St. Mary Magdalen

Object Name
Artist/Maker
Object Type
Date
1500-1525
Medium
boxwood
Credit Line
Location and collection unknown, formerly at Musée du Cinquantenaire, Brussels, Belgium
Object Number
V 355
Location
Not currently on display
Institution/Owner

Dimensions

Overall diameter: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)

Description

Upper scene: Noli me tangere; Lower scene: Christ in the House of Mary and Martha

Signature, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription
Carved Latin inscriptions:

Noli me tangere, nondum enim ascendi ad Patrem meum [John 20:17] [inner upper]

Martha autem satagebat circa frequens ministerium; quae stet et ait: Domine, non est tibi curae quod soror mea reliquit me solam ministrare [Luke 10:40] [inner lower]

Harci srptimo bene omnia fecit, Omnia dat dus non habet ergo min.[outer]

[source: Romanelli]

Published References

Joseph Destrée, Noix de chapelet (Bulletin des Musées Royaux d’art et d’histoire, Jan 1930, 20—23), figs. 10-11; Kurt Dingelstedt, “Betnuss” Reallexikon zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte I Edited by Otto Schmitt (Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 1948) p 373; Ad Jansen, Art Chrétien jusqu’à la fin du moyen âge (Brussels, Musee Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, 1964) p 61, plate XCIII

Catalogue Raisonné

Romanelli 38

Provenance

Provenance
Bequeathed by G. Vermeersch, Brussels, 1911
Previous Owner(s)
G. Vermeersch

Subjects

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