Indulgence

Accession number: 
MS M.697
Title: 
Indulgence
Created: 
France, possibly Avignon, July 18, 1343.
Credit: 
Purchase, 1925.
Description: 
1 leaf (22 lines) : vellum, ill. ; 610 x 720 mm
Notes: 

Ms. indulgence; written and illuminated in France, perhaps in Avignon, and dated July 18, 1343.
The indulgence was granted by 3 archbishops and 15 bishops on July 18, 1343; it was confirmed by Bartolomeo Bardi, Bishop of Spoleto, on sept. 16, 1343--Cf. files.
Scribe: Gulielmus de Bononia, Bardi's scribe, signed the manuscript.
Decoration: 1 large historiated initial, 3 marginal bust portraits, cords for seals appended to turned-up lower border.
Matted.

Script: 
diplomatic script and notarial cursive
Language: 
Latin
Classification: