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LOT 883

Sold for (Inc. bp): £828

MEDIEVAL - LEAD PAPAL BULLA SEAL - ALEXANDER IV
(49.71 grams, 39 mm diameter.).

1254-1261 AD. A lead seal from a papal Bull of Alexander IV (Rinaldo Di Segni); First Type. Obv: facing busts of Saints Paul and Peter with SPA SPE inscription above and long cross between. Rev: ALE XANDER PP IIII inscription in three lines.

PROVENANCE:
Ex 6th Earl of Arran (Sir Arthur Gore), 1920.

LITERATURE:
W. de Gray Birch, Seals in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. 6, p. 275, no. 12,791 (from a Bull dated 1255 AD), pl. VII; D'Arcq, no. 6049.

FOOTNOTES:
These lead seals were attached to papal 'bulls' or documents issued by the Pope.

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