- Object type
- Seals
- Date
-
Production (possible): 1278 - 1289
Production (possible): 1850 - 1915 - Subject(s)
- Bearers of the Cross
- Associated person
- Nicholas Lorgne (d. 1285)
- Inscriptions
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obverse: FRATER: NICOLAUS: CUSTOS:
reverse: HOSPITALIS: IHERVSALEM
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 44mm
- Materials and technique
- Plaster and wax, cast
- References
-
King, Edwin James. Seals of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1932.
Page 15
Fincham, Henry Walter. Catalogue of the Museum at St. Johns Gate. Unpublished, Museum of the Order of St John, 1915.
Seal 32
Birch, Walter de Gray. Catalogue of seals in the Department of manuscripts in the British Museum. British Museum, 1887.
Page 851 - Provenance
- Cast of a cast held in the British Library (EB 2) of unknown origin.
- Exhibition history
- Holy City, Holy War: Devotion to the Sacred in Crusader Jerusalem, Museum of the Order of St John, 2 September 2017-22 December 2017
- Credit line
- Gift of W. Barclay Squire, Esq., 1916
- Catalogue number
- 3633
Cast of leaden bulla of Grand Master Nicholas de Lorgne
This is a cast of a bulla that depicts a building with three domes, a design that evoked the architecture of the Holy Sepulchre. The shrouded body that figured centrally was a visual reminder of the source of the church’s sanctity: the body of Christ, which had once lain within the tomb.