BOXWOOD ROSARY BEAD, BRABANT, EARLY 16TH CENTURYAt 5.2cm diameter, this tiny carved depiction of no less than 7 scenes from the Christian Religion's Bible, was considerably lighter and more portable than the leather-bound versions of the book in the South Lowlands at the time and definitely easier to fit into a leather catapult to fire at the damned heads of heretics and heathens. This beadling, as it was termed, was enthusiastically taken up by minor parish officials and is the origin of their title 'Beadle', possibly
With thanks and plaudits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
It looks so small, it looks like a theme park for small people. Are you small? I bet you're small. Which is why you like this. It makes you feel big. Which you're not, you're small.
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