Harvard University, MS Typ 418

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS10548

Shelfmark:

MS Typ 418

Title:

Letter from Pope Innocent IV to the Abbot and chapter of the Monastery of St. Berthin

Author:

Catholic Church. Pope (1243-1254 : Innocent IV)

Innocent IV WIKIDATA

Date:

1248.

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : vellum ; 19 x 22 cm. +

Note:

Dated Lyon 7 March (non. Martii) in the 5th year of the pope's pontificate.
Written in a chancery hand in long lines in brown ink.
The seal shows "Innocentius PP IIII" on the obverse and the apostles Peter and Paul on the reverse. It is laced into the bottom of the document on a braided red and yellow cord.
Mounted and matted within a cloth folder, 36 x 35 cm.
In a cloth slipcase, 37 cm.
Purchased with the fund for Printing & Graphic Arts given by Philip Hofer, 1956.

Keyword:

bulls (papal records)

leaden seals

Manuscripts, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990101103060203941/catalog

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:17663654

https://iiif.lib.harvard.edu/manifests/ids:17663655

Holding Institution:

Harvard University