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Liturgical Comb Fragment

Date:
1180–1220
Culture:
German
Medium:
Ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 3 5/8 x 4 in. (9.1 x 10.2 cm)
Classification:
Ivories
Credit Line:
Purchased jointly by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Cloisters Collection) and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux de France (Palais du Louvre), 1973
Accession Number:
1973.70

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  • Description

    Liturgical comb fragment depicting the Tree of Jesse. Tree grows from loins of Jesse, contains the Virgin and above, the Christ child with the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. Flanking the Virgin are the prophet Isaiah and Saint Fulbert, the twelfth century bishop of Chartres.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: (on Isaiah's scroll): EG/RE/DI/ET[UR]/VI[R]g/a/[D]E/[R]A[DICE]; et egredietur virga de radice Jesse, Biblia Sacra, Isaiah XII; trans. And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse... (on Fulbert's scroll): VI/R/GA/D[E]I/GE/NIT/RIX/V[IR]G/O[ES]T/FLOS/; Virga Dei genetrix virgo est flos filius eus; patr. lat. cxli. 345 (on the Virgin's scroll): ECCE/[AN]CILLA (on either side of the Christ child): Alpha and omega (along top of comb): SPS SCS; Spiritus Sanctus? (along bottom of comb): ISAIAH, JESSE, FULBERTS

  • Provenance

    [ Hôtel Drouot , Paris (November 22, 1972)] ; [ Hôtel Drouot ]

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