Images of Medieval Art and Architecture

The Treasure of Saint Denis

Votive Plaque of Saint-Denis


Images


Adapted from Félibien, Plate IV, Item Q


Texts

Description

Plaque of gilded silver on which Saint-Denis is represented with these words engraved Vota mea reddam tibi Domine. And underneath, Jacobus Sobieski gravi morbo liberatus interpellatione S. Dionysii, testimonium hujus beneficii hic deposuit an. 1610. This inscription tells that in 1610,Jacobus Sobieski put this image in the Treasury as an acknowledgement to Saint-Denis, for the intercession through which he was cured of a serious disease.

Félibien, pages 543. Translated by Jane Vadnal.


Subsequent History


Bibliography

Félibien, page 543.


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Created by J Vadnal, July, 1998