In quarto ignoranter contracto et non confirmato. Collegium Fabrice Basilice Principue Ap[osto]lo[rum] de urbe ...
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
[S.l. : s.n.
ca.1481-1550?]
Title from first lines of text.
A dispensation or licence and indulgence to marry within prohibited decrees.
The word 'Collegium' is in decorated initials.
20 lines of text; type measures 210 x 303 mm.
Similar titles are recorded by the British Library as being printed in Rome, 1530-1550.
O. Jennings, Early Woodcut Initials, reprints the initial 'C' of Collegium (p. 276) and describes the word as 'a line of ornamental 'bullatic' letters' (p. 108). He identifies the printing as German though does not date it.
With two typewritten sheets, one explaining the text and dating it to Germany, c.1481, and one transcribing it.
Not in ISTC
Church history
Marriage