Seal-Matrix:
Holywood, abbot's seal
- Owner
- Unknown, abbot of Holywood
- Matrix Shape
- pointed oval
- Image description (obverse)
- Single-sided seal depicting a hand and *vested* arm issuing from clouds on the *sinister*, holding a crozier in front of a tree with three branches.
- Image description (reverse)
- Legend (obverse)
- S’ . . . . ABB[ATIS SAC]RI NEMORIS (“Seal…of the abbot of Holywood”)
- Legend (reverse)
- Catalogue
- A/Holyw/1
- Notes
- According to Stevenson and Wood, this seal dates from c.1264.
Dimensions: 1 ¾ × 1 1/16 in.
SW I, p.184.