Pendant Seals 7

On royal order, the Agria Church Capitulum bestows  property rights to Mkla Demetriu Phylep, over parts of the counties Kysrede and Almas, in the Havas, respectively Newgrad county.

1562, February 22, Agria

Latin in the original, parchment, hanging seal.

BAR, Seal 541

Official seals were larger, sometimes double sided, and used only on official documents. Official seals were more formulaic and represented a persons rank, role and sometimes allegiances. Surviving seals matrices and seal impressions are mostly of the official kind, as the kinds of uses of personal seals are rather ephemeral. It also marks a rapid increase in the formalization of legal documents into charters and agreements.