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SEALS OF DENMARK	30
ensigned, avst, stiria
QUEENS CONSORT	145
ensigned, lozengy, diapered
BISHOPS IN PARTIBUS INFIDELIUM and of Foreign Eastern	409
episcopus, crocketed, diapered
MONASTIC SEALS	425
crocketed, brolio, cxxx
RELIGIOUS ORDERS	434
saltire, cxxxvi, estoile
REPRESENTATIONS OF SAINTS ETC	454
cxxxvi, aldobrandino, orlandi

STATE SEALS	463
egert, belgii, caillou
MONASTIC SEALS	470
corbel, cxxxi, beatissima
LOCAL SEALS	477
scabini, cxxxi, masoned
EQUESTRIAN SEALS	509
hauberk, surcoat, caparisons
FIGURES OF NOBLE AND ILLUSTRIOUS LADIES	523
estoiles, chevin, segreant
SEALS BEARING MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES	587
norica, agnus, descamps
SEALS OF POLAND	599
poloni, krasinski, ornamentally
SEALS OF RUSSIA	607
cxlii, slavonic, saltire
KING OF SERVIA	615
electrotypes, legionis, viscaya
PRIVY SEAL SECRETUM	635
arostegui, corbel, cxxxv
MONASTIC SEALS	642
cxxxv, bordure, concilii
HERALDIC SEALS	648
cxxix, caparisons, navarre
SEALS OF SWEDEN	675
gothland, bulla, cxiv
LOCAL SEALS	682
vallais, universitas, grisons
EQUESTRIAN SEALS	689

SEALS OF TURKEY	149
patinated
CONSTANTINOPLE	693
hospodar, sayyid, moldavia
ANTIOCH	699
malchus, rodez, montis
JEWISH SEALS	705
mitred, sealing, seville
MASSACHUSETTS	716
terrasse, legation, plata
APPENDIX	721
uncoloured, cxlii, sigillum
ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE VOLUME	733

TABLE OF CONTENTS	637
arostegui, palm branch, ecclesiastical vestments

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JSTOR: Catalogue of Seals in the Public Record Office: Monastic Seals
558) dated 1535 has a legend described as Lombardic; reference is made to Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the ...
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Walter de Gray Birch Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum. Volume 3. (1894) (Google Book Search [Hints and tips]) ...
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AIM25: Senate House Library, University of London: Legal documents ...
For descriptions of the Mayoral seals, see Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum (-1900). ...
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sigillography :: Additional Reading -- Encyclopaedia Britannica
The basic catalog for European seals and impressions is Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, ...
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Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum · Monastic Seals of the xiiith Century: a series of examples, illustrating the ...
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Prosopography of the Byzantine World: Seal editions
... Catalogue of seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1898; BM Additions: Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the ...
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Elibron: Title Info Page
Catalogue of seals in the Department of manuscripts in the British museum. Volume II. Elibron Classics, 2002, 871 pages. ISBN 9781421259185 paperback ...
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BIRCH (W. de Gray), Catalogue of seals in the department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Londres, 1887-1900, 6 vol. BLANCARD (L.), Iconographie des ...
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W. de G. Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British. Museum, vol. 2 (1892), p.152; The Victoria History of the Counties of ...
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Prosopographie der Mittelbyzantinischen Zeit - Page 28
by Ralph-Johannes Lilie, Friedhelm Winkelmann, Thomas Pratsch, Ilse Rochow, Claudia Ludwig, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften - 1998 - 333 pages
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Places mentioned in this book

Maastricht - Page 559
559 Florence de Leopardo, £,ch«vin of Maastricht. A shield "of arms: a lion rampant or leopard. Within a chaplet or border charged with ten cinquefoil ...
more pages: 544 564 579 815

Leon - Page 22
ALFONSO, " Le Sage" King of Castile and Leon, elected, AD 1257 ; abdicated, AD 1273. Seal, as King and Emperor. 21.160. Plaster cast, tinted grey, ...
more pages: 619 643 648 731

Jerusalem - Page 701
Octagonal: a cross potent of Jerusalem, cantoned with four similar but smaller crosses ; forming the armorial bearings of the KINGDOM OF JERUSALEM. ...
more pages: 48 74 81 321

Steyr - Page 95
LEOPOLD IV., Duke of Austria, etc., "LEUPOLT, Hertzog ze Osterreich, se Steyr, ze Kernden, vnd ze Karn, Graf ze Tyrol. ...
more pages: 810

Veere - Page 729
Count of Catzenellebogen, Vianden, Diets, Lingen, Moeur^ Buijreti, Leer dam, etc.; Marquis Van der Veere and Vlissingen ; Lord and Baron of Breda, ...
more pages: 532

Venice - Page 451
b. bendy of eight or four bends ; over all on a fess a serpent undt', for SAVELLI, of Venice; 4. quarterly of seven pieces, four in chief and three in ...
more pages: 398 401 446 784

Moscow - Page 607
displayed, each head imperially crowned ; charged on the breast with an ornamental shield or cuirass of arms of Moscow (see No. ...

Chievres - Page 494
There are two towns of this name in Belgium, the one near Chievres, the other near Renaix ; the former is probably the one to which the above seal ...

Seville - Page 705
n^OB's Vnp c?npn ^npa (The holy congregation, the congregation of Seville.) SAMPSON, son of SAMPSON. 23202. [i3th cent.] Recent impression in red ...
more pages: 807

Pamplona - Page 669
Seal used by BARTOLOMEO DE SANGUESSA, cambiador franquo del burgo de Sant Cerin de Pamplona, guarda del sieyllo del Seynnor Rey puesto en Pamplona. ...
more pages: 798

Brussels - Page 546
each with two windows and a portal, on a canton or franc-quartier a lion rampant, for COUDENBERG, one of the seven patrician families of Brussels. ...
more pages: 758 765 799 814

Florence - Page 438
COLLE, or CASTRUM SANCTI ANGELI IN COLLE, near Florence. 22443. [i3th cent] Recent impression in black sealing- wax, from a metal matrix, i-^ in. ...
more pages: 425 455 761 772

Apulia - Page 246
EDMUND, King of Sicily and Apulia, (Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, Derby, etc., surnamed " Croitchback." second son of King Henry III. of England), ob. ...
more pages: 736

Rome - Page 45
adopted by Maximilan I. in AD 1508, in place of the hitherto used title of Rex Ro- manorum, borne by the sovereigns before their coronation in Rome. ...
more pages: 430 451 804

Exeter - Page 166
It is difficult to account for the appension of an impression of this seal to a document belonging to Exeter, co. ...

Haarlem - Page 576
Dire Symon Donden Zoen, Scepcn in Haarlem. 22915. [AD 1415.] Bronze-green: imperfect. About % in when perfect. [Add. ch. 12746.] ...
more pages: 584 815

Ipswich - Page 548
Legend on a scroll:— : ROBERT : GILLES : Seal of a Belgian Family used by Matthew Gooddin ge. of Ipswich, co. Suff. 22799. [AD 1564. ...
more pages: 588

Oxford - Page 431
Sulph. cast from the matrix preserved in Bodley's Library, Oxford. I \ in. [xlvii. 697.] St. Restituta, standing turned slightly to the dex., crowned, ...
more pages: 223 442 448

Luxemburg - Page 32
Rama, Servia, Galicia, Lodomiria, Cuntania, and Bulgaria, Margrave of Brandenburg, Heir of the Kingdom of Bohemia and Counts/tip of Luxemburg. ...
more pages: 35 121 526 790

Genoa - Page 400
The city of Genoa represented by an elevation of an edifice with two round-headed arches on columns, central dome, and pinnacles or turrets at the ...
more pages: 445 446

Milan - Page 632
the East and West India Islands, the Islands and t/ie Tierra fir me of t/te Ocean Sea, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy, Brabant and Milan" etc. ...
more pages: 631 815

Paris - Page 5
D'Arcq, Collection des Sceaux, etc., Paris, 3 torn., 1863, No. 15. (v This work is comprised among the Inventaires et Documents publics par Ordre de ...
more pages: 595

Riemst - Page 814
Van Giese, Riemst, 22796. Van Hese, Wilhem, v. Van Wele. Van Hetterscheit, Otte, 21561. buy ten bij Wtrecht, 22815. Van Langheraec, Her Jan, Ridder, ...

Gloucester - Page 729
JP Moore, of Gloucester. I£ X If in. [cxlii. 52.] Pointed oval: Our Lord after Resurrection, with nimbus, in the rh a scroll inscribed NOLI ...

Augsburg - Page 726
Marquart Von Stain, Provost of Mainz, Bamberg, and Augsburg, in Germany. 23229. [AD 1555.] Red: injured by pressure. ITV in. ...
more pages: 754 810

London - Page 676
Legation of Sweden and Norway to London. Letter Seal. 23148. [Modern.] Recent impression in red sealing-wax, from the matrix. IJ. x I-rV in. [xlix. ...
more pages: 142 446 758 817

Canterbury - Page 175
Recent impression in red sealing-wax, from matrix found in the garden of Sturry Vicarage near Canterbury in 1843. i^xi-p^in. ...

Istria - Page 440
Island of VEGLIA, /;/ Istria (now in Austria}. Official Seal of the Justice of the Peace. 22451. \c. AD 1765-1790.] Recent impression in red ...

Burgos - Page 756
Burgos, 23098. Blanche d'Artois, Queen of Navarre, 23129. Blanchis, Emilius de, 22149. Bland, Marcus, Episcopus Equilinus, 22329. ...
more pages: x

Glasgow - Page 559
Recent impression in gutta-percha from the matrix, found in the Molendinar-burn, Glasgow. !£ in. [xlvii. 1445.] A shield of arms, couchi/: an eagle ...
more pages: 775

Capellen - Page 751
Van der Capellen, 22749. Van der Elst, 22784. Van der Hoolck, 22817. Van der Horste, 22818. Van der Merwede, 22847. Van der Osten, 22674. ...

Purmerend - Page 584
Qf 1 • * * flit • * Ci, Ii • * * * • Gheriit Van den Ziil, Heer tot Pitrmereyndc, or Purmerend, in North Holland, Netherlands, Ridder. ...

Zutphen - Page 633
Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Artois, Burgundy, Palatine of Tirol, Hainault, Holland, Zeeland, Namur, and Zutphen ; Prince of Zivavia (Swabia) ; ...

Dortmund - Page 206
Henrich Akenschocke, Borgermeister to Kamen [Camen in Westphalia, Prussia, near Dortmund^\ 21536. [AD 1442.] Dark-green. I in. On a saucer- shaped, ...

Bari - Page 403
___ BISHOP OF MOTULA, near Bari, in Italy, (Motulaitus Episcopus}. LEONARDUS. AD 1467-1482. 22.337. Sulph. cast, tinted grey, from good impression. ...

Merchtem - Page 793
Merchtem, in Brabant, Provost of St. Maur at, 22555. Scabini of, 22637. Lord of, 22637. Mercoria, Prince of, [? Reismarkt, or Szerdahely ...

Bologna - Page 757
Bologna, in Italy, Archpriest and Canon of, 22164. Canon of, 22322. Cathedral Chapter of St. Peter at, 22321. Bonafredi, Jacobus, Citizen of Florence, ...

Glarus - Page 775
Claris, or Glarus, in Switzerland, Canton, 23165. Glasgow, seal found in the Molen- dinar-burn at, 22843. Goat browsing on a tree, 23145. ...

Valencia - Page 653
JAMES, King of Aragon, the Majorcas, and Valencia ; Count of Barcelona, and Urge! ; and Lord of Montpellier. Leaden Bulla. ...

Frankfurt - Page 755
Legation to Frankfurt, 21322. Legation to London, 21321. Bavi&re, Guillaume de, Count of Ostrcvant, 22715. Bear, erect, a, 23172. holding a ball, ...

Hanover - Page 739
Bremen, in Hanover (three eagles displayed), 22529. — Bretagne, in France (ermine), 21357,22151. Brisgau, or Breisgau, in Ger-many (a lion rampant ...
more pages: 232 758

Cologne - Page 160
5 I Bom • rbfiiiavBi • Be « ftocnfrls ;«***; Decant * etcl'it ; mator' » trcS • MUNSTER, in Diocese of Treves, or Cologne. ...
more pages: 815

Amsterdam - Page 570
328; ]. du Mont, Corps Univtrul Diplomatique, Amsterdam, 1731, tome vii., Pt- «, P- 5'- Jan Robaulx, Lord of Daussois in Namur, Belgium, etc. 22887. ...
more pages: 735

Assisi - Page 753
Assisi, in Perugia, Italy, Seal of the 23085. Attendolis, Michelettus de, Comes 22,4.61. Cotignola, Captain of Siena, Auca, in Old Castile, Spain, v. ...

Mainz - Page 791
Mainz, or Mayence, in Darmstadt, SW Germany, Archbishops of, 21401-21408. Cathedral of St. Martin, 21409. 21411. Canon of, 21410, Provost of, 23229. ...

Leipzig - Page 607
For the Sclavonic alphabet used on these seals see JF Fritz, Orien- lalisch und Occidentalisch Sprachmeister, Leipzig, 1748, 8vo. ...

Beveren - Page 756
Beveren al. Beverna, Thierri de, ChA- telain of Dixmude, 22583. Beverningk, Hierosme de, Plenipotentiary of Netherlands at Breda, 22724. ...

Hanau - Page 743
743 Hanau (three chevrons], 21499, 21558,21560. Hapsburg (a lion rampant, crowned), 21196, 21197, 21201, 21203-21206, 21209, 21227, 21258, etc., ...

Nuremberg - Page 797
Nuremberg, or Niirnberg, in Bavaria, SW Germany, Burgrave of, 21328,21329. Judicial seal of, 21513. • Secretum of the citizens, 21514,21515- ...
more pages: 197

Perugia - Page 437
(Assisium), in Perugia. Seal of tlie City. " Illustrissima et Seraphica Civitas." 22439. [AD 1748.] Red, en placard, covered with paper, ...

Nicosia - Page 796
Nicosia, or Nicossia, in Cyprus, Royal seal, 23186, 23187. Nidda, in Darmstadt, Germany, Countof, 21559. Nieuport, Town, 22646. ...

Solothurn - Page 809
Soleure, or Solothurn, in Switzerland, Canton, 23175. Solms, in Hessen-Darmstadt, Count of, 21610. 21611. Solms, v. Von Solmesse. ...

Schaffhausen - Page 807
Schaffhausen, in Switzerland, Canton, 23,I73- 21642. Schiferli, de, Grand Master of Schelewacad, Jan, 22900. Schermer, T/. Noord Schermer. ...

Muiden - Page 746
Mouda, or Muiden, 22645. Miilhingen, Counts, 21457, 21537- Mulken, 22864, 22865. Munaldisci, 22482. (coupe}, 21499, 21560. ...

Basel - Page 755
Basel, or Basle, in Switzerland, Canton, 23157. • Consuls of the City, 23240. Sacrosancta Generalis Sy- nodus, 23150-23154. Basilicz-novje, Marckio ...

Athens - Page 413
BISHOPS OF CQRO'NE.near Athens (CoronensisEpiscopiis). ANDREAS. AD 1336. See under BISHOP OF VOSPRUM, Nos. 22389-22394. Fr. PETRUS CORNERIUS. 22362. ...

Brunswick - Page 738
Blanchis, De, 22149. burg, in Brunswick (two " bois-de- cerf"), 21333. Blanckenberg, or Blanken- •— Bloemendael, or Blumenthal, 22725. ...

Jesolo - Page vii
400 Giesolo, Equilio, or Jesolo .. .t .. ( ,. .. ..401 Grade .. 401 Lodi .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 402 Mantua .. .. .. .. .. .. ,. ...

Andalucia - Page 645
SEVILLE, in Andalucia. Seal of the City. 23104. [AD 1493.] Sulph. cast from a chipped, some-what indistinct impression. 3 in. ...
more pages: 644

St. Louis - Page 543
A representation of St. Louis, standing, crowned, holding sceptres. Before him a shield of arms : a horse salient. • S • LOIS • LE • DOVLX •. ...

Lara - Page 784
Lara, in Old Castile, Spain, Lord of, 23,°5', 23052. La Roche, Count of, 22696, S. Maria at, 23098. Las Roelas, Juan de, Bishop of Las Hnelgas, ...

Syracuse - Page 811
Syracuse, in Sicily, Seal of the " Most Faithful City " of, 22449. Canon of, 22340-22346. Syre, St., v. Silas, St. Tadros Halevi, of Toledo, 23205. ...

Livonia - Page 789
Livonia, in Russia, Grand Duke of, 22987, 22988. Livonia;, Dux, 23147. Loaysa, Prater Garsyas de, Master of the Preaching Friars, 22430- 22433- ...

Charlotte - Page 741
Charlotte), 21602. (Royalarms of George label for Princess Erbisceul, Town, 22589. Ercle, 22675. Erenbaldengem, 22786. Erfurt, 21329. ...