A catalog of the antiquities and works of art, exhibited at Ironmongers' Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861 (1869)
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, French, George Russell, 1803-1881, London (England). Ironmongers' Company · [S.l. : s.n.] · leaf 197
diers, possibly as a company number. The word nunicriis, usedfor cohors, appears in Tacitus and other authors. It seems to have signified strictly the muster-roll, whence the phrases, rcferrc in numcros,—distribuere in numeros. In Rome these are calledlegionary rings, as indicative of the legion to… … served in the celebration of the marriage ceremony, beingplaced on the fingers of the couple at a particular partof the service. They have all the same sentence engravedon them in Hebrew characters,—MAZUL • TOUB, Godbe zvith you; or. Good luck to you,—and they are variouslyornamented with tracery…
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