1614 · Rome
by (PAPAL BULL ON VELLUM). POPE PAUL V.
Rome, 1614. 203 x 319 mm. (8 x 12 5/8"). Single column, 25 lines, in a papal chancery hand.
With braided cloth tie for appended seal (now gone). Elaborate lettering all across top line of text, especially the first (8-line) initial, and at lower right corner. Lower margin with several signatures in ink (behind the fold); verso with brief notes in ink; remains of hemp tie for appended seal (which has been cut away). Three vertical and one horizontal fold creases, faint overall yellowing to verso, possible erasure (correction?) in second line of text, otherwise the page bright and the hand clear.
Addressed to the Archbishop of Naples, this (truncated)
With braided cloth tie for appended seal (now gone). Elaborate lettering all across top line of text, especially the first (8-line) initial, and at lower right corner. Lower margin with several signatures in ink (behind the fold); verso with brief notes in ink; remains of hemp tie for appended seal (which has been cut away). Three vertical and one horizontal fold creases, faint overall yellowing to verso, possible erasure (correction?) in second line of text, otherwise the page bright and the hand clear.
Addressed to the Archbishop of Naples, this (truncated)