Pendant Seals 2

Louis the Great, King of Hungary, Poland, Dalmatia ... send to the ecclesiastical Convent of Lelesz its mandate for the introduction of Balk, Drag and Ioan, the sons of Sas, former prince of Moldavia, to the estate Cuhnea and what it is pending of and the estates Bo-cicoi, Biserica Alba, Taras and Bustina. The introduction will be without contradiction and also will distinguished the borders of the estates Ieud, Viseu, Borsa.

Latin in the original; parchment, pendant seal.

BAR, Seal 532

In the Middle Ages, one of the most common ways to proclaim the authenticity of a document was to attach a seal to it. Seals were images carved into a matrix which, when pressed into a substance like warm wax, left bi-hind an inverse of the picture on the seal. The image, and often a legend written around it, identified the author of the document and was meant to prevent people from forging or tampering with official correspondence.