8699.
Small Bag, silk and linen thread, embroidered in quadrangular pattern. German, 15th century. 3½ inches square.
Very like the one under No. 8313. It may have been used as a reliquary, or, what is more probable, for carrying the rosary-beads of some lady. Concerning the form of prayer itself, see the “Church of our Fathers,” t. iii. p. 320.