A Pair Of Fossilised, Shrunken Fulberts.
Non Intrabit Eunuchus, Adritis Vel Amputatis Testiculis, Et Absciso Veretro Ecclesiam Domini. (He That Is Wounded In The Stones, Or Hath His Privy Member Cut Off, Shall Not Enter Into The Congregation Of The Lord)
According to a brief entry in an unknown hand in the Alberic and Lotulphe catalog these well-shrunken, fossilised "fulberts", or human testicles, were collected by one Canon Fulbert of Paris at the beginning of the twelfth century. The inscription in Latin, Deuteronomy xxiii, 1., was written on the leather envelope enclosing the specimens.
The term "fulberts", meaning stones or testicles, quickly entered use in England and was current until Johnson's time when Boswell reports a description of one Jackson, a bald, loan shark financially supported by a licentious Whig politician: "want of tenderness is want of parts, and Jackson tucks his fulberts under a Whig".