An incomplete copper alloy late medieval purse frame, dating AD 1450-1550. A Ward Perkins Type A2, the frame consists of a curved bar, which is L-shaped in profile with a broken loop at one end and hole at the other (top flat side) for attaching it to a bar. On the front of the bar is an inscription in incised linear decoration, inlaid with niello: INV [...] tECV(M).
Length: 52.0mm, width: 8.50mm, thickness: 2.40mm, weight: 6.85g.
This is from the AVE MARIA prayer, commonly found on purse bars. Unsually the 't' is lower case, rather than upper (M.Jones pers. comm.)
Cf. Ward Perkins (1975: 165), Type A2; Saunders (2012: 107) no.171, Williams (2018: 3, fig. 6), as well as similar examples on this database: KENT-82209A, SUR-D64E26
An incomplete copper alloy late medieval purse frame, dating AD 1450-1550. A Ward Perkins Type A2, the frame consists of a curved bar, which is L-shaped in profile with a broken loop at one end and hole at the other (top flat side) for attaching it to a bar. On the front of the bar is an inscription in incised linear decoration, inlaid with niello: INV [...] tECV(M).
Length: 52.0mm, width: 8.50mm, thickness: 2.40mm, weight: 6.85g.
This is from the AVE MARIA prayer, commonly found on purse bars. Unsually the 't' is lower case, rather than upper (M.Jones pers. comm.)
Cf. Ward Perkins (1975: 165), Type A2; Saunders (2012: 107) no.171, Williams (2018: 3, fig. 6), as well as similar examples on this database: KENT-82209A, SUR-D64E26
Thanks to Malcolm Jones for his comments which have now been incorporated above.
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Copper alloy
Primary material of object
Incomplete
8.5
Width
52.
Length
2.4
Thickness
6.85
Weight
By Attribution 3.0
The period from for the object
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1450
1550
Classification of object
The surface treatment of the object