Blakeslee collection, portraits in, showing ring wearing, 62 Bloodstone, 158, 191, 331 Bohemian garnet wings, 109 Boleyn, Anne, sends “cramp rings,” 343 Boniface IV, mention of pontifical ring in decree of, 267 Boniface VIII, ring found in tomb of, 273 magic ring of, 306 _Bonza_, Buddhist priest, rings made by, 82 Boog, Theodore de, xi “Book of Thetel,” magic ring described in, 311 Borde, Andrew, on cramp rings, 343 Borgia, Cesare, motto in poison-ring of, 37 Borgia, Lucrezia, rings at betrothal of, 215 Borgias, poison rings of the, 37 Borough, Sir Edward, wins diamond ring at tournament, 181 Bossuet, Jacques Béminge, memorial ring given him by Princess Henrietta Anne, 45 Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 192 Braddock, Charles S., Jr., ix Brandon, Thomas, Earl of Suffolk, wins ruby ring at tournament, 181 Brantôme, Pierre de Boudeilles, Seigneux de, 168 Branualdius, 300 Brass rings, 82, 84, 352 Brera gallery, Milan, 203 British Museum, x, 5, 35, 39, 40, 44, 50, 58, 68, 69, 75, 82, 86, 89, 98, 99, 100, 104, 136, 143, 150, 151, 173, 197, 251, 257, 293 Bronze age, rings of the, 2 Bronze rings, 58, 89, 109, 251, 257, 293 Broun, W. H., entire emerald ring, owned by, 103 Brouwer, Bart., entire diamond ring by, 105 Brummagem rings, 113, 114 Burgundian rings, 73 Burmese rings, 82 Butler, Samuel, 194, 222 Buxtorf, Johann, on Hebrew betrothal rings, 203 Byron, Lord, signet owned by, 152 Byzantine rings, 143, 144–146, 161, 197, 256, 338 C Cæsar, Julius, signet of, 130 Caius, St., ring of, 261 Caligula, head of, on ring, 133 Cambodian rings, 82 Camden, William, 183 Campbell, Archibald, ring of, 182 Cantacuzene, Emperor, 146 Canute, King, ring found on body of, 179 Caracalla, head of, on signet, 140 Cardinals’ rings, sapphire used for, 276 various stones used for in earlier times, 276 cost of, 277 of Cardinal Farley, 278 in portraits, 278 Carlomans’ signet ring, 140 Carlyle, Thomas, 324 Carnelian, 6, 125, 141, 158, 269, 318, 323, 328 entire rings of, 100 Casa Grande, Arizona, rings found at, 17 Casimir, John, Count Palatine, medal of, with figure of diamond ring, 171 Catharine von Bora, ring commemorating her marriage to Martin Luther, 216, 217 Cathoir the Great, called “Hero of Rings,” 191 Cat’s-eye, 78 “Celestial stones” in rings, 330 “Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles,” story of a ring in, 215 Cesnola collection of Cypriote antiquities, 119 Chalcedony, 74, 124, 158, 159, 334, 335, 363 entire rings of, 100, 258–261 Charioteer’s ring, 33 Charlemagne, ring of, 300–302 Charles the Bald, letter of, to Pope Nicholas I, 270