DOCUMENT OF JACOBUS DE MUCCIARELLIS, DATED 23 JUNE 1475 AT ST PETER'S, ROME

single-sheet document with pendant seal, c.320x430mm, vellum, the lower 80mm folded up, 24 lines and 4-line subscription, red wax set in plain wax oval pendant seal in a metal surround, with legend ‘S. AUDITORIS GENERALIS CAMERE APOSTOLICE’ surrounding the Virgin and Child, and Sts Peter & Paul, within an architectural framing, above the pope flanked by two shields with the crossed keys of St Peter, the red wax with one cracked and pieces of the plain wax missing

Lots 45-48 from a private collection, United States. By this document Jacobus de Mucciarellis of Bologna, Doctor of Law, canon, papal chaplain, and auditor, publishes the letter ‘Et si pro ministerio pastoralis …’, printed in H. Lausser, Die Quellen zur Geschichte der Schwestern im Maierhof bis zum Jahre 1550, 2004, p.236. It grants to all members of the Orders of St Francis and and St Clare, that by visiting the altar of the church in which they dwelt, they may, after making their confession, gain the same indulgences as have been granted to those who visit certain churches of Rome, and that the confessor of their choice could absolve them from all their sins, and other privileges.