Paternoster Bead
Paternoster Bead, Flanders, Brabant (?), 16th century c. 1510-1520
1961.87
Not on display
Also known as prayer "nuts", objects like this were intended as the final and largest bead for a rosary, a device for counting a sequence of prayers. This bead-a masterpiece of miniature carving-depicts the life, trail, and martyrdom of St. James the Greater, to which the Latin inscriptions around the rim refers.
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