Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Particularly in England

1922. Contents: Magical Jewels and Gems in the Ancient World. The Earlier Christian Lapidaries. Lapidaries of Spain and the Nearer East. Western Mediaeval Lapidaries: Mediaeval Popular Lapidaries; Christian Symbolic Lapidaries; Mediaeval Scientific Lapidaries. Mediaeval Astrology: Lapidaries of Engraved Gems. Magical Jewels of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance: Lapidaries of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Magical Jewels of the Renaissance. The Age of Criticism: The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Illustrated.