Medieval Seal Bags Unravelled: An Interdisciplinary Collaboration.
Medieval seal bags—textile and parchment wrappings that cover wax seals appended to medieval charters—are rarely addressed in scholarship, despite being an intimate part of the material culture of charters.
#MedievalArt #MedievalHistory #TextileHistory #WaxSeals #MaterialCulture #MedievalCharters #ArtHistory #Interdiscipinary
https://issue-4.materiajournal.com/essay_jasperse/

What is #MarcoOxford?

- New search functionality enabling search across(!) #manuscripts and #archives at Oxford
- New online descriptions from special collections for #OrientalMSS #EarlyModernMSS #MedievalMSS
- New online #TEI catalogue for #MedievalCharters and #MedievalSeals

FAMOUS (Finding Archives and MSS Across Oxford’s Unique Special Collections) is funded by #MellonFoundation

Project:
https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/about/libraries/our-work/famous

MS Image:
Bodleian Library MS. Pococke 400, fol. 99a
https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/8face4cc-d7dc-4ec6-8315-64b8c171dd76/surfaces/62554176-a1a4-45e8-a165-431570d13125/