Accession number:
MS M.325.1
Title:
Ad magnum provinciarum Campaneae
Created:
1685.
Binding:
Italian 17th-century red morocco portfolio, elaborately gilt with mosaic inlays having on upper cover the Zandemaria arms and on the lower cover the arms of Agnani; in case with other Zandemaria documents.
Credit:
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1908.
Description:
4 leaves (1 column, 23 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 280 x 200 mm
Provenance:
Jacobus Zandemaria; shelfmark or inventory number 4232 250 6100 handwritten on a bookplate pasted on front paper flyleaf; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1932) by 1908; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes:
Ms. certificate of honorary citizenship for Agnani, Italy, for apostolic delegate Jacobus Zandemaria; written and illuminated in Agnani, and dated Nov. 11, 1685.
Decoration: 1 full-page frontispiece illuminated with the arms of Zandemaria (azure, two batons flowery or, erased, in saltire) surmounted by the violet hat of an apostolic delegate; two scrolls with two mottos; Justus ut palma florebit; Illimis qu limes erit.
Variant Title:
Title on case: Zandemaria documents
Script:
written in Roman letters
Language:
Latin
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