[279] aranzada	an areal measure of land, equivalent to 0.447 hectares or a little over an acre.
arenga	the opening preamble of a charter.
aureus	a gold coin assumed to have been imported from Islamic Spain, where such coins were termed dirhems or mithqals.
carta abierta	a letter-patent.
chirographum	an indenture; hence, any deed recording an agreement between two or more parties.
chrismon	the Chi-Rho monogram which sometimes precedes the opening preamble of a charter
concejo	the local community assembled to trasact business; hence, a village or urban council; Latin, concilium.
dispositio	the matter of a charter (as opposed to its formal diplomatic elements).
duplarius	a member of a cathedral chapter who performed, as a substitute, the duties of one of the principal dignitaries.
fonsadera	a money-payment in commutation of military service.
francesa	the post-Carolingian miniscule script of France (as opposed to the Visigothic script of Spain).
fuero de población	charter issued by a lord to a group of settlers, defining rights and obligations: in an urban context a fuero means a bourough-charter.
iantar	a lord's right to hospitality at the expense of his tenants; a money-payment in lieu thereof.
levita	a deacon.
pesquisador	one commissioned by the king to conduct a royal pesquisa, or inquest.
portionarius	a minor canon (?).
prestimonium	a tenancy, fief or benefice.
privilegio rodado	a royal diploma authenticated by the king's rueda (q.v.).
repoblación	re-settlement, normally of lands conquered from the Moors.
repoblador	a settler.
[280] rueda	a device in the form of two concentric circles containing a legend, derived from the rota of the papal chancery, used in Spain for the authentication of certain classes of beneficial document (cf. privilegio rodado).
señorío	a territorial lordship, its holder normally enjoying certain fiscal and judicial immunities.
signum	a written device occurring in various forms (e.g. a monogram, a rueda) used for the authentication of documents.
sur double queue	sealing on a parchment tag inserted through a slit in a fold at the foot of the document.
sur simple queue	sealing on a tongue of parchment cut horizontally at the foot of the document but not severed from it.
tenente	the governor of a territory below the crown; the holder of a prestimonium (q.v.).
tercia	the third part of a tithe.
terciarius	an episcopal official charged with the duty of collecting the tercia (q.v.). due to the bishop.
votos de Santiago	an annual render of produce from throughout Christian Spain, claimed by the see of Santiago de Compostela on the authority of documents forged or interpolated c. 1140.
votum	any form of offering or render.