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Diploma delivered by the University of Padua to Balthasar Manfredus, Doctor Utriusque Juris.

Accession number
MS M.549
Object title
Diploma delivered by the University of Padua to Balthasar Manfredus, Doctor Utriusque Juris.
Display Date
December 11, 1597.
Created
Padua, Italy, December 11, 1597.
Binding
Original red morocco gilt with seal and ties.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
6 leaves (1 column, 22 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 220 x 170 mm
Provenance
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania, Venice, in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. written and illuminated in Padua, Italy, and dated December 11, 1597 on fol. 7.
Scribe: Jacobus Malclavellus.
Also signed by Aloysius Brullinus (Vicarius generalis) and Antonius Crescentinus (Cancellarius).
Decoration: one full-page frontispiece with border decoration.
Script
Roman letters
Language
Latin
Classification