Michael Dei gratia Imperator Caesar semper Augustus..
MichaelVII Palaeologus,Emperor of the East,1224-1282.
Romae, : Ex Typographia Camerae Apostolicae.,
1603..
A forgery, according to Desmond Seward, 'Italy's Knights of St George' (Gerrards Cross, 1986), drawn up in the mid-sixteenth century to support the Order's claim to Byzantine origin and the Imperial pretensions of the Venetian branch of the Angelus family.
Caption title.
Imprint from colophon.
'Dat. in Aula Nostri Imperialis Palatij Constantinopolis, Anno ... Millesimo ducentesimo nonagesimotertio, Mensis Aprilis, die XXV. [25 April 1293] Imperij verò Anno trigesimotertio.'
Woodcut decoration.
A forgery, according to Desmond Seward, 'Italy's Knights of St George' (Gerrards Cross, 1986), drawn up in the mid-sixteenth century to support the Order's claim to Byzantine origin and the Imperial pretensions of the Venetian branch of the Angelus family.
Sacro militare ordine Costantiniano di S. Giorgio
Military religious orders
Angelus family
Comnenus family