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 218
ingexisted from the middle of the thir-teenth century. The expense ofhaving the rings made was veryconsiderable ; thus in 1736 fourteensergeants gave away 1,409 rings,costing them each about <£55. Therings were usually plain hoops with-out bezels, engraved with mottoesrelating to the law. An… … Fig. 137.—Papal ring.
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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