Diploma1598.latManuscript on parchment of a Diploma for a doctorate in Theology accorded to Iosephus Prudentius from the University of Padua, June 1598In Latin.Script: Written by Franciscus de Oddis, in an elegant italic.On f. 1r, a full vine-scroll border, in purple ink with grapes and highlights in gold, outlined in double purple lines; a 5-line initial, gold, with purple and gold vines. Headings and names of persons in humanistic bookhand or square capitals, in gold.Binding: Nineteenth century. Brown leather wrapper, gold-tooled.