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Ampulla. The Medieval Souvenier.

Found this week in England and shared with me by a friend!

This beautiful lead ampulla which comes from a shrine where pilgrims could purchase a little holy water to take home with them. The raised motif on the front can still be seen.

Photo used with permission of the owner.

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Books incoming to my library

Behold these three great books I bought myself for Xmas!

The Ivories one was very, very expensive but worth every cent, both as a research book and as a beautiful book to read and look at. Absolutely gorgeous! The Illuminated manuscript facsimile is pretty nice, but it was much bigger than I thought it would be, so I need to check whether it's to scale or not. I'm loving it though. The Gilbertus was a big disappointment as I mistakenly thought it was the book itself, not someones notes on it. It's a slender volume and while it is very interesting, it really wasn't what I thought it would be.

I'll be doing some book reviews on these over the next few days.

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Not a tombstone

Since it's Spooky Season, I thought I'd share a little copper alloy strap end from my collection which looks like a little tombstone with a decorated top. I've got a number of these, but this is my favourite. These is decorative wrigglework but you need to look very carefully to see it, as it's really feint.

Here's the link to the Gilbert Collection to see more strapends! it really would have been spectacular new!