Diploma, University of Padua

Accession number: 
MS M.552
Title: 
Diploma, University of Padua
Created: 
Padua, Italy, July 4, 1620.
Binding: 
Original openwork red-brown morocco.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description: 
6 leaves (1 column, 19 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 160 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Fernandino Ongania (Venice) in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. diploma; written and illuminated in Padua, Italy; signed by Paulus Gualdus (vicarius generalis) and Daulus Salammo (cancellarius) and dated July 4, 1620.
Decoration: one full-page frontispiece with historiated border (3 historiated medallions, 1 medallion with arms).

Script: 
Roman letters
Language: 
Latin
Century: 
Classification: