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[GERMAN MANUSCRIPT.] -- FOUNDATION DEED for Lay Fraternity. Manuscript on vellum
Germany, 24 June 1603
195 x 155mm. 14 leaves plus blanks, initial letter and first line in an elaborately decorated display script, the text in German in a calligraphic gothic hand, subscribed at end by ten signatories. Contemporary black morocco over thin wooden boards, gilt panels and cental medallion, stamped on upper cover with date '1603', brass clasps, gilt edges.
The fraternity is dedicated to the suitably general purposes of the promotion of Christian ideals and the relief of human distress: the deed lays out a number of principles by which the fraternity will be governed. A strikingly elegant work of calligraphy, in a fine contemporary binding.
Germany, 24 June 1603
195 x 155mm. 14 leaves plus blanks, initial letter and first line in an elaborately decorated display script, the text in German in a calligraphic gothic hand, subscribed at end by ten signatories. Contemporary black morocco over thin wooden boards, gilt panels and cental medallion, stamped on upper cover with date '1603', brass clasps, gilt edges.
The fraternity is dedicated to the suitably general purposes of the promotion of Christian ideals and the relief of human distress: the deed lays out a number of principles by which the fraternity will be governed. A strikingly elegant work of calligraphy, in a fine contemporary binding.