medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Could it be a pomander?
Just a guess.
On 28-Jan-05, at 12:50 PM, Chris Laning wrote:
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> Not all the experts have weighed in yet on the mailing list I posted
> Christopher's question to, but the consensus so far is that the thing
> on the right is either a knife in a sheath, or one of those portable
> inkhorn + penner things that scribes carry.
>
> The hanging strap with "holes", in this concept, is some sort of
> reinforcing or stiffening strip on the left-hand edge of the object,
> and the "holes" are very likely to be decorative metal studs. The
> short horizontal strip near the top would be the top edge of the
> sheath (or narrow pouch) and the rounded thing seen above that line
> would be the end of the knife handle (or the rounded end of the
> pen-case). This makes sense to me.
>
> Everybody's baffled so far on the heart-shaped object. I didn't tell
> them any of the other guesses that have been made, and at least two
> people on the other list immediately said that it looks a lot like a
> fan except that it's much too small -- which was also my first
> thought.
>
> There's a larger detail of just this object posted here:
>
> http://www.christophersbookroom.com/cc/nazareth/bagatti/colfigs/
> bagatti-pl43-4-d.jpg
>
> Christopher (the original poster on the other mailing list) also
> commented:
>> in this view, the elements which make up the larger object can be
>> seen a
>> bit clearer --the cord by which it hangs extends down directly into
>> an inner
>> heart-shaped something-or-other, beyond which is a beaded border,
>> beyond which
>> is the outer border, which seems to have also been articulated in some
>> fashion.
>
>
>
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