Paternoster, 'Museum of London' (1400)

Suitable for mid and lower status portrayals for the period 1395 - 1430.

All of our prayer beads are based on extant originals and/or visual examples. This group patterned after a string of 27 round, wooden rosary beads in the collection of the Museum of London. (MoL accession number 5079, found at Worship Street, Finsbury in 1890).  A similarly configured string of lapis lazuli beads dated 1395-1401 forms part of the Salzburg Cathedral museum collection; More paternosters of the same style are carried by Pierre Salmon in Pierre Salmon, Dialogues. BNF ms. fr. 23279, fol. 5 (1409) and Geneva ms. 165, fol. 7 (1412)

• Style #1 - Black wood beads, red wood gauds, black horn knop bead. Red cord/tassel
  Style #2 - Medium brown wood beads and gaud, horn knop bead. Black cord/tassel
  Style #3 - Dark brown beads, gauds and knop bead. Red cord/tassel
  Style #4 - Dark brown beads and gauds. Horn knop bead. Red cord/tassel

Paternoster comes with storage bag and information about religion and the use of prayer beads in medieval Europe. Sheet also contains the Pater Noster and Ave Maria prayers in Latin. 

For more general information on our prayer beads, please see the main section page as well as General Information

PLEASE NOTE: These are individually hand made by Gwen. As with all handmade items there may be slight variations due to the nature of the materials used.