Diploma of Doctorate in Canon and Civil Law
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Parchment, i contemporary paper flyleaf + 8 fols. + i contemporary paper flyleaf, 235 x 170 mm (180 x 130 mm), 15 long lines, ruled in hardpoint.
BINDING: Contemporary, painted and gold-tooled Italian red morocco over pasteboards, sewn on three supports, remains of four red silk ties.
CONTENTS: fols. 2r-8r Diploma of Doctorate in Canon and Civil Law granted to Francisco Magioli de Monte San Vito on 8 November 1645, signed by three witnesses, Constantius Peregrinus, Franciscus Paleotti and Joannes Baptista Ramandinus (fol. 8r).
DECORATION: Two historiated initials in gold ink on plain parchment: fol. 2r [G, 6 ll.] St Francis receiving the stigmata, with a half-page heading surrounded by foliage, showing the Virgin and Child in glory, and including IN CHRISTI NOMINE AMEN written in gold ink Italic capitals; fol. 4r [C, 5 ll.] St Anthony of Padua kneeling before an open book, with the Christ Child descending from clouds to offer him a spray of lilies.
ORNAMENTATION: Full-page framed armorial achievement of the Magioli de Monte San Vito. On a triple mount an olive tree proper surmounted by a dove, in the canton a star or with a comet’s tail, in the crest a dove and a scroll with the motto MELIORA; all pages are framed within triple ruled lines.
History note: Made for Francisco Magioli de Monte San Vito (in the Marche region) in 1645; acquired by James Stewart Henderson (d.1933) in June 1887 (date pencilled on his armorial bookplate inside the upper cover); his bequest, 1933.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart
Support composed of parchment
Accession number: MS 354
Primary reference Number: 183611
Project ID: 3511
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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