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I don’t know about Gerathises… but note that adamant (diamond) and magnets are often confused, orthographically and otherwise, in the Anglo-Norman lapidaries. (Paul Studer and Joan Evans)

Great topic.

TGD

 

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https://bibliography.arc-humanities.org/medieval-encyclopedias-bestiaries-lapidaries-and-herbals/

… is a wonderful resource.

See also bibliog in David C. Lindberg, Science in the Middle Ages

TGD

 

 

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Greetings all, 

I wonder if anyone can direct me to good medieval primary or secondary sources on Lapidaries? A student is interested in doing a project on them, and her resources are limited, so any references to good studies of medieval (or classical, or early modern) stone-lore (science or pseudo-science) would be welcome. She is aware of Marbod of Rennes Liber Lapidum/Liber De Gemmis - has it been translated (to English or French)? and she will of course see what Isidore has to say. There appears to be little on the topic in Icelandic mss, but there is one published one with two pages on stones. Some of them are easy enough to guess, others less so. My guesses are below - 'Gerathises'  defeats me completely! If anyone knows what these stones are, or of alternative spellings under which they might appear, we would very much appreciate it? 

Meg

Ematistus   Amethyst

Crisopatius  Chrysophase

GERATHISES

Magnetis  Magnet

Adamantes  Adamant

Allectorius ? Electrum ?

Celdonius ? Chalcedony ?

 

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