Franks bequest. Catalogue of the finger rings, early Christian, Byzantine, Teutonic, mediaeval and later (1912)
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Franks, Augustus Wollaston, Sir, 1826-1897, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · London : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 26
. The manner of wearing rings ^ is necessarilj restricted, but the fashions ofantiquity were for the most part preserved, and a few new customs were introduced. For customs in earlier times cf. F. H. Marshall, Catalogue, p. sxvi. INTI.:ODUCTION XXlll … The second finger, the dij^^i/z/s iiifmiiis of the Romans, remahied tlie least popular, tliough it was not altogether avoided ; for example, to take instances from three different periods, the effigy of King John in Worcester Cathedral shows a ring on the second finger of the right hand, St.…
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