title: West european seal matrices from collection of Nicolay Likhachev
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metadata.value: Nosova, Ekaterina I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:34:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-07-14T11:34:52Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Nosova E. I. West european seal matrices from collection of Nicolay Likhachev. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 2, pp. 267–276.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/ spbu02.2017.204
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6773
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article discusses the corpus of West European seal matrices kept at the Scientific Archives of St.
  Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Previously, they were part of a
  collection of academician N. P. Likhachev (1862–1936). In the course of attribution we have found
  three matrices which seem to be absolutely identical to those from the museum collection in the town
  of Bassano del Grappa, Italy, which previously belonged to the Count Antonio Maria Luigi Calzamatta
  (1827–1905). This enabled a clarification of the earlier history of the two collections, which proved
  a genealogical connection with the collection of Count Giovanni Lazzara (1621–1690). This collection
  was so well known that Christina, Queen of Sweden, wanted to buy it. Evidently after the death
  of Giovanni Lazzara collection was sold to the Cabinet of Louis XIV (The Cabinet of medals of the
  French National Library). However, this theory is not justified. In another version the collection was
  bought by Nicolas-Joseph Foucault (1643–1721), politician and honorary member of the Academy of
  Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres. After changing several owners, Foucault’s collection came in 1727 in
  the cabinet of medals, except the seals. At the same time, some of the matrices from Lazzara’s collection
  are kept nowadays in the Bottacin Museum in Padua. Most likely, the seals did not leave Italy, and
  N. P. Lihachev acquired his matrices there, but not in France. Since he visited Italy often in person,
  there are no traces of this acquisition in his archives.
  A brief excursus in the history of the St. Petersburg collection revealed that some of the matrices
  have survived in two or even three copies. Since a matrix is with only rare exceptions a unique object,
  the need to verify the authenticity of the matrices became evident. The matrix of Ottokar II, King of
  Bohemia, was chosen for analysis. Based on the comparison with available images of his stamps, measurements
  and the study of the reverse of the matrix, it was concluded that we are probably dealing
  with a copy made in the second half of the 19th century by scientists or antiques dealers. Refs 39.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The research was supported by Russian Foundation for the Humanities (RGNF) (project No 14-01-00088).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: archival sciences
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: collections
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: antiques trade
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sigillography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: seal matrix
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ottokar II
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. P. Likhachev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: falsification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: West european seal matrices from collection of Nicolay Likhachev
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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