Takács Imre: Az Árpád-házi királyok pecsétjei (Corpus sigillorum hungariae mediaevalis 1. Budapest, 2012)

Catalogue

Legend between beaded lines, with reversed letters S and N and medial dot punctuation:

STL FAN VS D(E)I GRA(TIA) GEYSE REGIS EIEIVS VNGARIE DALMACIE ATQ(VE)

CROVACIE REX

Originals:

Sopron, Municipal Archives, DL 1.(1162; current location unknown)

Esztergom, Cathedral Chapter Archives, 9-1 -1. (1164-1165, fragment)

Pannonhalma, Benedictine Archabbey Archives, c. 9 N. (1172)

Copies:

Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1875.

Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, VI 12. (Sopron, Municipal archives DL 1)

Horváth 1835, p. 19; Nagy 1889, 1. pp. 2-3; PRTI, p. 85; Bartoniek 1924, pp. 25-26; Donmnovszky 1939, tig. after p. 124; Marsina I, Tab. XVIII/2; Megpecsételt történelem, p. 21; Rainer 2000, pp. 79-80, figs. 15-17; Bodor 2001, p. 5, fig. 14.

16.

Stephen III (1162-1172)

Signet ring

15 x 16 m m (recess of impression)

All that remains of the signet ring impression in the surface of the royal seal is its oval recess, the image having disappeared. It is probably the same signet ring used as a counterseal by Stephen Ill’s successors Béla III and Enteric.

Originals:

Sopron, Municipal Archives, DL 1.(1162; current location unknown) Copies:

Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1875.

Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, VI 12. (Sopron, Városi I.t. DL 1.)

17.

Béla III (1172-1196)

Great seal

diam: 105 mm

Use mentioned around 1177: ... sigillo regali roboratum... (PBFL, VI. E; PRT I, p. 605; CAH, p. 77). The representation of the ruler conforms in composition to the unbroken tradition of Béla Ill’s predecessors since Béla II. Unlike the seals of Géza II and Stephen III, however, which were exact copies of Béla II’s seal image (or used the same matrix), here only the composition and the main details are repeated. The differences size, style and artistic standard are striking. The paleographic characteristics of the legend show a close affinity with Stephen Ill’s seal legend.

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