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 EXAMPLES OF MEDIEVAL SEALS. 263 [Monogrammatic invocation.''] (1) In nomine scae et INDIUIUUAE TllINITATIS ODO CLEMENTIA dI REX : llEOALIS CELSITUNIS* MOS est FIDELES REGNI SUI DONIS MULTIPLICIBUS ATQUE HONORiBus iNGENTiBus (2) lionorare sublimesque efficere : Nouerit igitur omnium fidelium scae di ecclesiae nrorumque ' tarn pracsentium quam & futiirorum sollcrtia. qra " placuit sercnitati nrae quendam fidclem nrm (3) nomine ricbodonem de quibusdam rebus nrae propria&atis lionorare. sunt autem eedem res in pago carnotensi sup fiuuium oduram in uilla gaugiaco mans ' in domi- nicatus ubi aspiciunt (4) mansa triginta unum quos p'dictus ricbodo in beneficium tenet. Hoc" itaque beneficium iam dicto fideli nro iure beneficiario & usu fructuario concedimus quatenns dum quilibet ricbodo & quando (5) quidcm do disponente nxorem duxerit & exinde filium procreaucrint & unus ex illis aduixerit. iam dictum beneficium teneant atque possideant nemine inquia&- ante. Unde hoc nrae celtitudinis ^ (G) praeceptum fieri & memo- rato fideli nro dari iussimus per quod p'cipimus atque iubemus ut ab liodierna die iam dictus fidelis nr ricbodo sup^' scriptum benefi- cium teneat nxorque (7) & filius eius dum aduixerint disponant usu quidem ut dictum est fructuario & iure beneficiarium ' omni tempore uitae suae eo siquidem tenore ut aliquis eorum in nra fidelitate semp (8) & defensione " pro eorum beneficio deseruiat. Et ut haec nrae largitionis concessio ita in omnibus conseru&ur atque uerius credatur anulo nro insigniri iussim. (9) Throhannus' notarius aduicem eblonis recognouit*. L. S. (10) dat xvi kt iut indict vii ^'' Anno secundo regnante domno ^ Several examples of this abbreviated form are engraved in the Nonnaih Trait/- dc Diplomatique, torn, iv., pi. 7'2, p, 60(f. There is no doubt that originally it in- cluded the words hi Cliristi nomine, but by degrees it came to be an unmeaning flourish. See Silvestre's Paheograph//, English edition, vol. ii., pp. 458, 46."). ■' A mistake of the scribe for cdsiludinis, and so printed by Mabillon and Bouquet. ^ et nostrorum, in M. and B. ' Printed mansus in M. and B. " Nos, M. and B. ^ celsitudinis, M. and B. ^ hcneficiario, M. and B. - devotioue, M. and B. •* Read Cro/iannus by Mabillon in his fac-simile, tab. xxxiv. According to the authors of the Gallia Christiana, vol. viii., col. 1427, he is the same with Throannus, Bishop of Orleans. Mabillon, Suppl. p. . VOL. XI. 47, (1704) is of the .same opinion, but at p. 412, of his work (edit. 170.'>) he throws a doubt on this identity, apparently, with- out reason. In the charters of Odo, printed by Bouquet, Throannus appears as Notary or V ice-Chancellor from a.d. 888 to A.D. 892. De Wailly, Elements de Pcdeographie calls him Troannut or Rohannus, which last is erroneous. cellor to Eudes, and abbot both of St. Germain des Pres and St. Denis. He died in 893. See Felibien, Hist, de St. Denis, p. 1 00, and De Wailly, i. p. 224. ^ rccoguovit et subscripsit, M. and B. In Mabillon's fac-simile the word is copied falsely reco'inoiiiets. The words et .snbscrip.vt are, in the original, included in the 2M>aplic or flourishes round the seal, written before the wax was applied. '' In Bouquet, it is conjectured that tiiis is an error for indict, vi.
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 * Ebonis, M. — Eblo or Ebles was chan-