Archive.org has the two volume set of Inventaires de Jean duc de Berry (1401-1416), edited and annotated by Jules Guiffrey (1894) (in modern French) Volume 1...
... http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=catalogue&iSaleNo=17771 ... What the brief description didn't mention...
Just a few reminders from your list moderator :) [Paternosters] is an e-mail list for people interested in historical rosaries, paternosters, and other prayer...
I spent today working on two paternosters that were commissioned. One is for my son's friend who wanted one with skulls and his wedding ring (his wife died and...
My interest in prayer beads is an offshoot from reading about monastic sign 'language' used at the Brigittine abbey of Syon. So this is a completely new area...
Hi. I've been experimenting with making paternosters and have a problem with tying of the ends of the cords so was wondering how other people deal with this. ...
I've been making prayer beads with tied wire. I assume this would be a precursor to the modern linked rosaries. Basically they are handmade links. Anyone have...
I've found that fisherman's knots work. The tricksy part is that fisherman's knots don't lie as flat as overhand knots. You have to fuss with fisherman's...
A friend found a vintage chaplet with 12 sets of three beads and a cross. Does anyone know what it is/was used for? The St. Anthony chaplet has 13 sets of 3...
So I think I've gotten all my materials together, and I'm about to try my first paternoster. (I've never done anything remotely like this, so please bear with...
A week or so ago some one was looking for a "Crusade" rosary. I knew I had seen the painting of the Hospitallers sitting with an in-line string of beads and...
Hello all, I am considering making a later 16th century rosary* (probably in the modern Y shaped configuration, but possibly just a circle) I've made a couple...
boy this is funny -- I just bought a keychain with the "crusaders" cross on it to use on a paternoster. you all have givin me a bunch of info that I was going...
Greetings! ... Some background, because I'm chatty today.... The Jerusalem Cross - also known by many other names, such as "Four Corners Cross" and "Crusader's...
For rosaries I'm using in the SCA, I knot before and after each gaud bead. That way, there's enough room for loosely strung beads between the knots to move,...
In searching for the painting of St. Jerome that was mentioned, I found some other paintings with beads, which I have posted in the group's links section. I...
I've been issued a challenge by a friend of mine to recreate (as best as I can) a Crusader's paternoster. My google-fu is failing miserably, and I was...
http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe? DATABASE=foto2&LANGUAGE=0©TEXT=©RIGHT=&442753=on Try this instead. Sorry. -Rowan Finally Gabriel gave...
You can go here: http://www.stmaryscity.org/VirtualExhbit/toleration.htm and see one that was discovered in the excavations of St. Mary's City, MD. Enjoy! ...
a ring on one end of an early paternoster? http://www.kikirpa.be/www2/cgi-bin/wwwopac.exe? DATABASE=obj2&LANGUAGE=0&OPAC_URL=&%250=10116080&LIMIT=50 It should...
Just a note to say that a major upgrade to the Paternoster-Row website is on its way! I spent part of this past weekend working on it with my web guru, and am...
Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Frank Zappa To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering...
http://www.melfisher.com/treasuresales/store/scripts/prodList.asp? idCategory=81 Or you could go shopping for your own! Have fun! Rowan I praise you for your...
Good People - There is a full page picture of an excavated rosary in the June 1976 issue of National Geographic, page 806. It has red coral beads, gold gauds...
This clipped from another list. Perhaps some might be interested? ... I will be out of touch until around Friday or so of next week, Field work on the...
I just received a fantastic book in the mail that I haven't seen discussed on here. It is an catalog from an exhibition in Salzburg in 2008 of prayer beads -...
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