Virgin and Child with Kneeling Nun
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Seated Virgin and Child with kneeling nun holding a rosary
Seated Virgin and Child with kneeling nun holding a rosary
Upper half: Adoration of the Magi
Lower half: Pietà with St James the Greater and St Ursula; figures of male and female donors kneeling at either side. On the table on which they kneel are two paired shields of arms.
source: British Museum website
Paternoster: Mass of St Gregory (upper), Virgin of the Apocalypse (lower), Ten Ave Beads, Crucifix, and Finger Ring. All the beads have faceted exteriors
Top row of outer roundels on paternoster: Circumcision; Confession; angel musicians
Middle row of outer roundels: arms of England; Cleansing of Naaman (2 scenes); resurrected figures
Bottom row of outer roundels: Trajan and widow; Almsgiving; Christ and woman taken in adultery; baptism; resurrected figures
bead I: St. Matthew and Habakkuk: Last Judgement; Judgement of Solomon
Upper scene: Holy Kinship: Virgin and Child with saints Anne, Cleophas and Salome; Lower scene: St. Christopher carrying the Christ Child across the water guided by a hermit holding a lantern
Paternoster, Ten Apostle Ave Beads, Crucifix, and Finger Ring
Paternoster: exterior - Gothic tracery;
Interior upper: Celestial Jerusalem with Christ presiding over Last Judgement with St. Matthew on left, Job on right;
Interior lower: Cleansing of Naaman with St. Jude seated by River Jordan
Bead B: members of church; Good Samaritan?
Bead C: Baptism of Christ; Pentecost
Bead D: Last Judgement; Judgement of Solomon
Bead E: Ascension; Transfiguration; murder of Amos by Amaziah, priest of Bethel
Upper scene: Crucifixion with the Swoon of the Virgin and the Vera Icon; lower scene: Carrying of the Cross with St. Veronica
Upper scene: Noli me tangere; Lower scene: Christ in the House of Mary and Martha
Upper scene: Christ in the house of Mary and Martha with the 12 Apostles in the background; Lower scene: Noli Me Tangere with the Three Maries in the right background
Pietà with saints John the Evangelist and Mary Magdalene
Upper scene: Virgin and Child enthroned; Lower scene: kneeling monk holds banderole with his name; St. Bruno, identified by his coat of arms, who was the founder of the Carthusian Order that François Du Puy belonged to, stands behind him