Citations:camahutus

Latin citations of camahuti and camahutorum

• 1272, an unnamed list of Henry III of England’s jewels, quoted in: Charles William King, The Natural History of Precious Stones and of the Precious Metals (1867), chapter viii: “Margarita: and later, Margaritum: Μαργαρίτης: Pearl”, page 269:

  In the list of our Henry III.’s jewels occurs “Una Perla ad modum camahuti,” seemingly a baroque presenting some resemblance to a head in relief.

• 1720, Romain Le Testu (translator), Jean-Baptiste de Monicart (author), Verſailles Immortaliſé: Verſaliarum Conſecrata Memoria I, “Aula Mercurii, in Majoribus Ædibus Verſalicis”, page 216:

  Aliæ omnes tabellæ quibus hæc quadrata in laqueari meo maxima circumcingitur, quæque in Camahutorum modum pictæ ſunt, denotant Juſtitiam, Authoritatem regiam, Fortitudinem, corporis Sanitatem, Studium optimarum artium, Legationes diverſarum Gentium miſſas ad Cæſarem Auguſtum, Legationemque Indorum ad Alexandrum Magnum.