijdragen tot de Kunstgeschiedenis der Nederlanden II, 1968, pp 614—624)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 24
Provenance
Provenance
Transferred from Royal Treasury to Cabinet of Curiosities in 1826; transferred to Royal Academy of Arts in the 1880s; entered the Collections of the Statens Museum for Kunst in 1905
Previous Owner(s)
Royal Treasury
Royal Academy of Arts