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INDEX.
439
I.ABORDE. L.
Laborde, 40. Laet, De, 12. Lambeccius, 28. Languier, tongue-tree, 87. Lapidaria, 10. Lapis-lazuli, 293.
------engraved, 294.
------paste, 295.
Lasque-diamond, 22. Latrunculi, 353. Laurium, mines, 67. Leofric, 409. Leontoseres, 392. Lethsean stone, 380. Ligurius, 217.
ΧιθοκόΚλητα, 138 ; replaced by ena­mels, 370. Limoges enamels, 371. Liparsea, 394.
Loadstone used by thieves, 225. Lollia Paulina's jewels, 403. Louis d'Anjou, plate of, 84. Loupe, lupa, 133. Lucullus, ring of, 427. Lumaeella, 292. Lyehnites, 59. Lychnis, balais, 147. Lyneurium, 217. Lynx-tree, 331.
M.
Magi, their pretensions, 128. Malachito, 236. Manganese, 226. Manilius, 19. Mantuan vase, 263. Marbodus, 7.
Maria Honorii, 174.
Marbles, antique, 266.
Marburg shrine, 409.
Marcasite, 276.
Marlborough Gems, 142. 159. 199,
224, 245. Mary Tudor, seal of, 29. Mary, Q. of Scots, 56. Matidia, bust of, 159. Maximilian II., ring n(, 127.
OBSIDIAN.
Maximus the philosopher, 397. Mediaeval diamonds, 46.
------gem-engravers, 269.
Mercurius of Bernay, 81. Merovingian jewels, 52. Mexican carvings, 425. Milkstone, 380. Milliarensis, 74. Minium, 71.
Mirrors, metal and glass, 363. Missorium of Adolphus, 119. Mithridates, 62.
------vases of, 240.
Mogul diamond, 35. Mohammed Ben Mansur, 8. Moonstone, 91. Morio, Mormorio, 219. Murrhina, 237.
------value of, 241.
------Townley, 239.
Mys, chaser, 80.
M".
Naifes, diamonds, 30.
Narbonne, Gothic treasury, 321.
Nassack diamond, 414.
Nature-pictures, 17, 416.
Naxian emery, 246.
Nebrites, 395.
Nechepsos, 209.
Necklaces, famous, 107; antique, 404.
Nephrite, 424.
Nero, 162.
------vases of, 241.
------emerald of, 322, 427.
New Carthage, mines, 70. New Zealanders' jewels, 425. Nicander, 1 ; Theriaca of, 398. Nicolo, 255, 259. Niello, 75. Nile, basait, 123.
Nïzam's diamond", 36'. Nonius, opal of, 271. Nosa, toadstone, 125. Nuggets, origin of, 102.
O.
Obolus, 107. ' Obryza, 115. Obsidian weapons, 253.