1 Jean de la Taille de Bondaroy, “Le Blason de la Marguerite,” Paris, 1574.
2 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” lib. i, cap. 25, Lug. Bat., 1636, pp. 87, 91.
3 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” lib. i, cap. 26, Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 103.
4 Mackey, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,” London, n. d., p. 144.
5 Nicols, “Faithful Lapidary,” London, 1659, pp. 32, 33.
6 Görres, “Die christliche Mystik,” Regensburg, 1840, vol. iii, pp. 190 sqq.
7 Virna Sheard, “The Jewelled Princess,” in Canadian Magazine.
8 De Mély, “Les lapidaires de l’antiquité et du moyen-âge,” vol. ii, “Les lapidaires grecs,” Paris, 1898, pp. 1-50.
9 Lucas, “The Swallowing Stones by Seals,” Science, N. S., vol. xx, No. 512, pp. 537, 538; Report of Fur Seal Investigation, vol. iii, p. 68.
10 Hoernes, “Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst,” Wien, 1898, p. 108.
11 Giglioli, “Materiale per lo studio della ‘Età della Pietra,’” Archivio per l’Antropologia e l’Etnologia, vol. xxxi, p. 83, Firenze, 1901.
12 Rose, “Handleiding tot de Kennis van diamanten,” etc., Amsterdam, 1891, p. 110.
13 “Della storia naturale delle Gemme,” Napoli, 1730, Vol. I, pp. 131-137.
14 Il., xxiv, 795, 796.
15 Paper by Dr. Paul Ferez in the Revue de l’Hypnotisme, Paris, No. 10, April, 1906, p. 306.
16 Erasmi, “Colloquia,” Lipsiæ, 1713, pp. 597-8. Suggested by Pliny, lib. xxxvii, cap. 71-73.
17 Morris Jastrow, “Die Religion Babyloniens und Assyriens,” vol. i, Giessen, 1905, p. 374.
18 Morris Jastrow, l. c., p. 462.
19 Delitzsch, “Assyrisches Wörterbuch,” Leipzig, 1896, p. 604.
20 “Aegyptische Goldschmiedearbeit,” ed. by Heinrich Schäffer, Berlin, 1910, pp. 25-32; necklace figured on Pl. V, other objects on Pls. V-VII.
21 Ibid., p. 14, Pl. II, figs. 3a, 3b.
22 See Reisner, “Catalogue générale des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire: Amulets” Le Caire, 1907.
23 Pitra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, vol. iii, p. 393.
24 Kropatschek, “De amuletorum apud antiquos usu,” Gryphiæ, 1907, p. 24 (Paris papyrus, 2630).
25 Surindro Mohun Tagore, “Mani Málá,” Pt. II, Calcutta, 1881, p. 943.
26 Seler, “Codex Borgia: Eine altmexicanische Bilderschrift,” Berlin, 1904, vol. i, p. 16.
27 Francisci Ruei, “De gemmis,” Tiguri, 1566, f. 4.
28 “Histoire critique des pratiques superstitieuses; par un prêtre de l’Oratoire,” Paris, 1702, p. 320.
29 Blum, “Das altjüdische Zauberwesen,” Strassburg, 1898, p. 91.
30 A projection serving to fasten down the belt.
31 Compleat Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. Skeat, Oxford, 1894 vol. i, p. 139.
32 Matthæi Paris, “Historia major,” London, 1684, p. 318.
33 “Le Grand Lapidaire” of Jean de Mandeville, Vienna, 1862, pp. 126-128.
34 Güdermann, “Das jüdische Unterrichtswesen,” Wien, 1873, p. 225.
35 “Ethics of the Dust,” New York, 1886, p. 96.
36 See also the writer’s pamphlet: “The Folk-Lore of Precious Stones,” Chicago, 1894; a paper read before the Folk-Lore Congress held at the World’s Columbian Exhibition, and describing the Kunz Collection exhibited in the Anthropological Building there. This collection is now in the Field Museum, Chicago.
37 King’s version in his “Natural History of Precious Stones,” London, 1865, p. 392.
38 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 10.
39 Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. 22.
40 Albertus Magnus, “Le Grand Albert des secretz des vertus des Herbes, Pierres et Bestes. Et aultre livre des Merveilles du Monde, d’aulcuns effetz causez daulcunes bestes,” Turin, Bernard du mont du Chat (c. 1515). Liv. ii, fol. 8 recto.
41 Cardani, “De subtilitate,” Basileæ, 1560, p. 460.
42 Cardani, “De gemmis,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 323.
43 Valentini, “Museum museorum oder die vollständige Schau-Bühne,” Franckfurt am Mayn, 1714, vol. ii, pt. 3, p. 34; figure of air-ship on p. 35.
44 Hoernes, “Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst,” Vienna, 1898, p. 376. Figured in S. Muller’s “Ordn. af Danm. Olds.,” i, Pl. XV, Figs. 252 sq.
45 Ovidii, “Metamorphoses,” lib. ii, 11. 340 sqq. Some have proposed to read Redanus instead of Eridanus and have seen in the former name the designation of a stream flowing into the Vistula.
46 Plinii, “Naturalis Historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 7.
47 Bk. xviii, 11, 295-298, trans. of William Cullen Bryant.
48 Du Chaillu, “The Viking Age,” New York, 1889, vol. ii, p. 314. (Figs. 1210, 1211, 1212.)
49 Sendelii, “Electrologiæ,” Elbingæ, 1725, Pt. I, p. 12, note.
50 Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. 22.
51 Johannis de Cuba, “Hortus Sanitatis,” [Strassburg, 1483] tractatus de lapibus, cap. vii.
52 Belleau, “Œuvres poétiques,” ed. Marty-Laveaux, Paris, 1878, vol. ii, pp. 172 sqq. The poem in which this tale occurs is the “Amours et nouveaux eschanges des pierres précieuses,” written in 1576 and dedicated to Henri III.
53 Rose, “Aristotles de lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo,” in Zeitschr. für D. Alt., New Series, vol. vi, p. 431.
54 Konrad von Megenberg, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 436.
55 Pitra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, vol. iii, p. 325.
56 Kropatschek, “De amuletorum apud antiquos usu,” Gryphiæ, 1907, p. 16.
57 Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam lectu digna,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 323. “De gemmis.”
58 Rumphius, “Amboinsche Rariteitkamer,” Amsterdam, 1741, p. 308.
59 Goethe Westösterlicher Divan I, Segenspfänder.
60 “Lapidario del Rey D. Alfonso X,” codice original, Madrid, 1881, fol. 77, p. 49.
61 Hendley, “Indian Jewellery,” London, 1909, p. 158.
62 Arakel, “Livre d’histoire,” chap. liii; transl. in Brosset, “Collection d’historiens arméniens,” St. Pétersburg, 1874, vol. i, pp. 544, 545.
63 Josephi Gonelli, “Thesaurus philosophicus, seu de gemmis,” Neapoli, 1702, p. 112.
64 “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 230.
65 Agatharcides, “De Mare Erythræo,” §2. The topaz of the ancients was unquestionably the gem commonly called chrysolite at present (olivine, peridot).
66 Diodorus Siculus, lib. iii, cap. 38.
67 Plinii, “Naturalis Historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 32.
68 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 16.
69 Volmar, Steinbuch, ed. by Hans Lambel, Heilbronn, 1877, p. 22.
70 Alberti Magni, “Opera Omnia,” ed. Borgnet, Parisiis, 1890, vol. v, p. 43. De mineralibus, lib. ii, tract. 2.
71 Bauer, “Edelsteinkunde,” Leipzig, 1909, p. 750.
72 Albertus Magnus, “Le Grand Albert des secretz des vertus des Herbes, Pierres et Bestes. Et aultre livre des Merveilles du Monde, d’aulcuns effetz causez daulcunes bestes,” Turin, Bernard du mont du Chat (c. 1515). Liv. ii, fol. 9 recto.
73 Bellucci, “Il feticismo primitivo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 22-25.
74 “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, f. 8.
75 St. Hildegardæ, “Opera Omnia,” in Pat. Lat. ed Migne, vol. cxcvii, col. 1254.
76 “De gemmis,” Tiguri, 1566, f. 52.
77 “Philosophi opera quædam lectu digna,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 322. “De gemmis.”
78 Anonymous writer in Ital. MS. of the fourteenth century in the author’s library; fol. 41 p. verso.
80 Finot, “Les lapidaires indiens,” Paris, 1896, p. 9.
81 Finot, “Les lapidaires indiens,” Paris, 1896, p. 8.
82 Finot, l. c., p. 9.
83 Konrad von Megenberg, “Buch der Natur,” ed. by Dr. Franz Pfeiffer, Stuttgart, 1861, p. 433.
84 New edition of the Babylonian Talmud, ed. and trans. by Michael L. Rodkinson, vol. v (xiii), Baba Batra, New York, 1902, p. 207.
85 Ratzel, “Völkerkunde,” Leipzig, 1885, vol. i, p. 36.
86 Dr. Julius Ruska, “Das Steinbuch aus der Kosmographie des al-Kazwini,” Beilage zum Jahresbericht 1894-5 der Oberrealschule Heidelberg, p. 35. See Aristoteles De Lapidibus und Arnoldus Saxo, ed. Rose, Z.f.D.A. New Series VI, pp. 364, 365, 389, 390. The “other writer” is probably Ahmed Teifashi.
87 The work on precious stones attributed to Aristotle was composed in Arabic probably in the ninth century.
88 Teifashi, “Fior di pensieri sulle pietre preziose,” Firenzi, 1818, p. 13.
89 Proc. of the Royal Irish Academy, 2d Ser., Polite Literature and Antiquities, vol. ii, Dublin, 1879-1888, p. 303.
90 Epiphanii, “De XII gemmis,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 5.
91 Morales, “De las piedras preciosas,” Valladolid, 1604, fol. 101.
92 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 48; Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. xliii.
93 Fol. 55 recto of Ital. MS., 14th Century. Reference is to Bela IV (1235-1270). Lo reo dilugaria bela loqale in di nostri tempi regna.
94 Weil, “Biblische Legenden,” p. 225.
95 Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 328. “De gemmis.”
96 Albertus Magnus, “Le Grand Albert des secrets des vertus des Herbes, Pierres et Bestes. Et aultre livre des Merveilles du Monde, d’aulcuns effetz causez daulcunes bestes,” Turin, Bernard du mont du Chat (c. 1515). Liv. ii, fol. 11.
97 “Naturalis historia,” lib. xxxvii, cap. 60.
98 George H. Pepper, “The Exploration of a Burial-room in Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico,” Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909, p. 239; Fig. 5.
99 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 38.
100 Cardani, “Philosophi opera quædam,” Basileæ, 1585, p. 323. “De gemmis.”
101 S. Hildegardæ, Opera omnia; in. Pat. Lat. ed. J. P. Migne, vol. cxcvii, Parisiis, 1855, col. 1251.
102 Cardani, “De subtilitate,” Basileæ, 1560, pp. 442-3.
103 Chalfante, “Early Chinese Writing,” Mem. of Carnegie Museum, vol. iv, No. 1, Pittsburg, 1906, p. 10 and Pl. XX, No. 275. See also Pl. X, No. 132; pei, “shell,” “value,” as shells were used as money in very ancient times.
104 Chalfante, “Early Chinese Writing,” Pl. XXII, No. 299.
105 “Catalogue of the Woodward Collection of Jades and other Hard Stones,” by John Getz, Privately printed (New York), 1913, p. 11, No. 24.
106 Zelia Nuttall, “The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilization,” Cambridge, Mass., 1901, p. 195. Archæological and Ethnographical Papers of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, vol. ii.
107 The Bishop Collection. “Investigations and Studies in Jade,” New York, privately printed, 1906, vol. i, pt. iii, “Jade as a Mineral,” by George Frederick Kunz, p. 117. Nos. 421 and 646 of the collection are excellent examples of this special jade.
108 The Bishop Collection. “Investigations and Studies in Jade,” New York, 1906, vol. i, p. 12. Privately printed and edition limited to 100 copies. For a description of this monumental work see “The Printed Catalogue of the Heber R. Bishop Collection of Jade,” by George Frederick Kunz, supplement to the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for May, 1906, Occasional Notes, No. 1.
109 See Fischer, “Ueber die Nephritindustrie der Maoris in Neuseeland,” Archiv für Anthropologie, vol. xv, Braunschweig, 1884, pp. 463-466.
110 King’s version in his Natural History of Precious Stones, London, 1865, p. 382.
111 Pitra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, p. 328.
112 Epiphanius, “De XII gemmis,” Tiguri, 1565, fols. 7, 8.
113 Birlinger, “Kleinere deutsche Sprachdenkmäler,” in Germania, vol. viii (1863), p. 302.
114 Bartolomæi Anglici “De proprietatibus rerum,” London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495, lib. xvi, cap. 51, De Jaspide. Old English version by John of Trevisa.
115 Hoernes, “Urgeschichte der bildenden Kunst,” Wien, 1898, pp. 22, 24.
116 Dupont, “L’homme pendant les âges de la pierre,” Brussels, 1872, pp. 156 sqq.
117 Pepper, “The Exploration of a Burial-room in Pueblo Bonito,” Putnam Anniversary Volume, New York, 1909, p. 237.
118 Ward, “Seal Cylinders of Western Asia,” Washington, D. C., 1910, p. 121; citing Jastrow, “Religion,” p. 303.
119 Albertus Magnus, “Le Grand Albert des secretz des vertus des Herbes, Pierres et Bestes. Et aultre livre des Merveilles du Monde, d’aulcuns effetz causez daulcunes bestes,” Turin, Bernard du mont du Chat (c. 1515). Liv. ii, fol. 11, recto.
120 The Timæus of Plato, ed. by R. R. Archer-Hind, London, 1888, p. 302, note.
121 Plinii, “Historia naturalis,” Venetiis, 1507, fol. 269 verso, lib. xxxvi, cap. 16.
122 Plinii, l. c., fol. 254, verso, lib. xxxiv, cap. 14.
123 King’s metrical version in his “Natural History of Gems,” London, 1865, p. 226.
124 John of Trevisa’s version (made in 1396) of Bartholomæus Anglicus’ “De proprietatibus rerum,” London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495, lib. xvi, cap. 43, De Magnete.
125 Bartolomæi Anglici, “De proprietatibus rerum,” l. c.
126 Lucian, Imag. I.
127 Klaproth, “Lettre à M. le Baron A. de Humboldt sur l’invention de la boussole,” Paris, 1834, p. 20.
128 From El Kazwini’s “Adjâïl el makluquat”; cited in marginal note, vol. i, pp. 310, 311, of El Damu’s “Hayat el hayauân,” Cairo, 1313 (1895).
129 Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” New York, 1890, p. 192.
130 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 51; Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. xxxviii.
131 Chiocci, “Museum Calceolarium,” Veronæ, 1622, p. 227.
132 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, p. 264, lib. ii, cap. 113.
133 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 51.
134 “Les secrets de la Lune,” Paris, 1571.
135 Cardani, “De subtilitate,” lib. vii, Basileæ, 1560, p. 464.
136 “Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico,” ed. by Frederick Webb Hodge; Smithsonian Inst.; Bur. Am. Ethn., Bull. 30; Washington, 1910, Pt. 2, p. 331.
137 Kunz, “Gems and Precious Stones of North America,” New York, 1890, pp. 299, 300.
138 Sancti Eusebii Hieronymi “Opera Omnia,” ed. Migne, vol. iv, Parisiis, 1865, col. 545.
139 Pfizmeier, “Beiträge zur Geschichte der Edelsteinen und des Goldes,” Sitzungsbericht d. phil. hist. Kl., Wien, vol. lviii, 1868, p. 200.
140 Pfizmeier, l. c., p. 201.
141 Garbe, “Die indische Mineralien; Naharari’s Râjanighantu, Varga XIII,” Leipzig, 1882, p. 70.
142 Epiplianii, “De XII gemmis,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 5.
143 Camilli Leonardi, “Speculum lapidum,” Venetia, 1502, fol. xxvi.
144 Pannier, “Les lapidaires français,” Paris, 1882, pp. 246, 264, 295. Cited in Schofield, “The Pearl,” Pub. of Mod. Lang. Asso. of Am., vol. xxiv, Pt. 4, p. 599.
145 Surindro Mohun Tagore, “Mani Málá,” Pt. I, Calcutta, 1879, p. 199.
146 “Le grand lapidaire de Jean de Mandeville,” from the ed. of 1561, ed. by J. S. del Sotto, Vienne, 1862, p. 8.
147 Taw Sein Ko, communication from his “Burmese Necromancy.”
148 Pitra, “Specilegium Solesmense,” Parisiis, 1855, vol. iii, p. 328.
149 Epiphanii, “De XII gemmis,” Tiguri, 1565, fol. 6.
150 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fols. 46, 47.
151 Bartolomæi Anglici, “De proprietatibus rerum,” London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495, lib. xvi, cap. 86, De Saphiro.
152 Old English for spider.
153 Bartolomæus Anglicus, l. c.
154 The subject of the origin, development and reform of the carat-weight has been fully treated by the author in the Trans. of the Soc. of Min. Engineers, 1913, pp. 1225-1245, “The New International Metric Diamond Carat of 200 milligrams.”
155 Marbodei, “De lapidibus,” Friburgi, 1531, fol. 50, note of Pictor Villengensis.
156 Bellucci, “Il feticismo primitivo in Italia,” Perugia, 1907, pp. 25, 26.
157 Volmar, “Steinbuch,” ed. by Hans Lambel, Heilbronn, 1877, p. 19.
158 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, pp. 266-268.
159 De Boot, “Gemmarum et lapidum historia,” Lug. Bat., 1636, pp. 169, 170.
160 De Boot, l. c., p. 270.
161 Hendley, “Indian Jewelry,” London, 1909, p. 158.