Indeed, JKP! Just read what you wrote as I was about to post something similar:
The ring is a symbol of the mystical marriage to Christ, and as such is an attribute of some saints, such as Catherine and Agnes, who are both often pictured holding rings, for eg. in this late 15th Century painting by the Master of the Legend of St Lucy:
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However, I must say that in none of the iconographies I have mentioned (Saint Kinga, Saint Agnes, or Saint Catherine) have I seen these rings depicted as oversized and held as they are in the Voynich and in the Lehwaldt arms.
This type of motif where an oversized, jeweled ring is clutched in a fist is something I have only found in heraldic images, from a very limited geographic area in Germany, such as here in the arms of the Lords of Stargard:
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The ring is a symbol of the mystical marriage to Christ, and as such is an attribute of some saints, such as Catherine and Agnes, who are both often pictured holding rings, for eg. in this late 15th Century painting by the Master of the Legend of St Lucy:
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However, I must say that in none of the iconographies I have mentioned (Saint Kinga, Saint Agnes, or Saint Catherine) have I seen these rings depicted as oversized and held as they are in the Voynich and in the Lehwaldt arms.
This type of motif where an oversized, jeweled ring is clutched in a fist is something I have only found in heraldic images, from a very limited geographic area in Germany, such as here in the arms of the Lords of Stargard:
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