Royal Chancellery, december 1210
Privilege of Federico II,
King of Sicily,
represented in the pendent seal parchment manuscript,
red sealing wax inside wooden case (41,3×25,4 cm; seal Ø 5,6 cm)
Palermo, Diocesan Historical Archive, Tabularium, parch. I, 40

Frederick of Swabia, just sixteen years old, having come of age, is represented on the throne in the precious red wax seal, holding in his right hand the scepter (labarum) and in his left hand the globe surmounted by the cross.
The inscription attests to his authority: FRIDERICUS DEI GRATIA REX SICILIE DUCATUS APULIE ET PRINCIPATUS CAPUE (Frederick by the grace of God King of Sicily, of the Duchy of Apulia and of the Principality of Capua).
The throne, the open crown surmounted by three large pearls with pendants and the rich Byzantine-style robe recall the mosaics of Palermo and Monreale (cat. 15, 16) where the coronations of the sovereigns Roger II and William II of Hauteville, respectively his grandfather and great-uncle, are depicted.
Frederick, who will be crowned emperor with his wife Constance of Aragon only in 1220 by the Pope, grants to the Cathedral of Palermo represented by Archbishop Parisio, in suffrage of the souls of the previous kings and emperors who are buried there, two new canonical prebends (revenues for the benefit of as many canons) of three hundred tarì each, in addition to the twenty that were already existing, to be charged on the annual revenues of the royal tuna fisheries of Palermo.