gems, early lapidaries, early gemology, early mineralogy, English lapidaries

Sinkankas: A study of a lapidary identified as Bodleian Library MS Eng. misc. e. 558, with introductory remarks on Old and Middle English in general, the manuscript, its language, etc. Treats 37 stones, including gemstones, and is claimed to be “a rather close translation of the Second Anglo-Norman Prose Lapidary” of Studer & Evans, Anglo-Norman Lapidaries (1925), pp. 111–136, which see.