Granting A Marriage Dispensation

by Papal Bull On Vellum Pope Paul V

$1,500 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

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

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