ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT -- Grant of Citizenship, illuminated manuscript on vellum, granting Pompeio de Scarlatti, Abbot of Santa Maria, the Citizenship of Messina in Sicily, 29th January 1676, 230 x 175 mm., 6 leaves (last blank), the first leaf with wide gold and mauve borders containing a large miniature of the Virgin and Child and 4 roundels of Saints, the second 3 Sicilian armorials, within a similar border, contemporary vellum over paper boards, silk doublures (worn).