Diploma, University of Padua

Accession number: 
MS M.549
Title: 
Diploma, University of Padua
Created: 
Padua, Italy, December 11, 1597.
Binding: 
Original red morocco gilt with seal and ties.
Credit: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description: 
6 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 170 mm
Provenance: 
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania, Venice, in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes: 

Ms. written and illuminated in Padua, Italy, and dated December 11, 1597 on fol. 7.
Scribe: Jacobus Malclavellus.
Also signed by Aloysius Brullinus (Vicarius generalis) and Antonius Crescentinus (Cancellarius).
Decoration: one full-page frontispiece with border decoration.

Script: 
Roman letters
Language: 
Latin
Classification: