Kujbusné Mecsei Éva - Mykhailo Mishuk (szerk.): Bereg vármegye pecsétjei - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai II. Közlemények 47. (Nyíregyháza, 2017)

Picture З10 - For Master Pál Lachk, prefect of Bereg county evidentiary letter from Master János, son of Bogama and the four sheriffs with their seals by sealing in 1364

Picture 4" - With the authority of Bereg county edited this paper with five rings seal

The documents where verified by the signer rings of the prefect, vice-prefect and the sheriffs.

Sometimes seals were impossible to identify, so Act 2 of 1435 and Act 34 of 1499 stipulated that sheriffs were supposed to have and use clearly identifiable seals.10 11 10 11 12 Fdunyad county was the first to use the coat of arms of the Fiunyadi family. Later in 1498 Wlady'slaw I. granted Somogy county the right to use a county seal.

The use of the county seal instead of the individual seals of the dignitaries present at the issuing ceremony of the document did not become common during the period of the Ottoman occupation. Article 62 of an act of 1550 therefore urged that “every county should have a seal of its own’ 13. The template was Somogy county.

10 MNL OL DL 52017. Kállay család (Q_93) 1364. április 20. http://archives.hungaricana.hu/hu/charters/55623/?query=SZO%3D%28bereg%29 (accessed 2 March 2016)

11 MNL OL DL 82578. Zichy család, zsélyi (Q_206) 1521. augusztus 12. http://archives.hungaricana.hu/hu/charters/295275/?query=SZO%3D%28bereg%29 (accessed 2 March 2016)

12 Szabolcs vármegye címeres pecsétje, 1836. Ed. Éva Kujbusné Mécséi. Nyíregyháza, 2000.

13 http://1000ev.hu/index.php?a=38cparam=2008 (accessed 2 March 2016)

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