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hi Chris,
looks like you did a bit better on the inscriptions than i did.
thought you might like to see the .jpgs of the Louvre and V&A artifacts that i
was working from.
best,
c
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Received: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:38:35 PM EST
From: Chris Laning <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Re: [M-R] photo archive additions
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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> On Dec 10, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Christopher Crockett wrote:
>
> > that being said, here's my Best Shot:
> >
> > [..] = Illegible letter
> > [?] = Doubtful reading
> >
> > *Louvre Pomander1-Left: VES . DES : S. MARTIRS
> >
> > *Louvre Pomander1-Right: CI . SVNT . LV[?]ES . RELV[?]IQ
> >
> >
> > *Louvre Pomander2-Left: VES . DES : S. MARTIRS
> >
> > *Louvre Pomander2-Center:[..]C[?]S[?] . DES : [..][..][..] [..][..]
> > [..]TRAS
> >
> > Louvre Pomander2-Right: CI . SVNT . LV[?]ES . RELV[?]IQ
> >
> >
> > V & A Pomander2-Lower Left: EAV[?]SA : PATETIVSTA[..]ENS[?]
> >
> > V & A Pomander1-Upper Left: . SE . DANT. REGNAREGII
> >
> > V & A Pomander1-Upper Right: . DITEI[? . DECVS . ERIS .
> >
> > V & A Pomander1-Lower Right: . AM[?] . PAREM . TIBI . DONO .
> >
> >
> > some of my readings are quite confidently made, but if anyone her
> > can make
> > sense out of that stuff, i'd like to hear of it.
>
>
> Wow. The Louvre one definitely does sound like a reliquary, from those
> inscriptions. (Two instances of "RELV[?]Q", for one thing.)
>
> The V&A one is more cryptic. Fortunately I have a photocopy of the
> relevant pages from the V&A's _Medieval European Jewellery_ (the
> giant 1992 book I fervently wish I had bought when new -- $200+ then,
> now well over $1,000 used).
>
> This gives the inscription as:
>
> PRO . POMI . DORO . PARIS . AGE . PAREM . TIBI . DONO
>
> SENSV . DIVES . ERIS . SI ME . DITEI . DECVS . ERIS
>
> SE . DANT . REGNA . REGI . MICHE . SI FA[V]EAS TIBI . REGI
>
> EST MAGIS . ORE . VENUSTA . CAUSA . PATET . IVSTA VEN[ERIS]
>
> (I don't know why they didn't include the inscription on the web page
> for this.)
>
> Clearly quite secular, referring to the Judgement of Paris. Which
> might indicate that there may indeed have been different items
> (pomander and reliquary) using the same form. I would certainly have
> difficulty imagining a reliquary with an inscription like this.
>
> Interestingly, this particular example in the V&A is dated to the 14th
> century by A.H. Church (in 1886) on the basis of the lettering and
> ornament, and he(?) considers it Italian and the earliest known
> pomander. Considering how similar the forms of this one, the Louvre
> example and the V&A example dated 1610-1620 in the V&A are
(http://images.vam.ac.uk/item/O156619/pomander/
> ), this has me scratching my head and wondering a bit about dates and
> such.
>
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