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An attractive document, granting the title of Marquess of Santa Maria, to Luigi de Roma of Oristano, and his direct descendants.
![[Patent of Nobility], issued by Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, in favour of Don Ludovico de Roma d'Oristano, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Sardinia, 21st February 1735](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/CKS/2005_CKS_07175_1285_000(095828).jpg?w=1)
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[Patent of Nobility], issued by Charles Emmanuel III, King of Sardinia, in favour of Don Ludovico de Roma d'Oristano, in Latin and Italian, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Sardinia, 21st February 1735
280 x 215mm. 7 leaves, three full-page illuminations, including an equestrian portrait of the grantee, and the grantee's arms, written in black ink in a neat bookhand, endorsed with the signatures of dignitaries and notaries, interleaved with silk guards.
19th-century red velvet
280 x 215mm. 7 leaves, three full-page illuminations, including an equestrian portrait of the grantee, and the grantee's arms, written in black ink in a neat bookhand, endorsed with the signatures of dignitaries and notaries, interleaved with silk guards.
19th-century red velvet
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