POPE BENEDICT XIV BULL: Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini Sealed Apostolic Brief 1756

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POPE BENEDICT XIV ORIGINAL PAPAL BORDEAUX BRIEF ON VELLUM
" Signed & Sealed in Rome on November 26, 1756
Size: 13.8" x 9" (35 cm x 23 cm), Signed and Sealed
At the bottom left is the subscription:
“Pro Magro Brevium” (On behalf of the Master of the Papal Letters), continuing on the next line, “ ” (C. Bruner, his Official Deputy). At the right “J. Card, Prod.‘ius” which is as yet obscure.
On the back side at the bottom left is the subscription:
"We counselor of the King and Expeditioner Banker in the court of Rome residing in Bordeaux certify to all true that the present act is true and dispatched according to the usage and the ordinary style feeling of the aforesaid court
Done in Bordeaux on January 5, 1757."
Pope Benedict XIV
(Latin:
Benedictus XIV
; 31 March 1675 – 3 May 1758), born
Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini
, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 17 August 1740 to his death in 1758.