Prayer bead with the Prayer of the Rosary and the Lamentation

One interior shows the Virgin and Child alongside a kneeling nun who holds a string of beads in her hand and is shown facing the saints.

The inside border of the medallion is inscribed with the words "O mater dei memento mei" (O Mother of God, remember me).

[3] It is lined with an inscription taken from Acts 7:59 which reads: d[omi]ne ih[s]u xr[ist]e accipe spi[rit]u[m] meu[m] (Lord Jesus Christ, receive my spirit [Acts 7:59]).

[3] Unusually for objects of this type, which are characterised by their approach to Horror vacui (fear of empty space), very little of the available border surface is used for inscriptions,[2] indeed the objects are not as detailed as most other extant boxwood prayer nuts, and have been described as "modest".

[3] The beads were gifted to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by J. Pierpont Morgan in 1917.