. The Archaeological journal. t; .? r Guild, of All Saints in VVisby. if the order ofreceding, hut itstally interesting. No 7. The seal of brother Gerard of Gottland,preachers. This Beal is verj much smaller than the1 nd subsequent wanderings have made it i i pointed oval, 1 | inch long, and j of an inch wide, of somewhatstiff design and workmanship. Around the edge is this inscription: +S,PRISGaRARARDIDa:GOTLADIA ORDIS PDIT Sigtllum fratris Gerarardi de Gotlandia ordinis predicatorum. Within is acrowned female standing, holding b child, and a tnonli is kneeling, prayingto them. There can be n
. The Archaeological journal. t; .? r Guild, of All Saints in VVisby. if the order ofreceding, hut itstally interesting. No 7. The seal of brother Gerard of Gottland,preachers. This Beal is verj much smaller than the1 nd subsequent wanderings have made it i i pointed oval, 1 | inch long, and j of an inch wide, of somewhatstiff design and workmanship. Around the edge is this inscription: +S,PRISGaRARARDIDa:GOTLADIA ORDIS PDIT Sigtllum fratris Gerarardi de Gotlandia ordinis predicatorum. Within is acrowned female standing, holding b child, and a tnonli is kneeling, prayingto them. There can be no doubt thai this group represents brother Gerardand the Virgin Alary with the Infant Saviour. With the right hand sheholds a ball, with the lefi hand she holds the Infant Jesus, while he isup to her face, and with hi lefl hand behold b cro on her bosom. (in the \ o in right ha ml kneels brother Gerard, with the ten sun, a I I and lo . hi hand are uprai ed in the attitude of prayer. Over his EXAMPLES OF MEDIAEVAL SEALS. 2G3. head is a star of six points, and there is a similar star helow the ground on which the figures rest. The date of this seal appears to he the early part of the XlVth century. Its shape and inscription point out plainly that it was the personal seal of an ecclesiastic, and, although he calls himself only frater, since it was not the custom for each ordinary monk in a con-vent to have his own peculiar seal, and indeed for none hut the head or some official of the hody, this must be concluded to have been the private seal of brother Gerard of Gottland, who may have been chief of theorder of Preachers (or Dominican monks) in thatcountry. At what time or in whose hands it left Gottland isnot known, but the mode of its restoration a few years ago is too curiousto be omitted. The seal is of silver, the shape not fully 1825 a Wisby ship-master having taken a ship-load of copper fromAlexandria to sell at Athru, in Candia, he there received in payment,to
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