Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion
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Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion
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Prayer Bead with the Adoration of the Magi and the Crucifixion is a small south Netherlandish prayer nut, carved in fine-grained boxwood, dated c. 1500–1510. It is now in the collection of The Cloisters, New York. Originally the bead would have been part of a complete rosary set, and its size suggests its use as an Ave bead, where the supplicant would recite the "Hail Mary". Objects of this type were in great demand in the early sixteenth century. Apart from use in private veneration, they could
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Small south Netherlandish prayer nut
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_Bead_with_the_Adoration_of_the_Magi_and_the_Crucifixion
date created:
2016-04-09T16:30:11Z
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2024-09-08T02:57:44Z
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