Download or read book History of Scottish Seals, Vol. 2 written by Walter de Gray Birch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Scottish Seals, Vol. 2: From the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century, With Upwards of Two Hundred Illustrations Derived From the Finest and Most Interesting Examples Extant; Ecclesiastical and Monastic Seals of Scotland William Wisehead, 1273-9, imitates the Crucifixion scene employed by his predecessor, with variant details. There is also extant a seal of this ecclesiastic before his elevation to the See. It bears the curious allegorical design of a fox courant in front of a tree of three branches on which two birds are perched. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.