Papal indulgence

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Accession number: 
MS M.762
Title: 
Papal indulgence
Created: 
Avignon, France, Mar. 28, 1331.
Description: 
1 leaf : vellum, ill. ; 590 x 720 mm
Provenance: 
K.W. Hiersemann sale, Leipzig, Apr. 1918, no. 377; Arnold Mettler-Specker, St. Gall; his sale (Friedrich Miller & Co., Amsterdam, Nov. 22, 1929, lot 58; illustrated); purchased from Stora in 1930.
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Ms. indulgence granted by the Congregation of Indulgences; written and illuminated in Avignon, France, and dated Mar. 28, 1331.
Decoration: 1 historiated initial U with the head of Christ.
Matted.

Script: 
documentary script
Language: 
Latin
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