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Diploma delivered by the University of Padua to Nicolaus Azzalinus, Doctor Canonum Sacrarumque.

Accession number
MS M.550
Object title
Diploma delivered by the University of Padua to Nicolaus Azzalinus, Doctor Canonum Sacrarumque.
Display Date
February 8, 1597.
Created
Padua, Italy, February 8, 1597.
Binding
Original red morocco gilt.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
6 leaves (1 column, 20 lines), bound : vellum, ill. ; 230 x 160 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 February 8, 1597 on fol. 6.
Scribe: Jacobus Malclavellus.
Also signed by Alexander Terentius (Vicarius generalis) and Antonius Crescentinus (Cancellarius).
Decoration: one full-page frontispiece with historiated border
Script
Roman letters
Language
Latin
Classification