seal;
seal-impression
- Museum number
- 1858,0218.2
- Description
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Bronze seal-matrix of Vice-Warden of Greyfriars, Cambridge. Pointed oval, with a ridge and loop at the back. A shield, hanging by a strap, with the 'arms of the Passion', a cross raguly with a nail on each end of the transverse arm, debruised by a spear and crown of thorns in bend, and a sponge on a rod in bend sinister with two three-lashed scourges in base. Above, a double Gothic canopy crocketed, with pinnacles. On either side of the shield a branch of oak. Below, under a rounded arch with trefoil carving the Vice-Warden kneeling to right in prayer. Legend, within pearled borders. With plaster impression.
- Production date
- 1300 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 4.50 centimetres
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Width: 2.75 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Text from 'Catalogue of British Seal-Dies in the British Museum', A.B. Tonnochy, London 1952, cat. no. 836.
B.M. 'Cat. of Seals', no. 2827 (where, however, the seal is dated about 1244).
'Archaeologia', xxviii, p. 462.
A. Parkinson, 'Antiquities of the English Franciscans', i, p. 51, ii, p. 16. London, 1726.
For the so-called arms of the Passion see H. Syer Cuming in 'Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc.', xxxi, p. 91.
- Location
- On display (G40/dc10/sE)
- Acquisition date
- 1858
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1858,0218.2