Granting A Marriage Dispensation

by Papal Bull On Vellum Pope Clement Viii

$950 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Rome: 1597 . 220 x 350 8 5/8 x 13 3/4 . Single column, 25 lines, in a papal chancery hand. Elaborate lettering all across top line of text, especially the first initial, and at lower right corner. Lower margin with several signatures in ink; verso with brief notes in ink; remains of hemp tie for appended seal which has been cut away . Soft creases from folding four vertical, one horizontal , a handful of letters obscured apparently

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