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Letter, from Bishop of Cremona, later Pope Gregory XIV Public Deposited

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  • Author: Gregory XIV, Pope, 1535-1591 ** Language: Latin. Incipit: beatissime pater ecclesia cremonensis ab imemorabili
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Time Period
  • Circa 1571
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • Letter from Niccolò Sfondrati, Bishop of Cremona (1560-1590) and future Pope Gregory XIV (1590-1591). The letter is unsigned and possibly a draft, as there are multiple corrections throughout.
Call Number
  • qBX850 C36
Contributors
  • Records created or enhanced by the Peripheral Manuscript Project’s Description team, led by Dr. Elizabeth K. Hebbard and Dr. Sarah L. Noonan.
Source Identifier
  • smc_018_031
Keywords
  • Document
  • Italy
  • Christian
Title
  • Letter, from Bishop of Cremona, later Pope Gregory XIV
Author
  • Gregory XIV, Pope, 1535-1591
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Document. Support material: Paper (material). Extent: 1. Watermarks: Similar to Briquet 14474 (Bergamo 1567) produced in Venice. Page dimensions (in mm): 305 x 201. Written area (in mm): 270 x 172. Script: Documentary. Layout: One column, unruled, twenty-six lines. Decoration: None.
Language
  • Latin
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • smc_018_031
Date Created
  • 16th century
Owning Institution
  • Saint Mary’s College Cushwa Leighton Library Rare Book Room. Notre Dame, IN.
Provenance
  • Included in a nineteenth century collection of Papal Signatures (call number: qBX850 C36) gifted to Saint Mary's College in March or April of 1944 by a group of anonymous donors. Once part of a two-volume set. The second volume is held by the University of Notre Dame.

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