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Liber Decretorum Manuscript Vatican Sacred Congregation 1699
USD 2359.14
Vatican 1699-1700. Contemporary leather binding, 4to [approx. 22x18cm]. Manuscript in brown ink. End papers with the old library stamp of the Frauenberg convent in Fulda. Vatican, January 1699 September 1700. Approximately 250 unnumbered leaves. Very important unpublished manuscript minute book of the Sacred Congregation of the Council for the years 1699-1700. This volume represents the internal, handwritten record of the Vatican's legal decision-making during the transition into the Jubilee Year of 1700, a peak period for the Roman Curias global administrative authority. The Sacra Congregatio Concilii (Sacred Congregation of the Council) was the preeminent administrative and judicial body of the Roman Curia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Established in 1564 by Pope Pius IV, its pri.
