Catalogue of the ivory carvings of the Christian era with examples of Mohammedan art and carvings in bone in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum (1909)
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 199
are the letters I. B. [Johannes Baptista), andround the border the inscription : + SIGIL • COMVN • HOSP • ST • 10 • BAPT • EXTRA • BARR • LICH.(Sigilluiu Commune IPospitii Sancti Johannis Baptistac extra barras Lichfield).See figure. 1Jth century. L. 2 in. 1875. The seal has at the back a handle… … Both the forms barra and barrus were used for the bars of city gates. See Ducange,Glossarium med. et inf. Latinitatis, s.vv. RENAISSANCE AND LATER PERIODS 45 422. ANOTHER: seal of Christopher Sutton, Pre-bendary of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, A. D.1618-1629. A pelican in her piety surmountedby a…
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