A lapidary is a text in verse or prose, often a whole book, that describes the physical properties and metaphysical virtues of precious and semi-precious...

stones'. In French, and later English, the term is also used for a lapidary text, which was a treatise on precious stones that details their appearance...

Lapidary (text) a treatise on gemology, especially when pre-modern Old English Lapidary Lapidary Point, a headland on King George Island Lapidary style,...

Lapidary style is prose that is appropriate for memorials, mausoleums, stelae, and other commemorations in which words are "etched in stone"; it is concise...

factories in Russia. Founded by Peter the Great in 1721 as the Peterhof Lapidary Works, to make hardstone carvings, since 1945 the factory manufactures...

approximately middle 6th century BCE to early 3rd century BCE. This lapidary text combines nine trisyllabic phrases describing the stages of breath circulation...

Tranquebar Dictionary. Freeman, Rich (February 1998), "Rubies and Coral: The Lapidary Crafting of Language in Kerala", The Journal of Asian Studies, 57 (1):...

(Italian: [ˈpjɛːtra ˈduːra]), pietre dure ([ˈpjɛːtre ˈduːre]) or intarsia lapidary (see below), called parchin kari or parchinkari (Persian: پرچین کاری) in...

impurities usually make it a colorful mineral and the stone has ornamental and lapidary uses. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in the...

Lapidary medicine is a pseudoscientific concept based on the belief that gemstones have healing properties. The source of the idea of lapidary medicine...

stone to protect his men from devils, according to Aristotle, from whose lapidary Qazwini often quotes, nullifies the influence of magicians and devils and...

another witness to the c-text and appears to be independent of c2, and so is useful as a further cross-check on the c-text. The m-text depends largely on manuscripts...

there were many variant forms of the letter A. First was the monumental or lapidary style, which was used when inscribing on stone or other more permanent...

two main styles, the "lapidary" form, usually inscribed on hard surfaces like stone monuments, and a cursive form whose lapidary form tended to be more...

architecture, geography and medicine as in Agni Purana, perfumery and lapidary arts in Garuda Purana, painting, sculpture and other arts in Vishnudharmottara...

) employed in record-making and partly from their availability. Thus, lapidaries, engravers, and copyists made the most of the available writing space...

book on healing donkeys, a guide for interpreting dreams, a discussion of lapidary stones for use in astrology, a work on geomancy, and a volume of love charms...

more recently by Malcolm Godden and Peter Clemoes for the Early English Text Society.) The Latin preface to the first series enumerates some of Ælfric's...

variety of green colors. Western Canada is the principal source of modern lapidary nephrite. Nephrite jade was used mostly in pre-1800 China as well as in...

The Wonders of the East (or Marvels of the East) is an Old English prose text from around AD 1000. It is accompanied by many illustrations in the two manuscripts...

1017/S0017816000028856.. Freeman, Rich (February 1998). "Rubies and Coral: The Lapidary Crafting of Language in Kerala". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (1)....

testing and making jewellery from them. Several other Sanskrit texts on gems and lapidary are also credited to Agastya in the Indian traditions. Other mentions...

inscriptions. Both identifications have been studied against Caesar's lapidary remarks about the Gaulish Jupiter and Gaulish Dis Pater. The equation of...

Classical Lapidary Tradition". Annals of Science. 58 (4). p. 371. doi:10.1080/000337900110041371. PMID 11724065. "Revelation 20:21 – Greek Text Analysis"...

2006 – via galleries.com. "Mineral hardness and hardness scales". Inland Lapidary. Archived from the original on 17 October 2008 – via inlandlapidary.com...

good polish and is often used in jewelry as beads or cabochons and other lapidary work such as eggs, spheres and animal carvings. It is also referred to...

documents found on this site to have been engraved with a poetic text. This third century text evokes the memory of a deceased young woman. Despite the clumsiness...

Maraqten identifies three different aleph traditions in East Arabian coins: a lapidary Aramaic form that realizes it as a combination of a V-shape and a straight...

The Lapidary Museum is a lapidarium-museum in Avignon, France. It has housed the classical Greek, Etruscan, Roman and Gallo-Roman sculptures and objects...

Levy’s monograph, Siegel und Gemmen, both of which appeared in 1869. No lapidary Hebrew or Canaanite inscription antedating the sixth century (reign of...