A PAPAL MANDATE ISSUED TO THE OVERSEER OF A GERMAN CHURCH

by Papal Bull

$4,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

Rome: 10 August 1502 . 305 x 513 mm. 12 x 20 1/4 . Single column, 29 lines in a papal documentary script, plus signatures at bottom. First line of text much larger and with elongated letters and calligraphic flourishes. WITH THE ORIGINAL LEAD SEAL AND HEMP TIES ATTACHED. Verso with several ink notations in different contemporary and later hands, recto with a long ink line in one margin and the letter A in the other, both by a later hand. Several

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