A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations (1907)

British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945, Read, Charles Hercules, Sir, 1857-1929 · [London] : Printed by order of the Trustees · leaf 230

An illustration from A guide to the Mediaeval Room and to the specimens of mediaeval and later times in the gold ornament room : with fourteen plates and a hundred and ninety-four illustrations, 1907, leaf 230 — n the French National Archives upon two Chartersof Offa, King of Mercia (a.d. 790), and Eadgar (a.d. 960), showthat our early kings were possessed of matrices engraved withtheir portraits as early as the close of the eighth century. JEthel-wulf of Wessex also used a seal in the year a.d. 857.… … Fig. 148.—Matrices of seals. At top, Joanna, daughter of Henry II ofEngland. At bottom, Robert Fitzwalter (on the left), John Holland, secondEarl of Huntingdon, Admiral of England, Ireland, and Aquitaine, 1435-1442. In the middle, Black Canons Priory of St. Denis, Southam])ton.(See p. 37.) the…

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