Regarding its structure, according to archivist László Fejérpataky, the diploma shows primitive, undeveloped forms: "It is introduced by arenga; after the promulgation formula, the king speaks subjective (ego).

According to historian László Koszta, his title did not denote an ecclesiastical position (although celibacy was not universal among the clerics in Hungary, as Pope Alexander III complained), rather, he might have been a royal official at the head of an area or the superior of a hospes (foreign-origin) community.

In contrast, Roger of Torre Maggiore emphasizes in his work Carmen miserabile that Béla IV (r. 1235–1270) was that king, who ordered that the nobles "could not open their suits in his court and speak to him personally, but had to submit petitions to the chancellors and expect judgment in their cases from them".

[4] Thereafter, the so-called "literacy topos" spread out the Hungarian historiography (e.g. Elemér Mályusz, László Mezey and Bernát L. Kumorovitz), then also in fine arts (the fresco-secco painted by Andor Dudits) and secondary and higher education in history in the 20th century.

Slovak historian Richard Marsina (1965) classified the arenga to the type of oblivio memoria, which contrasts the transience of human memory with the permanence of writing and was widespread in the royal charters of Hungary at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries, but similar ones can be found in France and Denmark from the same period.

[6][7] Hungarian historian András Kubinyi argued in his 1975 that, in the list of witnesses, only members of the local elite appear, not holders of national dignities, which would be expected in the case of a comprehensive chancellery reform.

In addition, a longer period of time – several months or years – passed between the discussion (actum) and writing (datum) of the case, which is primarily justified by the fact that the drafter of the document, Paul, a former notary, is already listed as the incumbent bishop of Transylvania in the royal charter.

According to the historian, there is no need to look for normative (literal) content in the text that dictates the writing of private law, since the arenga can basically be derived from the practice of the European diploma formulation, and it can even refer to the memories of a clergyman of Walloon-origin from Pécs from his homeland.

According to historian László Koszta, the late Marcellus and his widow Froa belonged to that hospes ("guest") community of Walloon, Flemish or Lorrain origin, who settled down in Pécs and the surrounding area in the 1160–1170s.