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 49
mothers. It is hardly necessary tosay that there is no truth in these oldbeliefs. No toad carries a jewel in his head,and the so-called toadstone, which is of adrab colour and of a convex polishedsurface, is really the palatal tooth of afossil fish called Lepidotus. common inthe oolitic and wealden… … Fig. 13. Kings under Slit Gloves.After the picture of Judith with the Head ofHolofemes , by Cranach the elder. suggested imagination of the IMiddle Ages throughPlinys mention of a stone called Batra-chites, a name probably given because the colour suggested that of a toad.Through one of the strange…
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