File:Seal Hospitalis IER Nenagh.png

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Description Scan of a photograph, depicting the seal's impression. This is the medieval seal of the Augustinian Hospitallers house of St. John the Baptist in Nenagh. From the original description by William Hugh Patterson: The seal or matrix is of silver, and is in a perfect state of preservation; it is 2 inches long and rather less an inch and a quarter wide. The rib, for giving strength, usually found in seals of this type, extends along the back, and is pierced with a hole for a ring or chain; on the flat surface of the back of the seal, close to the hole, two small stars of sixpoints have been engraved. [..] I am told that the inscription, which is in letters of the thirteenth century, is easily read, and is as follows: [..] ✚ S HOS PITALIS IER NE NAGH. [..] The device in the central part shows two female figures; the taller, I presume, is intended to represent the Virgin Mary, and the smaller one an angel holding a scroll, on which is inscribed “Ave Maria.”
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Source Scan taken out of William Hugh Patterson: On an Ancient Seal of the Hospital of St. John at Nenagh. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Sixth Series, Vol. 2, No. 1, 1912, pp. 46-47. The figure is on p. 47.
Author William Hugh Patterson (1835–1918)
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