Other decoration, 1 item: Elegant scrolling vegetation in pen and ink forms letters in the top margin, and there are a few pen flourishes. Number of scribes, 1 item: 1. Layout, 1 item: The parchment is pricked on both sides and dry-point ruled.
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Manuscript note: The style is similar to 4.D Western Documents and 4.E Western Documents. 1 item: Dated at Santa Maria Maggiore, April 12, 1734, the fourth year of Clement XII's papacy. Clement XII's seal is attached with a white cord. The obverse depicts Sts. Peter and Paul with a cross and the reverse gives the pope's name: "Clemens XII Papa". 1 item: Latin. Explicit, 1 item: Pope Clement XII appoints Iacobo, Cardinal Deacon de Lanfredinis, to head Santa Maria in Portico in both spiritual and temporal matters.
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