Takács Imre: Az Árpád-házi királyok pecsétjei (Corpus sigillorum hungariae mediaevalis 1. Budapest, 2012)
Catalogue
40. First double seal 1272-1276 diám: 91 mm Variation: reverse majuscule B on impressions between 1273 and 1276 (e.g. on a charter issued on 9 July 1273: MOL DL 71845; or from 9 January 1276: MOL DL 896) on the front, beside the throne on the left of the king figure, and on the reverse beside the shield, on the heraldic right. The annex to György Fray’s book (Pray, Tab. VI/3) shows the double cross of the coat of arms on the reverse with an interwoven wreath, probably mistaking it for one of the King’s later seals. The wreath does not appear on the known impressions of Ladislaus IV’s first seal. On the front, two-line majuscule legend without punctuation between beaded lines, outer line: S(IGILLUM) LADISLAI DEI GRACIA UNGARIE DALMACIE CROVACIE RAME S inner line: ERUIE GALICIE LODO / MERIE CUMANIEQ(UE) REGIS On the reverse, framed in beaded lines: SIGILLVM LADISLAI TERCII QVINTI STEPHANI REGIS FILII Original: Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, DL 71845, 896. C lopies: Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1904. Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, VI 39. Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History, inv. no. 231. Pray, Tab. VI/3; Török 1859, II, table IV; Szabó 1880, pp. 96-97; Szentpétery 1923, p. 313; Szentpétery 1930, p. 114; Bodor 2001, p. 8, fig. 24. Ladislaus IV (1272-1290) 41. Ladislaus IV (1272-1290) Second double seal 1276-1286 diam: 107 mm The double cross on the reverse repeats, in more ornate form, the coat of arms on Béla IV’s second double seal. On the front, the double cross on the orb held by the king may be traced back to a similar detail on the seals of Emcric and Stephen V. Variation: by early 1277 at the latest, a star-shaped distinguishing mark had been added to both sides of the matrix: beside the orb on the front and on the heraldic left of the shield on the back. Also appearing on both sides of impressions from 1277 onwards is a “ I ” sign. Imre Szentpétery also observed a crescent-moon sign near the image of the king, and considered it to be a check sign added later together with the star. Certainly the triple tendril above the king’s right hand, rising from the animal head on the throne, is seen on impressions from 1277 onwards. This part of the seal has not survived on fragments known from 1276, and so there is no evidence that this detail was engraved later. The “■ I ” sign which Szenpétery thought to be later (1278) in fact appears on 1277 signs together with the star. The distinguishing signs added in 1277 may have been related to the confirmation 179
