Pieczęcie Wojciecha Jastrzębca
Wojciech Jastrzębiec’s sigilla

Author(s): Piotr Pokora
Subject(s): History
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The number of all types of the sigilla of Wojciech Jastrzębiec (both those which are featured in original impressions and the ones which are only mentioned indirectly in the sources or about whose existence one may merely conjecture) should be put at ten, perhaps eleven. This is ample testimony about their role, their significance, and the importance which Jastrzębiec attached, at the various stages of his life and career, to this form of the manifestation of his social position and the offices that he held. His great sigilla were works of aurarian art. As far as the matters of the chancery practice are concerned, it seems that the principles of impressing a sigillum according to the rank of a document were observed, albeit inconsistently in some cases.

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