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Lead Cloth Seals and Related Items in the British Museum
Stamped lead seals were widely used in the European textile industry during the late-medieval/early-modern period, attached to individual cloths as part of a system of industrial regulation and quality control. The survival of large numbers of the seals, many dating from the period that was crucial to the development of the draperies, was not widely appreciated until recently, even among textile historians. Recent finds have provided a great deal of new information, from which it is possible to learn significant details about the commodity which became England's single most important manufacture. This catalogue publishes over 350 cloth seals and matrices from England and the Continent in the British Museum, and includes an introduction to their use and significance.
Through a Glass Brightly
The twenty-five papers in this volume cover diverse aspects of the material culture of the late Roman, Byzantine and Medieval periods, with particular emphasis on the metalwork and enamel of these times. Individual papers include major reinterpretations of objects in the British Museum's Byzantine collections as well as essays devoted to the Museum's recent acquisitions in this field. The volume celebrates the retirement of David Buckton, for over twenty years the curator of the British Museum's Early Christian and Byzantine collections and the National Icon Collection.
Regarding the Dead
A key publication on the British Museum's approach to the ethical issues surrounding the inclusion of human remains in museum collections and possible solutions to the dilemmas relating to their curation, storage, access management and display.
Westminster Kings and the Medieval Palace of Westminster
This occasional paper records the exhibition of the same name held at the British Museum from November 1995 to January 1996. The publication concentrates on the three best-known buildings of the palace: the Painted Chamber, St. Stephen's Chapel and the Great Hall. Includes photographs, drawings and plans.
Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman
Excerpt from Catalogue of the Finger Rings, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman: In the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum This Catalogue of the Finger Rings, prepared by Mr. F. H. Marshall, marks in some respects a new departure in the series of Departmental publications to which it belongs. It includes not only the rings of this Department, but also those rings which, although Greek or Roman of the classical period, are for any reason to be found in other Departments of the Museum. (see note below.) A large proportion of those here described belongs to the series collected by the late Sir A. W. Franks, and bequeathed by him in 1897. In many instances these rings have designs carved either i...
