Indulgence, to Thomas Bost, 1478 August 13 : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Contributor:

Bost, Thomas, active 15th century, addressee.

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia (Rome, Italy).

Absolution--Catholic Church--Early works to 1800.

Absolution.

Hospitals, Medieval--Early works to 1800.

Hospitals, Medieval.

Genre:

Indulgences.

Manuscripts, Latin -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Samuel Gedge Ltd. (Hanworth, England), catalogue 38 (2025), number 4.

Physical Description:

1 item (1 leaf) : parchment ; 12 x 29 cm

Production:

Draguignan, France, 1478.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 27 Folder 4

Summary:

Indulgence with grant of absolution, once during life and at the point of death, issued to Sir Thomas Bost, vicar of Péret, by Simon, preceptor of a house of the confraternity of the Holy Spirit in Draguignan, diocese of Fréjus, recognizing Bost's admission to the confraternity and donation to the Augustinian Hospital of the Holy Spirit in Sassia (Saxia in Urbe), in Rome. The text is 16 lines of Latin, written in a French Gothic script and dated 13 August 1478 (lines 12-13). The indulgence has a seal tag cut from its lower edge with traces of red wax and an 18th-century inscription in ink on the verso, "an absolution," with the year 1478 and perhaps an amount paid.

Cited as:

Indulgence to Thomas Bost (Misc Mss Box 27 Folder 4). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1561193985