Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1490-1525
Medium
boxwood, copper alloy case
Credit Line
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Object Number
A.535&A-1910
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner
External Link
Dimensions
Overall Open: 47.7mm × 94.2mm (4.8 × 9.4 cm)
Overall Closed: 50.6mm × 50.1mm (5.1 × 5 cm)
Overall Closed: 50.6mm × 50.1mm (5.1 × 5 cm)
Description
upper: St Jerome as a cardinal, St. Jerome and the lion and in the background merchants. lower: St Jerome in the wilderness kneeling before a crucifix, in front of him his lion and behind him his cardinal's robes. In the background a castle amid trees.
source: V&A website
Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings
Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions around scenes:
VICIT . LEO . DE . TRIBV . IVDA [Behold the lion of the tribe of Juda: Revelations 5:5] + LEO . RVGIET . QVIS . NON . TIMEBIT amos 3 [The lion has roared, who will not fear? Amos 3:8 - inner upper]
GLORIA . PATRI . ET . FILIO . ET . SPRITVI . SANCTO . SICVT . ERAT . I[N] . PRINCIPIO+ [Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. source: preparation of the Ordinary of the Mass -inner lower]
O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI . DOMINE IHESU CRISTE ACCIPE SPI[RIT]U[S] MEUM [Remember me, O mother of God. Receive my spirit, Jesus Christ. - outer upper]
[source:Williamson 2002]
VICIT . LEO . DE . TRIBV . IVDA [Behold the lion of the tribe of Juda: Revelations 5:5] + LEO . RVGIET . QVIS . NON . TIMEBIT amos 3 [The lion has roared, who will not fear? Amos 3:8 - inner upper]
GLORIA . PATRI . ET . FILIO . ET . SPRITVI . SANCTO . SICVT . ERAT . I[N] . PRINCIPIO+ [Glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. source: preparation of the Ordinary of the Mass -inner lower]
O MATER DEI MEMENTO MEI . DOMINE IHESU CRISTE ACCIPE SPI[RIT]U[S] MEUM [Remember me, O mother of God. Receive my spirit, Jesus Christ. - outer upper]
[source:Williamson 2002]
Published References
'Salting Bequest (A. 70 to A. 1029-1910) / Murray Bequest (A. 1030 to A. 1096-1910)'. In: List of Works of Art Acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum (Department of Architecture and Sculpture). London: Printed under the Authority of his Majesty's Stationery Office, by Eyre and Spottiswoode, Limited, East Harding Street, EC, p.87; Frits Scholten and Reindert Falkenburg, A Sense of Heaven: 16th-century Boxwood Carvings for Private Devotion (Leeds: Henry Moore Institute, 1999, p 14 – cat. 6; Paul Williamson. Netherlandish Sculpture 1450-1550. London, 2002. pp. 144-5, ill., cat.no. 47;
Catalogue Raisonné
Romanelli 42
Provenance
Provenance
Bourgeois frères Collection, Cologne. Sold 1904, lot 1103
Previous Owner(s)
Bourgeois Frères Collection