Ladies with Rings

[MarcoP]

While researching my last post, I was reminded of this thread by this image of Ovid holding an oversized ring. As an added bonus, there's a cloud-band under him

If you browse the book, you will see that below most portraits there is a “frame” of some kind. They can be interpreted as waves, leaves, nebuly lines. I doubt these frames have a specific meaning. 

The Nuremberg Chronicle arbitrarily reuses several times the same engravings, changing the labels. The image of Ovid was conceived to illustrate You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:



The ring is mentioned in You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
[Prometheus] was the first to strike fire from rock; and he originated the custom of wearing a ring (but of iron) on the fourth finger, in honor of the arteries of the heart. 

The passage about “the arteries of the heart” is explained in p.7 You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.:
[Prometheus] was the first to wear a ring made of iron as a sign of love. … He decided that the ring should be worn on the finger in which there is a vein that runs up to the heart.

In conclusion, also in this case the ring is a symbol of the bounds of love.