. A treatise offering descriptions or allegorical interpretations of precious and semiprecious stones. Medieval French lapidaries fall into two categories: those, deriving ultimately from pagan tradition, which describe the appearance, formation, and...

A lapidary (the word means "concerned with stones") is an artisan who practices the craft of working, forming and finishing stone, mineral, gemstones, and other suitably durable materials (amber, shell, jet, pearl, copal, coral, horn and bone, glass and...