Michael 40 was basilikos vestitor and protonotarios of Paphlagonia; owner of a seal dateable to the ninth century: Schlumberger, Sig., p. 298, no. 2 (facsimile; the seal is broken vertically down the middle and one half is lost). Obv.: invocative monogram of Θεοτόκε βοήθει with the legend τῷ σῷ δούλῳ. Rev.: [Μι]χα - [ηλ] βεστ(άρχῃ) - [(καὶ) (πρωτο)ν]οτ(αρίῳ) Πα - [φλ]αγο(νίας). Two other specimens of this seal were published by Schlumberger, "Sceaux" IV, nos. 297 and 298, and a fourth by Laurent, "Sceaux" IV, p. 346, no.8. These establish that the title was basilikos vestitor, not vestarches as Schlumberger originally thought. Seibt assigned the date to around the middle third of the ninth century; see Winkelmann, Rangstruktur, p. 128. The same person probably owned another similar seal, dateable to the second half of the ninth century: Zacos and Veglery 2208. The name and titles read: Μιχαὴλ βασιλικῷ βεστίτορι καὶ πρωτονοταρίῳ Παφλαγονίας. This man is different from Michael 57, the owner of another seal (Konstantopoulos, Stamoules 83, and cf. Laurent, "Bulletin" II, 800 and "Sceaux" IV, p. 346, n. 1).

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