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  • Author: Innocent IX, Pope, 1519-1591 ** Language: Italian. Incipit: M. Beatissimo ha' giusta causa di dolersi di me
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Time Period
  • November 18, 1571
Place of Origin
  • Italy
Description
  • Letter regarding the outcome of a court case signed by Giovanni Antonio ?Facchinetti (1519-1591), the Bishop of Nicastro, on November 18, 1571. The Bishop was named Pope Innocent IX on October 29, 1591 and died on December 30th of that same year. Evidence on dorse that the letter was once sealed with reddish brown wax.
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_034
Keywords
  • Document
  • Italy
  • Christian
Title
  • Letter, signed by the future Pope Innocent IX
Author
  • Innocent IX, Pope, 1519-1591
Physical Description
  • Physical type: Document. Support material: Paper (material). Extent: 1. Watermarks: Unidentified, resembles a centaur carrying a flag, surrounded by a circle, and topped by the letter R in a smaller circle. Page dimensions (in mm): 283 x 210. Written area (in mm): 105 x 170. Script: Documentary. Layout: One column, unruled, eight lines. Decoration: None.
Language
  • Italian
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Source Metadata Identifier
  • smc_018_034
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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