Reliability of municipal seal drawings in an eighteenth-century manuscript entitled Apparatus Sigillorum Pomeraniae et Rugiae Civitatum Cover Image

Wiarygodność odrysów pieczęci miejskich w XVIII-wiecznym rękopisie pt. Apparatus Sigillorum Pomeraniae et Rugiae Civitatum
Reliability of municipal seal drawings in an eighteenth-century manuscript entitled Apparatus Sigillorum Pomeraniae et Rugiae Civitatum

Author(s): Łukasz Koremba
Subject(s): Cultural history, Local History / Microhistory, 18th Century
Published by: Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: sphragistics; municipal seals; drawings of seals; Apparatus Sigillorum; Western Pomerania;

Summary/Abstract: The article raises the reliability of town seals’ drawings presented in an eighteenth-century manuscript entitled Apparatus Sigillorum Pomeraniae et Rugiae Civitatum held at the State Archive of Greifswald. The drawings of seals shown there were compared with reproductions of the same seals preserved in the archival collections. In this way, it was possible to verify 158 of the 227 seal impressions positively. The accompanying catalogue shows the 69 remaining seals that could not be verified based on the available archival material.

  • Issue Year: 2023
  • Issue No: 61
  • Page Range: 79-107
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish