medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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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