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Title

Instruttione data per ordine di N.S. Papa Gregorio XV. a Monsignor Carafa Vescovo d'Aversa destinato Nuntio all dell Imperatore a di 12 de Aprile 1621

Authors

• Gregory XV, Pope, 1554-1623

Other related names

• Carafa, Carlo, d. 1644, recipient

Call number

Ms. Codex 308
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580925
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580925

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

16--

Place

Italy

Summary

Document of Pope Gregory XV (f. 2r-41v), giving instructions to Carlo Carafa, bishop of Aversa, for his service as a papal ambassador to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor. This appears to be an archival copy rather than an original; was originally part of a larger volume. Preceded by a note regarding the bull of Pope Boniface VIII granting indulgences in Germany (p. 51), on slightly different paper.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption title (p. 53).
   

Extent

41 leaves : 274 x 205 (210 x 130) mm. bound to 286 x 210 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (modern paper) + 41 + i (modern paper); 51-132, contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corner. This manuscript was originally part of a larger volume.

Support

Paper

Binding

Boards, probably 18th or 19th century. Paper badly damaged due to oxidation of ink; text rendered difficult to read in many places. Edges of many leaves frayed. Various stains.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines.

Script

Written in a cursive script by a single hand, with document concerning Boniface VIII written in a second, possibly later hand.

Provenance

• Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1958.
   

Subjects topical

• Catholic Church--Foreign relations--Holy Roman Empire
• Indulgences--Germany--Early works to 1800
• Papal nuncios--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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