Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1483-1531
Medium
boxwood with copper case and velvet pouch
Credit Line
Rijksmuseum
Object Number
BK-1981-1
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Closed: 46.6mm × 49.4mm (4.7 × 4.9 cm)
Overall Open: 41.6mm × 41.6mm × 95.2mm (4.2 × 4.2 × 9.5 cm)
Overall Open: 41.6mm × 41.6mm × 95.2mm (4.2 × 4.2 × 9.5 cm)
Description
Upper scene: Crucifixion with the Virgin being supported by St John the Evangelist, Mary Magdalene and Mary of Cl(e)opas in the left foreground; Lower scene: Carrying of the Cross with St. Veronica displaying the vera icon
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
tuam cruce(m) adoramus d(omi)ne via(m) gloriosa(m) recolimus passio(n)es q(ui) pas(sus) es(t) p(ro) n(obi)s m(ortuu)s n(obi)s [Antiphon from Mass of the Adoratio Crucis] [around scene of Crucifixion]
jugu(m) ec(ce) meum suave est et onus meu(m) leve [around scene of Carrying of Cross]
jhesus nazeren(u)s rex iudeoru(m) [around star on outside top of bead]
eewert ian z' va(n) bleiswick [around sun on outside bottom of bead] [name of owner]
[source: Rijksmuseum website]
tuam cruce(m) adoramus d(omi)ne via(m) gloriosa(m) recolimus passio(n)es q(ui) pas(sus) es(t) p(ro) n(obi)s m(ortuu)s n(obi)s [Antiphon from Mass of the Adoratio Crucis] [around scene of Crucifixion]
jugu(m) ec(ce) meum suave est et onus meu(m) leve [around scene of Carrying of Cross]
jhesus nazeren(u)s rex iudeoru(m) [around star on outside top of bead]
eewert ian z' va(n) bleiswick [around sun on outside bottom of bead] [name of owner]
[source: Rijksmuseum website]
Markings
Coats of arms of Eewert Jansz van Bleiswijk (1460-1531) and his wife Erkenraad van Groenewegen (d. 1544) of Delft, who married in 1483
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); Jaap Leeuwenberg, Beeldhouwkunst in het Rijksmuseum (`S-Gravenhage: Staatssuitgeverij; Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1973, pp 126-7); Henk van Os et al, Netherlandish Art in the Rijksmuseum, 1400-1600 (Amsterdam: Waanders Publishers, 2000); Evelin Wetter, Zwei spätmittelalterliche Betnüsse aus den südlichen Niederlanden (Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2011)
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 25
Provenance
Provenance
Eewert Jansz van Bleiswick (1460-1531), Delft; Guiljelmus Bathasa Emants, Delft; Marcellus Emants
Previous Owner(s)
Eewert Jansz van Bleiswick
Guiljelmus Bathasa Emants
Marcellus Emants