[EPISCOPAL INDULGENCE]. [BREATHING] Lettre... - Lot 5 - Ader

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[EPISCOPAL INDULGENCE]. [BREATHING] Lettre... - Lot 5 - Ader
[EPISCOPAL INDULGENCE]. [BREATHING] Lettre d'indulgence collective In Latin, illuminated charter (unfinished) on parchment (illuminated collective letter of indulgence) Large initial U historiated with three full-length figures: Nimbed monk with his attribute (cœur ?); Virgin with throning Child; Saint Catherine. France, Avignon, circa 1330-1340 (?) Dimensions: 490 x 675 mmLarge document on parchment, gouache and tempera, brown ink, text (textualis formata) traced in graphite, at the bottom of the document twelve (12) lakes with seals hanging from red wax, some seals missing, others incomplete . Document unfinished. Incipit of the text (invocation and part of the inscription), "Universis sancte matris ecclesie filiis ad quos presentes literes pervenerint. Nos miseracione divinia Guillelmus Antibarensis archiepiscopus Franciscus [...] Petrus Montismarani episcopus ... Philippus Salonensis episcopus Bartholomeus ... Salgonus Aleriensis episcopus Andreas Coronensis episcopus [...]". This document is an astonishing unfinished witness of an episcopal indulgence, of the type made at the court of Avignon, in favour of an unknown foundation. It is to be compared with other similar documents kept in public collections, all painted on the same model, made from the thirteenth century, and which flourished in the fourteenth century. The figures in the historiated initial are painted without gold, almost like frescoes, with characteristic opaque tones in gouache (green, dark red, grey and ochre). Some of the prelates mentioned are identifiable, and are known to have sat at the papal court of Avignon under the pontificate of Benedict XII (1334-1342), such as Guillaume Adam, Archbishop of Antivari in Albania (Montenegro) (1324-1341); Philippus, Bishop of Salona (Amphissa) (1332-1343); Andreas, Bishop of Coron (Peloponnès) (1333-1346). An indulgence (from the Latin indulgere, "to grant") i
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