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 227
among the ignorant, but among the educated classes.The three discs of wax in Table-Case A (fig. 146) engraved withpentagrams and other geometrical figures, as well as the names ofvarious spirits, are of interest as having belonged to the celebratedDr. Dee (a.d. 1527-1608), the mathematician and… … Fig. 147.—Amulets of the seventeenth centuiy. That on the left,which is of silver, is for the conjoint influence of Venus and the Moon. which are in the collection, were put under the legs of the table,and the larger one upon the top of it. The table was then drapedwith a silk cloth, and the stone…
British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography · Art objects · Art, Medieval
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