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Add Ch 67089
- Record Id:
- 032-002203912
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002203912
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x0003e6
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100181356228.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 67089
- Title:
- Petition to Celestine III by Vaggia, widow of Bernardo di Bardi, and her sons, to choose a confessor
- Scope & Content:
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Petition to Pope Calixtus III (r. 1455-58) from Vaggia, widow of Bernardo di Bardi, and Alexander and Hilary, their sons, of Florence, asking for permission to choose a confessor, secular or regular, who can celebrate mass despite an interdict or other ecclesiastical censure, using a portable altar, and can absolve them of all sins save those reserved to the Pope, and grant plenary absolution at the hour of their death.
Bearing the autograph Fiat of the Pope and signature of Jacobus Vannucci, bishop of Perugia, Papal Secretary.
Endorsed: in a 17th-century hand, ‘Indulgenzé concéssé a Donna Vaggia, figla del gia Bernardo Bardi et ad Aléssandra suoi figlioli di Firenze’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002203912
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002203912
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100181356228.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1455
- End Date:
- 1458
- Date Range:
- between 1455 and 1458
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 225 mm.
Foliation: f. 1.
Script: Gothic cursive.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
(?)Venice, Italy.
Provenance:
Calixtus III and Jacobus Vannucci, bishop of Perugia, Papal Secretary, 1455-58.
Purchased by the British Museum, Sotheby’s, 11 April 1927, lot 272, for £15.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)