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Diploma of Roman citizenship : manuscript, 1608.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Oversize 19
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- Format:
- Book
- Manuscript
- Author/Creator:
- Marcheselli, Lodovico.
- Language:
- Italian
- Latin
- Genre:
- Calligraphy.
- Coats of arms.
- Diplomas.
- Manuscripts (documents) -- Italy -- Rome -- Seventeenth century (dates CE).
- Penn Provenance:
- Purchased from H. P. Kraus, 1962.
- Physical Description:
- 1 leaf : parchment, color illustrations ; 41 x 68 cm
- Place of Publication:
- 1608.
- Language Note:
- In Latin, description in Italian on reverse.
- Summary:
- Diploma of patrician citizenship to Lodovico Marcheselli, patrician of Rimini, granting him the right to take part in the sessions of the Senate of Rome, dated May 23, 1608, with arms of Rome painted in the center of the upper margin and the red wax seal of the city in a metal box (now incomplete).
- Notes:
- Written in brown and gold ink in a calligraphic hand.
- Cited as:
- U. of Penn. Ms. Oversize 19
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