Tooltip Categories: Stones
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Sapphire
Translation: Saphijr Description: a precious stone of a beautiful transparent blue, a variety of native alumina akin to the ruby (OED). VARIANTS: saphier, savier, saphires, saphiren. TYPES: (1) blauv savier,…
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Topaz
Translation: Topas Description: refers to the name given, with or without distinguishing adjunct, to several highly valued precious stones (OED). VARIANTS: topases, topassen. TYPES: (1) witte topaes, white topaz. Example…
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Turquoise
Translation: Turcquas Description: refers to a precious stone found in Persia (now Iran), much prized as a gem, of a sky-blue to apple-green colour, almost opaque or sometimes translucent, consisting…
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Diamond
Translation: Diamant Description: a very hard and brilliant precious stone, consisting of pure carbon crystallized in regular octahedrons and allied forms, and either colourless or variously tinted (OED). VARIANTS: diamantje…
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Emerald
Translation: Esmaraudt Description: a precious stone of bright green colour, in modern use exclusively applied to a variety of the beryl species (OED). VARIANTS: esmaraude, amiraulde, ameraud, amerouet, esmeranden, esmerauden,…
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Garnet
Translation: Grenaat Description: a vitreous mineral, most commonly found as a distinct crystal, and in the form of a rhomboidal dodecahedron, but also occurring in other shapes. The precious garnet…
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Hiacint
Translation: Hyacinth Description: the ancient name of a precious stone of a blue colour, rendering Greek ὑάκινθος and Latin hyacinthus, probably the sapphire (OED). VARIANTS: none identified. TYPES: none identified.…
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Onyx
Translation: Onix Description: a form of chalcedony consisting of plane layers of different colours, much used in jewellery (OED). VARIANTS: none identified. TYPES: none identified. Example of inventory: Inv. 47
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Opal
Translation: Opael Description: an amorphous form of hydrated silica resembling chalcedony, often white or colourless, but varying through blue-green and orange almost to black and valued in those forms showing…
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Pearl
Translation: Perrel Description: a hard, smooth, usually round, iridescent mass, typically white or bluish grey, formed of layers of calcium carbonate deposited around a foreign body in the shell of…