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[338] Deloche, “Le port des anneaux dans l’antiquité romaine, et dans
les premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1896, pp. 96–98; Mémoires de
l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxv, pt. 2.
[339] Naturalis Historia, lib. xxxiii, cap. 24.
[340] John Yonge Akerman, “An Account of Excavations in an Anglo-Saxon
Burial Ground at Harnham Hill Near Salisbury,” in Archæologia, vol.
xxxv, p. 266, and Plate XII (opp. p. 278).
[341] “The Sarum Missal done into English by A. Harford Pearson,”
London, 1844, p. 552. The directions and blessings are translated from
the Latin; the vows of the bride and bridegroom are from an old English
version.
[342] O. M. Dalton, “Byzantine Art and Archæology,” Oxford, 1911, p.
544, fig. 329.
[343] _Ibid._, p. 546.
[344] Marshall, “Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and
Roman, in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum,” London,
1907, pp. 99, 100; No. 579, pl. xvii.
[345] Federici Augusti Junii, “De annulo Romanorum sponsalitio,” Lipsiæ
(1744), pp. xiii, xiv; citing Pliny’s “Hist. Nat.,” lib. xxxiii, cap.
i, and Clement’s “Pædogogus,” lib. iii, cap. xi.
[346] Tertulliani, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, Parisiis, 1879, vol. i,
col. 353. Apol. adv. gen.
[347] August. Epist. 119 ad Januar. cap. 18.
[348] C. Drury Fortnum, “On Finger Rings of the Early Christian
Period,” in Journal of Archæology, vol. xxviii, pp. 266–292; figured on
p. 291.
[349] Fredegari, “Historia Francorum epitomata,” cap. xviii; in
Patrologia Latina, ed. J. P. Migne, Parisiis, 1879, vol. lxxi, col. 584.
[350] Hucher, “Sigillographie du Maine,” _Bulletin Monumental_,
vol. xviii, p. 308.
[351] Symeonis Thessalonicensis Archiepiscopi, “Opera Omnia,” in
Migne’s Patrologia Græca, vol. clv, Paris, 1866, cols. 505, 508, “De
honesto et legitimo conjugio.”
[352] Coloniæ, 1509, cap. 11.
[353] Communicated by Mrs. Isabel F. Hapgood.
[354] Petri Mülleri, “De annulo pronubo,” Jenæ, 1734, p. 22.
[355] Petri Mülleri, “De annulo pronubo,” Jenæ, 1734, p. 31.
[356] Cyril Davenport, “Jewellery,” Chicago, 1908, p. 114.
[357] Cap. 55.
[358] “Glossarium ad scriptores mediæ et infimæ Latinitatis,” Parisiis,
1733, vol. i, col. 457.
[359] Cited in H. R. D. Anders, “Shakespeare’s Books,” Berlin, 1904, p.
189.
[360] Deloche, “Le port des bagues dans l’antiquité romaine et dans les
premiers siècles du moyen âge,” Paris, 1896, pp. 61–63; from Mémoires
de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, vol. xxxv.
[361] Jacob Grimm, “Deutsche Rechtsalterhümer,” Berlin, 1854, pp. 177,
178.
[362] This recalls Juvenal’s “digito pignus fortasse dedisti” (perhaps
thou hast set a pledge on a finger). Sat. vi, 27.
[363] Fairholt, “Rambles of an Artist,” London, n.d., p. 90, fig. 97.
[364] _Ibid._, p. 124, fig. 124.
[365] Communicated by L. Weininger, of Vienna.
[366] _Anima magis est ubi amat quam ubi animat._
[367] Barbier de Montault, “Un anneau du XVe siècle,” Tours, 1876.
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