A Guide to the mediaeval room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room; (1907)
British Museum. Department 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 215
hing to kings, according to a common mediaeval custom, were not their pontifical but their personal rings : their episcopal rings were often buried with them as in the case of several bishops of Durham beginning with Kalph Flambard (1099-1128). The favourite stone for the pon- tifical ring was the… … FiG. 130. — Gimniel vim Fig. 129.— Fedc puzzle- 11 ng. sapphire was said to have the power of subduing desire, growing dim when worn by the unworthy : it was also the colour of the Virgin, and thought to be in peculiar sympathy with the heavens. The rings of the early bishops were of various…
Art objects · Art, Medieval
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