Indulgence Scroll

Description

Title: Indulgence Scroll
Published / Created: 4 [late 15th century] and s. XV^^4
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment roll, unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late 15th century. Includes Prayers to be said for a pardon of 32,055 years; and Prayer based on the measurement of the length of the body of Christ. The texts are written on one side of a roll (dorse is blank).
Description: Note of a 16th-century owner at the end of the roll: An Indulgence of Innocent VI ca. 1352.
Parchment roll, unevenly trimmed at top and bottom, composed of three membranes segments glued together, the third an addition of the late fifteenth century.
Extent: f. 1 : parchment ; 1515 x 165 (1391 x 141) mm.
Extent of Digitization: Completely digitized
Language: English
Latin

Format: mixed material
Genre: Illuminated manuscripts
Indulgences (documents)
Manuscripts
Miniatures (Illuminations)
Scrolls (information artifacts)
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Innocent VI, Pope, d. 1362
Subject (Topic): Indulgences--England--Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Citation: Indulgence Scroll. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 410.

Orbis Record: 9734851
OID: 10269867
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.ms410.htm