Depictions of rosaries and paternosters are really too numerous to count (at least for the level of focus preferred for these linkspages). This linkspage focuses on extant examples.

For additional contextualization, I have added contemporary descriptions of paternosters and “pairs of beads” (as they were called in medieval England) amongst the links below, rather than my usual tendency to provide only a few texts dropped into inset paragraphs.

See also Paternoster Row: Historical Rosaries & Paternosters, Historical Paternosters and Rosaries, Prayer Bead Production and use in Medieval England, and these links.

Regarding the abbreviations used below:
BSE: Wills and inventories from the registers of the commissary of Bury St. Edmunds and the Archdeacon of Sudbury
LR = Calendar of the plea and memoranda rolls of the city of London
NCW = North Country Wills
TE = Testamenta eboracensia (Wills registered at York)

• Rosary with bone beads, from a reliquary-coffer, c. 1251-1300
• Jet rosary beads from a hoard of coins and jewelry buried c. 1300 at Canonbie in Dumfriesshire
• Item do lego domino Thomæ de Bouthum j. par de bedes de corall, ij pecias argenti, j. anulum vertuosum.
  Will of Thomas de Hoton, 1351 (TE)
• “one pair of coral beads with an agnus dei, 23s 4d; another pair of red coral, 6s 8d; one pair of amber, 5s; one pair of beads, 2s”
  LR A33 (Inventory of the goods and chattels of Richard Toky), 1391
• Unes patenostres d’or où a cinquante deux frezettes, huit perles d’Escosse et ung saphir; et ausidctes patenostres pend une croix neellée de fleurs de lys d’or, et est la croix que mons. saint Loys portoit sur luy.
  Item, unes autres patenostres d’or, toutes plaines, contenant cinquante petites patenostres et cinque seignaulx, en ung laz azuré.
  Unes patenostres, qui furent Madame Marie de France, de quarente perles grosses et huit seignaulx d’or, à manière de cagectes, ausquelles pend ung fermillet où sont deux perles, deux dyamans et ung balay.
  Item, unes patenostres, qui furent à ladicte dame Marie, où à l’un bout pend ung lys d’or garny de perles; pesant deux onces quinze estellins.
  Item, unes autres patenostres de perles, qui furent Madame Marie, où sont soixante perles, quatre ballaiz, quatre saphir, set, au bout, une grosse perle.
  Item, unes autres patenostres à M M, qui furent à ladicte dame; pesans deux onces.
  Item, unes autres patenostres d’or, qui furent à ladicte dame, plaines d’ambre, à ung bouton de perles; pesant troys onces.
  Item, unes patenostres d’or, signées à ensaignes de tabliers et eschicquiers.
  Item, unes patenostres d’or à seignaulx de perles, à ung fermillet d’or, qui furent Madam Ysabel.
  Item, quarente patenostres plaines de muglias.
  Item, unes patenostres esmaillées, pendans à une croix, où il y a pierres et perles.
  Item, unes patenostres d’or, et y a une croisète d’or où il a ung cueur, pierres et perles, et ung fermail d’or à dyamans et à grosses perles.
  Item,unes patenostres de gest à seignaulx d’or et de perles, pendans à ung femrail; et a deux rubiz.
  Item, unes patenostres de perles à seignaulx de gest, où il pend ung fermail à façon de roze, où il a troys ballaiz, ung saphir et six perles.
  Item, unes très petites patenostres de corail à signaiz de perles et petites coquilles d’or.
  Item, deux patenostres, les unes d’ambre blanc à roses, et les autres de geaist noir.
  Item, deux paires de patenostres d’or garnyes d’ambre, qui contiennent chascune [?] patenostres d’or; pesans ung marc troys onces d’or.
  Item, unes patenostres d’or, à tournelles et à petiz rondeaulx azurez esmailles de blanc; pesans troys onces cinq estellins.
  Item, unes autres patenostres de gest noir, où sont unze croizettes d’or, et y pent ung camahieu, et pendent à ung petit fermillet d’argent.
  Item, unes autres patenostres de Damas, plaines de muglias, ou a soixante ung boutons d’or et ung petit bouton de perles; pesans troys onces.
  Item, unes patenostres de gest, où sont cinq frezettes, et y pend ung bouton de perles, blanc.
  Item, unes patenostres de Damas et entredeux patenostres d’ambre noires et quatorze perles parmy, à une petite loznage garnye de perles, et y pent une croix de cuirvre; peasant deux onces quinze estellins.
  Item, uns petites patenostres d’argent, rondes, contenant cinquante et cinq; pesant douze estellins obole.
  Item, unes petites patenostres de gest, à cinq boutons de Damas, et sont d’or, plains de muglyas, et a au bout d’un lacet ung petit bouton de perles.
  Item, unes petites patenostres d’anneletz d’or, eng un tissu de soye et petites frezettes; pesant dix estellins d’or.
  Item, unes très petites patenostres d’ambre, à une perle.
  Item, unes patenostres d’or de boutons de Damas, contenant LXXV; pesans deux onces cinq estellins.
  Item, unes patenostres de cinquante deux boutons d’or, pendant à ung laz vermeil; pesant une once cinq estellins.
  Item, unes menues patenostres, moutié de corail et moutié d’argent doré.
  Item, unes patenostres de courail, contenant cinquante pieces et unze seignaux d’or rons, et y pent une croisette de corail et ung crucifix d’or ou mylieu.
  Item, unes autres patenostres d’ambre, contenant cinquante pièces, sans les seignaulx, et sont les seignaulx carrez, à lyonceaux d’ambre blanc.
  Item,ung gros bouton de patenostres, à façon de l’euvre de Damas, à plusieurs carres; pesant six estellins.
  Item, unes patenostres de corail contenant cinquante pièces, à cinq seignaulx d’or rons, tous plains.
  Item, unes patenostres d’ambre jaune.
  Item, unes grans patenostres de jayet noir.
  Inventaire du Mobilier de Charles V, Roi de France, c. 1380
• Item lego domino Briano de Stapleton unum par bedes del’aumbre.
  Will of Robert de Roos, 1392 (TE)
• Of smal coral aboute hir arm she bar
  A peire of bedes, gauded al with grene,
  An theron heng a brooch of gold ful sheene,
  On which ther was first write a crowned A,
  And after Amor vincit omnia.
  The Canterbury Tales (General Prologue, Description of the Prioress), c. 1380-1400. For additional analysis on the Prioress’ pair of beads, and comparison with artifacts found in England, see Chaucer and Clothing: Clerical and Academic Costume in the General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
• Articles that were in the shop of Adam Ledyard, jeweller, of London, December 8, 1381:
  One forcer, value 6d., with divers jewels in the same contained; – namely, 4 sets of paternostres of white amber, value 2s.; 16 sets of paternostres of amber, 20s.; 5 sets of paternostres, namely, 4 of coral, and one of geet, 10s.; 6 sets of aves of geet, and paternostres of silver gilt, of another pattern, 38s.; 14 sets of aves of blue glass, with paternostres silver gilt, 3s. 4d.; 28 sets of paternostres of geet, 3s. 4d.; 15 sets of paternostres of mazer, and 5 of white bone, for children, 5s.; 20 necklaces of silver gilt, 5s.; 46 rings of silver gilt, 10s.; 14 necklaces of geet, the tongues of silver, 3s. 4d.; and 2 crucifixes of silver gilt, 3s.
  From Memorials of London and London Life in the XIIIth, XIVth, and XVth Centuries
• “4 pairs of jet beads with the gaudees silvergilt and one furmaille silvergilt, 26s 8d”
  LR A33 (Robert Durham’s bill of complaint against Thomas Adam), 1393
• Item lego Matildæ uxori ejus ac meæ sorori duos annulos aureos, unum cum lapide rubio, et alterum cum uno pierle indentatum, ec eciam unum par de precum de nigro get, de majoribus.
  Will of Margaret de Knaresburgh, 1397 (TE)
• A peire of bedis eke she ber
  Upon a las, all of whit thred,
  On which that she hir bedes bed.
  The Romaunt of the Rose
• Item lego predictæ Elizabethæ unum par de bedis de auro.
  Item lego Margaretæ Shreton unum par de bedis de lambr’.
  Will of Margaret Plays, 1400 (TE)
• Item lego uxori Johannis predicti unum par de bedis de gete et corall, cum anulis et monilibus argenteis eisdem annexis.
  Will of Thomas de Malton, 1400 (TE)
• Item lego Dominæ de Rose j anulum cum j ruby et un par bedis de corall.
  Will of Isabella Persay, 1400 (TE)
• Item lego Elyzabeth, filiæ meæ, unum par de bedes de auro, & unum bonum owche.
  Will of Richard Burgh, 1407 (TE)
• Item lego Aliciæ de Wylton unam par precum de gete, cum cruce argenti deaurata.
  , Will of Agnes Kelynghale, 1414 (TE)
• Item lego Isabellæ, uxori filii mei predicti, … unum par precum de gete, cum gaudiis de querell’, et ex utraque parte gaudii est unum bede de querell et unum annulum cum saphiro …
  … Item Waltero unum par de bedes de byrell cum gaudiis deauratis, et j Agnus Dei, super quo est ymago Sanctæ Annæ, et interius unum billet.
  … Item Dominæ meæ Marschall’ unum par de bedes cathenatum de auro et curello.
  … Item Matildæ Strangwyss j par parvum de pedes de querell, cum gaudiis de auro, et unam tabella mcum ymagine beatæ Mariæ.
  Will of Isabella de Wyleby, 1415 (TE)
• “One pair of beads (precum) of coral with a knoppe of pearl, gauded with paternostres silvergilt”
  LR A45 (regarding actions by Paul Miliany, David Galganetti, and Roger Amergi against Nicholas de Monio), 1416
• It Alic Watton j. par peu de aumb.
  Will of Agnes Stubbard de Bury, 1418 (BSE)
• Isabellæ, matri meæ … j par precum de geet.
  Will of Thomas Grenewood, 1421 (TE)
• Leupolt (c. 1425), a paternoster-maker in the Mendel Hausbuch
• Item, lego sorori mee, uxori ejus, par precum de corallo cum gaudys de auro, et optimum anulum meum.
  Will of Robert Fitzhugh, Bishop of London, proved 1435-1436 (NCW)
• Hans Paternostrer (1435), a paternoster-maker in the Mendel Hausbuch
• Also, I owe hym for … a peyr of bedys of corall
  Will of Richard Edy, alias Fermer, 1438 (Norfolk Archaeology)
• Paternoster pendant with the Virgin and Child and the meeting of Joachim and Anna at the Golden Gate, c. 1440-1450
• Johanni Yngelby unum par precum de argento cum gaudeis deauratis. Isabelle Thwate unum par precum de corallo cum gaudeis de auro.
  The will of Agnes Stapilton, widow, 1448 (NCW)
• Item I bequeth to William Dedik a peir of awbur bedis.
  Will of Margaret la Zouch, 1449 (TE)
• Item to Sir William More a peir of bedis of coralle w^t a ringe.
  Will of Sir Giles Daubeney, 1444 (TE)
• Hawisiæ filiæ predicti Conani Aske, filiolæ meæ, unum par precum cum gaudiis de peryll cum uno knop de peryll.
  Will of Hawisia Aske, proved 1450 (TE)
• De j pare precum de corall, cont. l., cum ij. bruches et j Agnus Dei, xvj d.
  Inventory of Thomas Vicars of Strensall, 1451 (TE)
• Item I bequeth to y^e saide Sir William Caleys j. par bedis of laumbyr lacyd, with mony hyngeris knopped of rede silk.
  Will of Sir John Scrope, proved 1454 (TE)
• Also j. payr bedis of corall gawditt with golde with j. rouwnde broch of golde at the same bedis, and ij. othir brochis of golde, ane with stonys, ane othir with hangeris of perle.
  Will of Elizabeth de la Ryver, 1454 (TE)
• x peyr bedys of lambur
  ij peyr bedys of get
  a peyr of get langets w^t viii gawdyes of sylv’ ov’gylt with a ryng of sylv’ y^t were Agnes Daglynworth
  a peyr bedys coral w^th a xi gawdys of sylv’ of the gyft of Will^m Throm
  … a peyre of bedys of lambure of ye bequeste of Jonet Bakyn
  From “An Inventorie of all ye ornaments of Seynt Mary Chapel,” c. 1460 (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society)
• Itm I beqwethe to my lord Abbot of Bury a good purs and vi s. ad viij d. ther in, and for a tokne of remembraunce my bedys of white ambyr with the ring of syluir and ovir gilt longyng therto …
  Itm to Davn John Colchestre a peyre of smale bedys of jeet, the patnost of syluyr and ovyr gilt.
  Itm I bequethe to Davn John Ratlysden a peyre bedys of ambyr with a ryng of syluir.
  Itm to Davn John Harlowe and Davn John Attylburgh, eche of hem, a peyre bedys of ambyr …
  Itm to eche yoman of houshold viij d. and a peyre bedys of ambyr and jet. And to eche grome and page vj d. and peyre bedys of mystill …
  Also in leche wyse I will that euery preest that be at my solempne exequies haue a peyre bedys with a litel purs and ther in iiij d. freris …
  Itm to my lady Walgrave … a litil peyre of bedys of silvir of x. and with a knoppe of gold with ple …
  Itm I yeve and beqwethe to the seid Dame Margarete a peyre of bedys with paternris of gold, and on eche syde of the patnris a bede of coral, and the Aue Maryes of colour aftir marbil with a knoppe, other wyse callyd a tufft, of blak sylke, and ther in a litil nowche of gold, with a smal perle and stoonys, be sekyng the seid Dame Margarete to prey for me, and that she will vowchesaf if hire doughtir leve longere, than she to have the said bedys aftir hire dissees …
  Itm to Richard Fest of Bury my beedys of jeet, with iij. patnris of crystal, and a rng with a stoon hangyng on the lace, for rememberaunce of old good felashipp …
  Itm to Davn Thomas Framnyngh^am a peyre bedys of ambyr.
  Itm to Davn John Attilburgh a pere bedys of ambyr …
  Itm to Jankyn Smyth my grene bedys with patnris of silvir and ovir gilt with ij. smale ij. corallys bedys by …
  Itm to Maister John Pike a peyre bedys of ambir with a ryng of gold wretyn and innamelyd, for a tookne.
  Itm to Davn Thomas Croftys a peyre bedys of ambyr …
  Itm to John Croftys, w^t my Lord of Bury, my bedys of calsydony …
  Itm j be qwethe to maist John Nichole, pson of Martyn Fornh^a, a peyre bedys of jeet with a ryng of laton and gilt with a stoon and a reed lace with a knoppe of the same …
  I ordeyne and make John Clopton esqwyer and executour, to whiche Clopton I beqwethe xls. and a peyre bedys of silvir w^t x. avees and ij. patnris of sylvir and gilt, and a gowune cloth of blak ageyn my intirment. It j beqwethe to my executours T. Drury, T. Heigh^am, M.W. Qweyth, A. Newhawe, and John Coote jentilman, to eche of hem xxxiij s. iiij d. and eche of hem a peyre of bedys of sylvir w^t x. avees an dij. patnris of sylvir and gilt, lyche to the tothir, and a gowune clothe of blak to eche of hem.
  Will of John Baret of Bury, 1463 (BSE). See also Rosaries, Paternosters and Devotion to the Virgin in the Households of John Baret of Bury St. Edmunds in Parergon Vol. 24, No. 2.
• Item, my master gaff here a peyr of bedes for a gentylwomannes nekke gawdeid with viij. gawdeid of goolde and viij. perles.
  The Paston Letters, “What stoffe my master Sir John Howard hath delyverd to my Lady his wyfe in this monyth of Jenever,” 1467
• De vj s. viij d. superius oneratis de pret. j paris precum de corall, cum Agnus Dei annexo, legat. Marg. Pigote. De xx d. de pret. j paris precularum de corall cum duplicibus gaudes, legat. Elizabethæ Babyngton. De xx d. de pret. alterius paris precularum de corall legat. Aliciæ Copildyke. De xx d. de alio pari precularum de corall legat. Elizabethæ Clarevaux. De xx d. de alio pari de gagate, cum annulo dependente, legat Isabellæ Vavasour.
  Inventory of Elizabeth, widow of William Sywardby, 1468 (TE)
• Johanni Coppandale j par precum magnum argenti et deaurati.
  Will of Henry Holme, 1471 (TE)
• Lego Henrico Holme, filio meo, optimam togam nuper mariti mei, … j par precularum de awmbre, j par precularum argenti et deaurat’
  Will of Dionisia Holme, widow, 1471 (TE)
• Domino Thomæ Helton … j par precum de mystynden
  Will of John Pykeryng, 1471 (TE)
• Fratri Thomæ Burton hospitalis S. Leonardi, unum par precum de aumber.
  Will of John Shirwod, 1472-1473 (TE)
• Paternoster made in Germany c. 1475-1500; “the small wooden beads are divided into groups of five by larger marker beads or by silver beads in the form of the instruments of Christ’s Passion. It is thought that the smaller beaads each represent an Ave Maria prayer, and the large ones a Pater Noster.”
• Item, I bequethe to Marie Tendalle, my goddoughter, my peir bedys of calcidenys gaudied with silver and gilt.
  Will of Margaret Paston, 1482, in The Paston Letters
• Also, I bequeth to the Anker of y^e Whyght Fryers in Norwych, j peyer bedys of mestylden gauded w^t Calsedonys, & xij^d. in mony.
  Will of John Dyghton, 1483 (Norfolk Archaeology)
• To the wife of the same Robert Grene, a litill cross of goolde hanrysed with siluer, a small paire of bedis of corall, with gaudees of silver and gilt, and my smale goold ringes. To Agnes Browne, doughter to the said Robertes wife, a paire of bedis of calsodonye with gaudees of silver and gilt.
  The will of Henry Huddleston, 1489 (NCW)
• Also I bequethe to Anneys my doughter … a peyre bedys of jeete, gaudied w^t corall, pater nosters sylu and gilt
  Will of Will^am Honyboorn, dyer, 1493 (BSE)
• Rosary with wooden beads, 15th-16th century
• Paternoster in wood, coral, silver, and crystal, c. 1401-1600
• The Langdale Rosary, c. 1500; enamelled gold, wiht “50 oval ‘Ave’ beads, 6 lozenge-shaped ‘Paternoster’ beads and a large rounded knop.”
• Rosary with ten ivory beads alternating between male and female heads, a large openwork architectural bead with the Betrayal of Christ, and a crucifix pendant; garnets between each bead; beads joined with wire; made in Belgium c. 1500
• Enameled copper beads from a rosary, early 16th century
• Rosary bead with God in His glory and the Judgement Day, beginning of the 16th century
• A payr bedys w^t iij Golde ryngys of ambr rede & whyte ij of the Golde rynge ameled
  A p bedis of geete w^t xj gaudes of sylver x stonys of sylver Corall
  a p blakezete bedys w^t a ryng of silver
  iij p of ambur bedys corse an owche of Silver and Gylte bokulwyse
  Wycombe Inventories, 1502
• Itm I bequeth to Kateryn Cook … my corall bedys, the byggest …
  Itm I bequeth to Elizabeth Jeage my goddoughtr, a payr bedys of corall of thryse sexty …
  Itm I bequeth to ou^r Lady of Walsyngh^am my corall bedys of thrys fyfty, and my maryeng ryng, w^t all thyngys hangyng theron …
  Itm I bequeth to my lord abbott of Bury Saint Edmund my grete bedys of whytght ambyr.
  Will of Anne Barett, widow, 1504 (BSE)
• A rosary made in the 16th century, from the Bergbau und Gotikmuseum in Leogang (Salzburg)
• Rosary in enameled gold with agate, first quarter of the 16th century
Boxwood Beads
• Boxwood rosary bead with the Adoration of the Magi and a Pietà with St. James the Greater and St. Ursula, c. 1480-1530
• Boxwood rosary bead with St. Hubert adoring the stag and the enthronement of an archbishop, c. 1490-1530
• Boxwood rosary bead with St. Jerome and St. Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1500
• Boxwood rosary bead with Old Testament and New Testament scenes, c. 1500-1530 (also here)
• Boxwood rosary bead with the Virgin fainting at the Crucifixion, and St. Jerome praying before the crucifix; c. 1510-1514
• Paternoster bead with the life and martyrdom of St. James the Greater, c. 1510-1520
• The Chatsworth paternoster
• Boxwood rosary bead with the Madonna and Child and three other saints, 16th century
• Three boxwood rosary-beads (another view) from the first quarter of the 16th century
• Boxwood rosary bead with scenes from the life of St. Jerome, from the workshop of Adam Dirksz, c. 1510-1520
• Rosary bead with St. Andrew, Saint Barbara, and Saint Catherine, 16th century
• Prayer bead with two scenes from the Passion of Christ, carved from boxwood by Adam Dirksz, c. 1515
• Rosary bead carved by Adam Dirksz in the 16th century
• Item a p Corall bedys w^t xl stonys of Silver & gylte & ryng of silver sold to John Bitt
  Item a p to payer of blak bedys w^t xxj stonys of silv’ & one Ryng too Rynge of Silv’ [the Rynge wher sold
  Item a p of bedys Rede ambr w^t one peny of silv’ upon them [they lakketh the peny
  Item an othir p bedys of yolowe ambr w^t gaudes of Jasp stonys & Castellon
  Item a p of bedys ambr & glasse w^t a ryng iij Rynge of Sylv’ [the Rynge wher sold
  A p of blacke gettys bedys & anothyr of ambur … Item a payer of Ambur bedys w^t vij stonys of sylver …
  Item a payer of beddys of blake gete wt ij rynge of sylffer [the Rynge wher sold
  Wycombe Inventories, 1518-1519
Ivory Beads
• Ivory paternoster bead with Christ's head and a death's head, 16th century
• Two rosary beads, 16th century
• Ivory rosary bead with memento mori, c. 1525-1550
• Ivory rosary made in France c. 1525-1550; “The beads are carved with figures of the Virgin Mary and St John the Evangelist, the joined heads of a man, woman and Death, and images of the Pope, kings and figures in aristocratic dress.”
• Jet rosary bead with St. James the Greater, c. 1520-1650
• To my doughter Elizabethe, Countesse of Worcester, to pray for my soule, a paire of bedys of golde with tenne gawdies.
  Will of Lady Lucy Browne, widow, 1531 (NCW)
• Itm I bequith to Wyllm Fyrmyn, my son … on payre whyte amber bede of fyfty pr nr sylver and gylte wyth the gawdes …
  Itm I bequeth to Elyzabeth Doon, my dowghter … one payre bedys corall thrise fyfty gawdes sylver and gylte
  Will of Alyce Harvy, 1538 (BSE)
• To M^rs Jane Brewes my lardgest payre of beades …
  To Mysters Emlyn Badbye my payre of beades of blacke jette gawded with beades of sylver and gilt with awmber abowte the gardes …
  To his doughter Elizabeth Ryther my payre of beades of sylver gawdyd wih golde …
  Will of Margaret Ryther, widow, 1539-1540 (NCW)
• Also I give to my doughter Margaret, my sone Godfreys wyfe, a kyrtell of blacke velvet and a paire of beydes of fyne [?] with a grene tassell which were my wyffes.
  Will of Sir Godfrey Foljambe of Walton Hall, 1540-1541 (NCW)
• Rosaries found on the Mary Rose (1545): 81A1414, 81A2529 (detail), 81A4184, 82A4477, and another rosary
• A peyer of beads, with 14 crucifixes, weyng 10 oz. 3 qrs. …
  8 peyer of corall beads, with their gaudies and a crucifix, weyng 36 oz. …
  Ten peyer of corall beads, with their gaudies, weyng 20 oz. …
  4 peyer of beads all sylver, with the knoppes havyng the gaudies gylte, weyng 16 oz.; 10 corall beads, with two sylver gaudies
  An account of the Corpus Christi Shrine in York, 1546
• Beads from a rosary, Italy, early 16th century
• Paternoster with eleven beads and a silver cross, 16th century
• Paternoster with devotional medals, gilt and enameled silver, c. 1551-1650
• Stephan Pielmayr (1563), a paternoster-maker in the Mendel Hausbuch
• Rosary and prayerbook given to Mary, Queen of Scots c. 1568
• Paternoster with skulls, c. 1570-1590
• Rosary with copper ring and bronze cross, 16th-17th century
• Rosary with wood and silver beads, 16th/17th century