Inventaire des sceaux de la Flandre, recueillis dans les dépôts d'archives, musées et collections particulières du département du Nord
A catalogue of medieval seals of Flanders, compiled by the archivist Germain Demay and printed in Paris in 1873 by the Imprimerie nationale for scholars and archive researchers. Its plates are sepia photographs of impressions, mostly pointed-oval seals showing standing or enthroned figures, saints, and Gothic architectural canopies, with inscriptions around the edges. A designer might take the heraldic oval framing, the dense Gothic tracery, and the lettered borders as models for emblems or period-styled ornament.
