[Brief addressed to the clergy and civil officials of the diocese of Mainz, sanctioning the election of Adolph, Count of Nassau, to the see of Mainz, issued 21 August 1461].

Accession number: 
PML 77527
Author: 
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Published: 
[Mainz] : [Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer], [1461, after 21 Aug.]
Description: 
[1] leaf ; 28.5 cm (Broadside)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1982.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC. GW titles as "Bulla against the election of Diether von Isenberg as Archbishop of Mainz."
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Fust and Schoeffer's type 3:91G.
1 leaf, printed on one side only.
Paper format: Chancery full sheet.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 40.5 cm, trimmed.
PML copy on ordinary paper.

Binding: 
Not bound, in folder.
Variant Title: 

Breve "Cum nos hodie"

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Watermark: Bull's head with cross on vertical bar.
Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), Incunabula Typographica (1900), no. 1149 (cited in DeRicci, Mayence, 74.3 as having been acquired by Rosenthal in Paris in 1900), Catalogue d'incunables (1906), no. 2975, and Einblattdrucke, Kat. 92 (1930), no. 4; Harry Richard Creswick (1902-1988); his sale, Sotheby's London, 26 April 1982, lot 474, purchased post-sale by Morgan (via Lathrop C. Harper); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in April 1982.
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