A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 214

An illustration from A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations, 1907, leaf 214 — Fig. 129.—Fede puzzle- Fig. 130.—Gimmel ring, ring. sapphire was said to have the power of subduing desire, growingdim when worn by the unworthy: it was also the colour of theVirgin, and thought to be in peculiar sympathy with the heavens.The rings of the early bishops were of various materials and…

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