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XI.—On the Annulus Piscatoris, or Ring of the Fisherman

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2012

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To keep up the remembrance of the poor Fisherman of Galilee the Roman Pontiffs adopted the custom of sealing their private letters with a signet-ring which bore the device of St. Peter seated in a boat and drawing a net from the waters.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1866

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page 138 note a D. Bonomi, quoted by Boldetti, p. 506.

page 138 note b De Re Dipl. ii. c. 14, § 11.

page 138 note c De Sigillis, p. 29.

page 138 note d Platina de Vitis Pont., in Vita Clem. IV.

page 139 note a Dissertazioni d’ Istoria Pontificia e Canonica. Pistoja.—Tom. i. p. 146.

page 139 note b Brief dated 15 April, 1448. Annuaire de la Société de l'Histoire de France.

page 139 note c De Re Dipl. ii. c. 14, § 11. Ad Ann. 1457, No. 46.

page 139 note d Ap. Bolland. in tom. iii. Apr. p. 520, in processu de Sanctitate B. Jacobi.

page 139 note e Lazeri, Miscell. Bib. Coll. Rom. 1784, i. p. 365, 371, 372, 374, 406, 424, &c.

page 140 note a Gualterutii, Ven. Coll. Sec. Apos. Privilegia et Jura. Romæ, fol. 1583.

page 140 note b Notitia Cardinalatus. Romæ, 1653, de Secr. Apost. c. xxii. p. 216.

page 140 note c See Cancellieri, , “Notizie sopra l'Origine e l'Uso dell’ Anello Piscatorio,” &c. Rome, 1823, who quotes for the notices that follow, “Atti Ceremoniali del P. Gio. Battista Gattico,” p. 448–463.Google Scholar

page 141 note a “Duo clerici cameræ ad plumbum deputati Eminentissimo Decano pro Sacro Collegio recipienti præsentarunt genuflexi sigillum in quo insculptum erat nomen Innocentii X. et decesserunt. Sumpsit sigillum D. Phœbæus et omnibus Cardinalibus singulatim ostendit, et sumpto malleo et scalpro cum parva incudine quæ conservabatur in camerâ contiguâ, delevit et cassavit ab eo nomen supradictum, et sic deletum et cassatum coram omnibus Cardinalibus singulatim ostendit et retinuit apud se.”—Servantius.