Beiträge zur Diplomatik Karls IV. und seiner Nachfolger

The Parchment Imperialists: Texts, Scribes and the Medieval Western Empire, c.1250–c.1440

“…53 Only those writings which related to the business of the curial court (G. Hofgericht) were consistently kept apart, written by specialist scribes and issued under their own seal. 54 The signs are that procedures long remained informal, with written instructions for the guidance of those writing in the monarch's name limited or non-existent. 55 There is no certain indication of any registration of outgoing documents before the reign of Henry VII; and not until the time of Rupert of the Palatinate, a century later, do registers survive in substantial number.…”