- Object type
- Seals
- Date
- Production: 1258 - 1272
- Subject(s)
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Bearers of the Cross
Knights Hospitaller
Hospitals - Associated person
- Subject: Hughes de Revel (d. 1277)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: CUSTOS: FRATER: HUGO
obverse: A W
reverse: +HOSPITALIS :IERUSALEM
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 39mm
- Materials and technique
- Lead
- References
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Pauli, S., Codice diplomatico del sacro militare ordine gerosolimitano, 1733-7; 1
King, Edwin James. Seals of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1932.
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Whatley, L. J. "Visual Self-Fashioning and the Seals of the Knights Hospitaller in England." In , Remembering the Crusades: Myth, Image and Identity, edited by Paul, N and S. Yeager. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012.
Pages 252-270 - Catalogue number
- 3194
Lead bulla of Hugh Revel
Bullas were forms of authentication attached to key documents and would have acted like a signature. Bullas of Masters of the Order always showed them kneeling before a cross, and this one depicting Hugh Revel, Master of the Hospital from 1258 to 1277, is no different. These items were very important, especially for a Master who enacted as much reform as Revel.