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Seal of the Abbey of Royaumont


Holding Institution: Archives Nationales (Paris)
Catalog number: D8362
Date: 1374
Location: Beauvais

Size: 44 mm

Monastic seal
Abbey of Royaumont


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Description:
 The Virgin seated in a Gothic niche, crowned and veiled holding the standing infant Jesus; two angels in a smaller niche on either side, in adoration; at the bottom left, a bust of the king; appended to a 1374 promise to say prayers for the king

Transcription:
 [sigillum] ..... regal[is]montis

Reference:
 Douët-d'Arcq, L. Collection de sceaux. Paris : H. Plon, 1863-1868.

 

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