chrysobull

English

Etymology

chryso- +‎ bull

Noun

chrysobull (plural chrysobulls)

  1. (religion) golden bull
    • 2020, A Companion to Byzantine Epistolography, page 376:
      Chrysobulls themselves were adorned with the imperial effigy in the early Palaiologan period. Three extant illuminated chrysobulls are associated with Andronikos II (r. 1282–1328), including one granting and extending the privileges of the Metropolitan of Monembasia in 1301.
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