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INDULGENCE -- Plenary indulgence in Latin, issued by Frater Philippus Mulart on behalf of the Hospital of the Holy Ghost in Rome. [London:] Richard Pynson, [1519 or] 1520.
Oblong broadside, chancery half-sheet (200 x 275mm). Gothic type in two founts, 37 lines, and one line of Roman type, white-on-black woodcut initial 'F' incorporating the dove of the Holy Ghost, white-on-black floral initial 'M', circular woodcut seal for the Confraternity, three-quarter woodcut border made up of about eight blocks, including birds, dargons and flowers on a cribblé background. (Wormholes and a few tears slightly affecting text, brown stains at edges of blank verso from attachment to turn-ins of a contemporary binding in which the indulgence survived as a pastedown.) Modern brown cloth folder in morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: indulgence not executed; Estelle Doheny (leather book-label); sold Christie's New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1413; bought by Lord Kenyon.
ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES KNOWN: the other is in the British Library. An earlier Pynson edition also survives (STC 14077c.91, Bodleian only). The indulgence, addressed to members of the confraternity in the kingdom of England and Ireland, offers remission for all sins except bigamy or murder. Philip Mulart was commissioner-general of the confraternity. STC 14077c.96.
Oblong broadside, chancery half-sheet (200 x 275mm). Gothic type in two founts, 37 lines, and one line of Roman type, white-on-black woodcut initial 'F' incorporating the dove of the Holy Ghost, white-on-black floral initial 'M', circular woodcut seal for the Confraternity, three-quarter woodcut border made up of about eight blocks, including birds, dargons and flowers on a cribblé background. (Wormholes and a few tears slightly affecting text, brown stains at edges of blank verso from attachment to turn-ins of a contemporary binding in which the indulgence survived as a pastedown.) Modern brown cloth folder in morocco-backed slipcase. Provenance: indulgence not executed; Estelle Doheny (leather book-label); sold Christie's New York, 18 October 1988, lot 1413; bought by Lord Kenyon.
ONE OF ONLY TWO COPIES KNOWN: the other is in the British Library. An earlier Pynson edition also survives (STC 14077c.91, Bodleian only). The indulgence, addressed to members of the confraternity in the kingdom of England and Ireland, offers remission for all sins except bigamy or murder. Philip Mulart was commissioner-general of the confraternity. STC 14077c.96.