Finger-Ring Lore

Everything a Victorian antiquary could gather about rings: betrothal and mourning, poison rings and papal rings, the superstitions attached to every stone, and the rings dug from the presumed site of Troy.

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My Wife

Pledge Happy A Wedded Life Yon Cœur : Sans Peur.

X. Remarkable Rings

3 pages

Rings from the Earliest Period

34 pages

Nvs Amoris

ABES PROTEROS VGIAE Roman 'memorial' gift-rings. adopted for classic rings when used as memorial gifts. The first is inscribed, - You have…

Inxpo No

ME Anglo-Saxon ring, found near Bosington. a male head, round which is inscribed 'NOMEN EHLLA FID IN XPO,'-my name is Ella; my faith is in…

Tège Helldovicuni. Imperatorem

From the reign of Hugh Capet each King had his particular seal-ring. St. Louis had for device a ring interlaced with a garland of lilies…

Ring Superstitions

57 pages

Zara Za I Deze Vel

Outside DEBAL·6V T.6VTTANI Inside Talismanic ring 'The talismanic character of these mysterious words seems to be sufficiently proved by…

Salv Sre

Galen mentions a green jasper amulet belonging to the Egyptian King Nechepsus, who lived 630 years before the Christian era. It was cut in…

Secular Investiture by the Ring

12 pages

Rings in Connection with Ecclesiastical Usages

THE ring has, for many ages, formed a part of ecclesiastical insignia. It appears to have had a twofold purpose and signification, the one…

Rings in Ecclesiastical Usages

35 pages

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Qvi Se Poet Garder Des Mavxdisans

(on a gold ring found on Flodden Field, in the possession of George Allen, Esq., of Darlington, 1785).

Ornamental Rings

69 ff Rings with Precious Stones, according to their kind. APPENDIX. 70 gg Rings set with enamels, paste, or other ornaments…

Rings from the Earliest Period (Use of signet-rings as symbols)

THE use of signet-rings as symbols of great respect and authority is mentioned in several parts of the Holy Scriptures, from…

Remarkable Rings (Some remarkable rings)

of some remarkable rings in the Queen's and other collections. By the kindness of the editor of the Journal I am enabled to give…

Mariov

Inscription on a supposed religious ring, found at Carlisle. 'The annexed engraving represents a ring found, about 1790, in…

Inxpo No

ME Anglo-Saxon ring, found near Bosington. a male head, round which is inscribed 'NOMEN EHLLA FID IN XPO,'-my name is Ella; my…

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