Other decoration, 1 item: Rough, sketchy scrolling vegetation in pen and ink forms letters in the top margin. A guide letter is visible at the base of each decorative letter. 4.A Western Documents and 4.E Western Documents offer more elegant versions of the same decoration. 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.A Western Documents and 4.E Western Documents. 1 item: Dated October 11, 1730, at Santa Maria Maggiore, in the first year of Clement XII's papacy. Holes in the parchment at the bottom of the document suggest that a seal was once attached. Symbols (possibly finding aides) such as #, O and S appear as marginal notes on the right-hand side of the text. 1 item: Latin. 1 item: Numerous witness signatures appear in the lower margin, including the signature of Cardinal Pierluigi Carafa. Explicit, 1 item: Pope Clement XII gives to Magister Iacobo Amadori, formerly de Lanfredinis, a prebend from St. Peter's Basilica.
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