sphragistics

The study of seals is known as sigillography or sphragistics.

Sphragistics, or the science of seals (Gk.

Written genres: sphragistics, numismatics, epigraphy, paleography (personal letters, documents, literature).

He has also edited a number of important journals and primary sources, including works on medieval Russian law, sphragistics and epigraphy, archaeology and history.

He was the professor of diplomatics, sphragistics and heraldry at the Bonn University from 1822 and was one of the founders of the modern scientific heraldry.

The Zoological, Geological, Mineralogical Museums together with those of Numismatics, Sphragistics and Archeology are stimulating the interests of students.

Abandoned subjects include sphragistics and iconography, which were dealt with at Paris, and vexillology, which was to have been one of the themes at Congresses after Bern.

The remaining rooms describe how oil has been used in a wide range of sectors: ritual usage in Christianity, Islam and Judaism; usage in sport, food, scents and ointment preparation; sphragistics, weaving and wood-processing.

For instance, English allows at most three consonants in an onset, but among native words under standard accents (and excluding a few obscure learned words such as sphragistics), phonemes in a three-consonantal onset are limited to the following scheme: