[33] Some estimate of their magnificence and extent may be obtained by means of contemporary inventories. The most remarkable inventory is perhaps that of John’s eldest son, Charles V—“the Wise”—drawn up in 1379 and published by J. Labarte. Scarcely less remarkable are the jewel inventories of his three other sons, Louis Duke of Anjou, John Duke of Berry, and Philip (le Hardi) Duke of Burgundy, which have been published respectively by L. de Laborde, J. Guiffrey, and B. Prost.
[34] Several inventories of the contents of the Burgundian treasury have been preserved. Lists of the magnificent jewels of two of the most powerful and wealthy, those of Philip the Good (1396-1467) and his son Charles the Bold (1433-1477) have been published by Laborde in his Ducs de Bourgogne, Pt. 2, Vol. II.
[35] Bateson (M.), Mediæval England, p. 13.
[36] Ibid., p. 148.
[37] Published by the Society of Antiquaries in 1789. pp. 332-353.
[38] Rymer, Fœdera, II, 1, pp. 203-205.
[39] Kalendars and Inventories of the Exchequer, III, p. 137.
[40] See list of his jewels in Inventories of the Exchequer, III, p. 166, and his Great Wardrobe Accounts (Archæologia, XXXI, p. 55).
[41] Paton (J.), Scottish national memorials, p. 337.
[42] The foremost interpreter of their mysteries in the Middle Ages was Marbode, Bishop of Rennes (1095-1123), in his De Lapidibus Pretiosis Enchiridion.