LL-L: "Help needed" LOWLANDS-L, 27.FEB.2000 (03) [E]

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From: Pat Reynolds [pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk]
Subject: LL-L: "Help needed" LOWLANDS-L, 26.FEB.2000 (07) [E]

In message <38B87E6E.EE690CC7 at yahoo.com>, Lowlands-L Administrator
<sassisch at yahoo.com> writes
>I have a copy of a 13th/14th c. cloak-pin.  It has an inscription or
>motto on each side.  The church-Latin inscription on one side is
>very obvious [IHESVS NAZARENVS REX IVDEORVM] , but the other, in
>Mediaeval French, defeats me:
>
>AMI AMET DELI PENCET
>
This is very similar to a ring-brooch in the collection of the Museum of
London (catalogued in _Treasures and Trinkets_, no 110.  The inscription
there is "Ami amet' - and is translated as 'love your loved one'.  The
longer inscription might be 'love your loved one when you think of this'
(Might be, my medieval french is v. poor).  (cf inscriptions meaning 'I
am here in the place of the one you love').  Given the religious
inscription on the outside, the inner inscription is ambiguous: the AMI
could be Jesus, or an earthly lover.

Best wishes to all,
--
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)

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