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  • In diplomatics: The Roman and Byzantine empire

    …Roman imperial chancery, called the Office of Letters (ab epistulis), was subdivided into a Greek and a Latin department. In the 5th century four letter offices existed, all under the ultimate control of the magister officiorum (“master of offices”): the scrinium epistolarum (“letter office”) handled mainly foreign, legal, and administrative…

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