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LOT 1673
Medieval Pewter Pilgrim's Badge of St. Ubaldus
14TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (7.7 grams, 43 mm).
Formed as a pentagonal plate showing a bishop in relief to the centre, wearing a mitre and floor length cope and surplice, holding attributes of his office, surrounding Latin legend: '[S]ANTVS VBALDVS EPISCOPVS DEV GV[BIO]' (St. Ubaldus, bishop, of Gubbio); one remaining attachment loop. [No Reserve]
Provenance
European collection, 1990s.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Literature
Another example, also fragmentary, but allowing completion of the inscription here, is reproduced as Abb.370 on p.200 of H.J.E. van Beuningen & A.M. Koldeweij, Heilig en Profaan 1000 Laatmiddeleeuwse Insignes [Rotterdam Papers VIII], Cothen, 1993, where dated c.1350-c.1450.
Footnotes
Commemorating a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Ubaldus (1085-1160) in Gubbio.
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