Note 047 A compound of vermilion and cinnabar, which marks the Imperial diplomas from Leo I. (A.D. 470) to the fall of the Greek empire, (Bibliotheque Raisonnee de la Diplomatique, tom. i. p. 504 - 515 Lami, de Eruditione Apostolorum, tom. ii. p. 720 - 726.)]

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