Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES
- MAPS AND PLANS
- Preface
- Chapter I The House of Benjamin the Jew: 1225–1267
- Chapter II The Friars and the University: 1225–1306
- Chapter III The New House
- Chapter IV Domestic Affairs
- Chapter V Some Activities of the Friars
- Chapter VI The Franciscan School at Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century
- Chapter VII The Latter Years
- Chapter VIII The Dissolution and After
- Appendix A Custodes, Wardens, Vice-wardens and Lectors
- Appendix B Biographical Notes on Cambridge Franciscans
- Appendix C The Dispute between the Friars and the University of Cambridge, 1303–6
- Appendix D James Essex's Observations on the Old Chapel of Sidney College in Cambridge
- Appendix E Fragment of an Account-book belonging to the Cambridge Franciscans
- Appendix F Legacies
- Appendix G Documents connected with the Dissolution
- Appendix H Seals of the Cambridge Franciscans
- Index
- Plate section
Appendix H - Seals of the Cambridge Franciscans
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PLATES
- MAPS AND PLANS
- Preface
- Chapter I The House of Benjamin the Jew: 1225–1267
- Chapter II The Friars and the University: 1225–1306
- Chapter III The New House
- Chapter IV Domestic Affairs
- Chapter V Some Activities of the Friars
- Chapter VI The Franciscan School at Cambridge in the Fourteenth Century
- Chapter VII The Latter Years
- Chapter VIII The Dissolution and After
- Appendix A Custodes, Wardens, Vice-wardens and Lectors
- Appendix B Biographical Notes on Cambridge Franciscans
- Appendix C The Dispute between the Friars and the University of Cambridge, 1303–6
- Appendix D James Essex's Observations on the Old Chapel of Sidney College in Cambridge
- Appendix E Fragment of an Account-book belonging to the Cambridge Franciscans
- Appendix F Legacies
- Appendix G Documents connected with the Dissolution
- Appendix H Seals of the Cambridge Franciscans
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
1. Vicar of the Custos of the Cambridge Custody.
The description is as follows:
Pointed oval, 1¾″ × 1″.
Under a canopy a shield of the fabulous arms of our Lord, i.e. the implements of the Passion. On either side of the shield a sprig of oak. Below under an arch the vicar in his habit kneeling to right.
Legend in Lomb. cap.:
.s'. VICARII: CVSTODIS: CANTABRIGGE:
B.M. Cat. 2827; ‘about A.D. 1244 from the matrix’.
The matrix was found in Cambridge in 1819. Its present whereabouts is not known.
(Franciscan History and Legend in English Medieval Art, ed. A. G. Little, Brit. Soc. of Franc. Studies, p. 85).
2. Guardian (?) of the Cambridge Friary.
Pointed oval, 1″ × ″
The eagle of S. John nimbed and displayed. Beneath it on a scroll iohnis…; below the scroll the guardian(?) half length in prayer to left.
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- The Grey Friars in Cambridge1225–1538, pp. 261 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1952