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King James decided to sell around £20,000 worth of the jewels to help fund his progress in the summer of 1619. [257] The goldsmith and financier Peter Vanlore advanced £18,000 on some of the jewels. The best pearls and other rare jewels including a carcanet collar of round and long pearls were retained. [258]
The Ratnakūṭa collection totals 49 Mahāyāna sūtras, divided into 120 fascicles in the Chinese translation. [3] Garma Chang, who is listed as General Editor of a volume of select sūtras from the Mahāratnakūṭa translated from Chinese into English, (see below, Further Reading, Garma C.C. Chang, (1983).
In 1913, an English translation by C.E. Wheeler appeared called the Organon of the Rational Art of Healing, published in the Everyman's Library series by J M Dent in London. Below the title of the Book was written a small couplet from Gallert's poem - The truth we mortals need. Us blest to make and keep, The All-wise slightly covered over
Gillis was a daughter of John Mowbray of Barnbougle and Elizabeth or Elspeth Kirkcaldy, a sister of the soldier William Kirkcaldy of Grange.When William Kirkcaldy of Grange was about to be executed in 1573, Gillis Mowbray's father, the Laird of Barnbougle, who was Kirkcaldy's brother-in-law, wrote to Regent Morton to plead for his life, offering money, service, and royal jewels worth £20,000 ...
An early 20th-century likeness of Curtana, with ragged tip after a 1661 catalogue by Sir Edward Walker, Garter King of Arms. [10]The name Curtana or Curtein (from the Latin Curtus, meaning short [11] [12]) appears on record for the first time in accounts of the coronation of Queen Eleanor of Provence in 1236 when Henry III of England married the queen.
Muhammad Ghawth (Ghouse, [1] Ghaus or Gwath [2] [3]) Gwaliyari (1500–1562) was a 16th-century Sufi master of the Shattari order and Sufi saint, a musician, [4] and the author of Jawahir-i Khams (Arabic: al-Jawahir al-Khams, The Five Jewels). The book mentioning the life and miracles of Gaus named " Heaven's witness" was written by Kugle.
Meadows of Gold and Mines of Gems, an English translation of the Muruj al-dhahab by Aloys Sprenger, London 1841 Vol 1 (the only volume published) Prairies d'or, Arabic edition and French translation of Muruj al-dhahab by Barbier de Meynard and Pavet de Courteille, Paris 1861-77 Vol 1 of 9; Vol 2 of 9; Vol 3 of 9; Vol 4 of 9; Vol 5 of 9; Vol 6 ...
[11] [12] When the popes assumed temporal power in the Papal States, the base crown became decorated with jewels to resemble the crowns of princes. [11] Innocent III is represented with an early tiara in a fresco at Sacro Speco and on a mosaic from Old Saint Peter's , now in the Museo di Roma . [ 13 ]