medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On Nov 7, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Madeleine Gray wrote:
> Trawling through early Glamorgan wills in the National Archive in
> London (and looking for something completely different - as you do
> - ) I came across a legacy to an image (I'm presuming it was a
> statue, though the Latin word is ymaginum and could also mean a
> painting) of the Virgin Mary described as being 'at the blessed Mary
> of Creke belonging to the abbey of Margam'. This is presumably Capel
> Mair on the Crugwyllt ridge above the abbey and in roughly the same
> relationship to Ffynnon Fair, Margam, as the Penrhys chapel was to
> the well there.
BTW, if anyone ever runs across bequests or inventory records of any
_beads_ and feels like passing them on, I'd love to have details. From
what I can find, any mention of "beads" without a qualifier in English
before 1600 is at least 95% likely to be rosary/paternoster beads.
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O Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]> - Davis, California
+ http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com
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