Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1510
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Object Number
17.190.476
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Open: 83mm × 89mm × 15mm (8.3 × 8.9 × 1.5 cm)
Overall Closed: 83mm × 45mm × 32mm (8.3 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm)
Overall Closed: 83mm × 45mm × 32mm (8.3 × 4.5 × 3.2 cm)
Description
Left wing: Nativity with the Annunciation to the Shepherds in the background and the Annunciation in the foliage above the arch; Right wing: Mass of St. Gregory with the crucified Christ, the Virgin Mary and St. John the Evangelist in the foliage above the arch
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:
around left scene:
IHS. XRS FILI DI NASCITVR BETH IVDE [bottom]
AVG. ECCE INQVIT MARIA EGO TE FILIV GENERAVI [left]
SD VGINITATE MEA NON VIOLAVI [top]
REGNV TENVI V[IR]GINITAT[IS] ET REGEM GENVI...TATIS [castitatis] HEC ILLE [right - source: Augustine, De Annutiatione Dominca]
[around right scene:]
ATTEDITE ET VIDETE SI E DOL ME [bottom - source: Lam., 1:12]
BERNARD. SI VVLNERA CHRISTI AD MEMORIA REVOCETVR TVNC NIL EST [left - source: St Bonaventura, Regula Novitorum]
QD NON [POSSIT] EQO [ANI] MO TOLLER[ARI] [top - source: Guerriccus Abbas, Inter Oper Bernarid]
GREG. MEMORIA CRVCIFIXI VICIA CRVCIFIGIT B GREGORIVS [right]
[source: Met site]
around left scene:
IHS. XRS FILI DI NASCITVR BETH IVDE [bottom]
AVG. ECCE INQVIT MARIA EGO TE FILIV GENERAVI [left]
SD VGINITATE MEA NON VIOLAVI [top]
REGNV TENVI V[IR]GINITAT[IS] ET REGEM GENVI...TATIS [castitatis] HEC ILLE [right - source: Augustine, De Annutiatione Dominca]
[around right scene:]
ATTEDITE ET VIDETE SI E DOL ME [bottom - source: Lam., 1:12]
BERNARD. SI VVLNERA CHRISTI AD MEMORIA REVOCETVR TVNC NIL EST [left - source: St Bonaventura, Regula Novitorum]
QD NON [POSSIT] EQO [ANI] MO TOLLER[ARI] [top - source: Guerriccus Abbas, Inter Oper Bernarid]
GREG. MEMORIA CRVCIFIXI VICIA CRVCIFIGIT B GREGORIVS [right]
[source: Met site]
Published References
Ellis, Lisa and Suda, Sasha (Eds). (2016). Small Wonders: Gothic Boxwood Miniatures, exhibition catalogue, 5 November 2016 - 22 January 2017. Toronto, ON: Art Gallery of Ontario. [p. 56-57, 65, 98]
Émile Molinier. Collection Charles Mannheim: Objets d'Art. Paris, 1898. no. 24, p. 13, ill. unnumbered plate; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 46, pp. 69-70, pl. XXVII
Émile Molinier. Collection Charles Mannheim: Objets d'Art. Paris, 1898. no. 24, p. 13, ill. unnumbered plate; Williamson, G.C. Catalogue of the Collections of Jewels and Precious Works of Art: the property of J. Pierpont Morgan. London: Chiswick Press, 1910. no. 46, pp. 69-70, pl. XXVII
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 64
Provenance
Provenance
Queen Christina of Spain; M. Charles Mannheim, Paris; J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917)
Previous Owner(s)
Queen Christina of Spain
M. Charles Mannheim
J. Pierpont Morgan