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Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum

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Printed by order of the trustees, 1900 - Seals (Numismatics)
  

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Page 699 - They are much honoured by the Greeks, Syrians, and all the oriental nations. Their relics were conveyed to Marseilles in a large' stone coffin, which is still shown there in St. Victor's church. In the Musseum Victorium at Rome is a factitious plaster or stone, (made of sulphur melted with fire and mortar,) formed in imitation of a large precious stone, in which is cut a group of figures representing the Seven Sleepers, with their names, and near Constantine and John are exhibited two clubs ; near...
Page 625 - Armorial bearings not on a shield. Per pale dexter, quarterly 1 and 4 Castile ; 2 and 3 Leon ; sinister, quarterly 1 and 4 France (ancient) ; 2 and 3 England, with a label of three points ermine. The first and fourth quarters of each F1r,, (iv.) PRIVY SEALS AND GREAT SEAL OF JOHN OF GAUNT.
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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 ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0038-7134(198901)64%3A1%3C158%3ACOSITP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S

sigillography :: Additional Reading -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
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, ...
www.britannica.com/ eb/ article-58828/ sigillography

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). ...
www.aim25.ac.uk/ cgi-bin/ search2?coll_id=1481& inst_id=14

Archdales, Combs &c. of the Inner Temple
1093; Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. ii, p.796. Witnesses Brother John de Dugmantone Prior of ...
www.combs-families.org/ combs/ records/ england/ innertemple.htm

Some proposed corrections and additions to the Complete Peerage ...
two and one (for Ros) [Walter de Gray Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, vol. 3, p. 651 (1894)]. ...
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From: "Rosie Bevan" <> Subject: Maud Furnival wife of Walter Montgomery of Cubley Date: 16 Aug 2005 00:52:38 -0700. Some time ago I posted a study on the ...
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Exeter Register 2006
Contents. From the Rector. 4. From the President of the MCR. 8. From the President of the JCR. 11. Jonathan Wordsworth by James Hamilton-Paterson ...
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