this is a wee bit retrograde: if I didn't already assume this principle
behind the thing I would not be soliciting for empirical examples... what I
am looking for is further examples (if they exist) involving books of
hours. They are potentially the best places because, as Nancy Sinatra so
nearly put it , these books are made for writing and there's a chance of the
record being still attached to the artefact. Moreover if you get a
certificate as part of the deal, the chances are you are looking at some
sort of mass transport system(if you'll pardon another not altogether
unintended pun!).
Forgive me. There is a serious point in there somewhere.
Regards,
John A.W. Lock
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Subject: Re: books of hours and reliquaries
> Dear John,
> Pilgrims, particularly to the Holy Land, were regularly entrusted
> with many rings to be taken for similar "sanctification" by contact
> with relics and holy places. This is an extension of the principal
> on which "contact relics" were created, i.e. objects, often pieces of
> fabric, which had come in contact with a relic and thereby acquired
> some of its thaumaturgical value.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
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