Dear Colleagues
In a trawl for TASC through the bell christenings noted in a newly-published
volume, _Lincolnshire Bells and Bellfounders_, I have so far encountered
seven cases of an inscription transcribed as
SUM ROSA PULSATA MUNDI MARIA VOCATA
four of the variant
SUM ROSA PULSATA MUNDI C/KATERINA VOCATA
and one which is transcribed
CATERINA VOCATA SUM ROSA PULSATA MUNDI
What are we to make of these Catherine christenings? They range from c. 1400
to 1593 and appear on bells cast in London and Lincolnshire. This seems to
rule out workshop or temporal 'contamination' from the Marian examples,
which range in date from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries and
appear on bells made in London, York, etc.
Is 'Catherine Rose of the World' a Lincolnshire peculiarity? I haven't
spotted it elsewhere, but may have missed it. As it is, I'm pretty ignorant
generally about the Rosa Mundi eponym. I've drawn a blank from library
trawls and web searches (apart from an allusion on one of those wierd sites
to Rosa Mundi as a symbol of wisdom. Is _that_ the link with Catherine?)
I look forward to your comments, O Learned Ones.
Graham
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Dr Graham Jones
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University of Leicester
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