BIB_ID
400148
Accession number
MA 2691.266
Creator
Pamphili, Flaminia, 1651-1709.
Display Date
1688 September 22.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 26.6 x 19.8 cm
Notes
Addressed to a Count.
Watermark: bird over mounts inscribed in a circle (Briquet, 12250), initial "F" at top and an "I" at the bottom.
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Watermark: bird over mounts inscribed in a circle (Briquet, 12250), initial "F" at top and an "I" at the bottom.
Part of the White Collection of Italian Renaissance documents; see collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. Harold T. White, 1969.
Summary
Saying to her recipient that by asking her to be godmother of his newborn daughter, he much obliged her and that she is delighted by it, as well as by the favor of his giving her name to the daughter since with it the child has received the pledge of her enduring affection; greeting her recipient's wife and thanking his sister for the favor granted to her; in the postscript, in her own hand, saying that she is pleased to have established with his family a spiritual relationship that has been in her mind for long time.
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