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  copyFeatures: |-
    PML copy with manuscript issue date of 17 July 1489 to Richard Hopton of Eton College, Oxford.
    PML copy on vellum.
    PML copy with fragmentary red wax seal (2.5 x 4 cm) of Innocent VIII attached to vellum strip at bottom of indulgence. A similar fragmentary seal is on the copy of this indulgence now in the Toshiyuki Takamiya collection in Tokyo, see Christie's, 9 Dec. 1981, lot 207.
    Hand decoration: Rubrication not required.
    Annotations: Indulgence filled in, purchased by Magister Ricardus Hopton sacre theologie professor...decimo septi[m]o...julii. Early 18th-century inscription on verso: a Disensacion by [th]e Popes Authority for [th]e Remission of Sinnes.
  descriptionLanguage: eng
  electronicReproduction:
    - display: PML 48817
      url: http://corsair.themorgan.org/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=134696
  extDataset: []
  generalNotes:
    - Created by Drew Facklam.
  holdingInstitutionId: NewYorkNYPierpontMorganLibrary
  holdingsNote: ChL 1790A
  hostItemId: ij00333350
  location:
    point: {}
  paperSizeHeight: 146
  paperSizeWidth: 230
  physicalDescriptionNote: 'One leaf, printed on one side only.'
  provenance:
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: -1496/97
          gender: 1002
          name: 'Hopton, Richard'
          ownerId: 00025852
          professionOrType:
            - ule
          role: R390
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Richard Hopton (died 19 January 1496/97), headmaster and later Fellow of Eton College, purchased indulgence 17 July 1489 (another copy was sold to Henricus Bost, Provost of Eton on 24 April, see BMC XI 165, IA.55126). Annotations: Indulgence filled in, purchased by Magister Ricardus Hopton sacre theologie professor...decimo septi[m]o...julii.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2649873
          name: 'Eton, England'
      priceNote: Edited by Drew Facklam.
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1497
        start: 1489
    - acquisitionMethod: x
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          dates: 1700-1800
          gender: 1003
          name: 'Anonymous Inscriber, English'
          ownerId: 00025853
          professionOrType:
            - unk
          role: R570
          type: person
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: 'Early 18th-century inscription on verso: a Disensacion by [th]e Popes Authority for [th]e Remission of Sinnes.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 6269131
          name: England
      priceNote: Edited by Drew Facklam.
      source:
        - a
      timeperiod:
        end: 1750
        start: 1700
      type:
        - a
    - acquisitionMethod: a
      agent:
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          name: 'Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge'
          ownerId: 2381
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R160
          type: corporate
        - characterisation:
            - noc
          name: E.P. Goldschmidt & Co.
          ownerId: 00025854
          professionOrType:
            - bkt
          role: R390
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: e-uk-en
      certainty: a
      note: "Sotheby's London, 21 October 1957, lot 343, purchased by E.P. Goldschmidt for the Beinecke Foundation for the Morgan Library."
      place:
        - geonamesId: 2643743
          name: 'London, England'
      priceNote: Edited by Drew Facklam.
      source:
        - a
        - e
      timeperiod:
        end: 1958
        start: 1957
      type:
        - s
    - agent:
        - dates: 1924-
          name: The Morgan Library & Museum
          note: The Pierpont Morgan Library was chartered in 1924. J.P. Morgan transferred the collection to the Library. Since 2006 the institution goes by the name The Morgan Library & Museum.
          ownerId: 2855
          professionOrType:
            - lib
          role: R399
          type: corporate
      area:
        - areaCode: n-us-ny
      certainty: a
      note: 'Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Beinecke Foundation, February 1958.'
      place:
        - geonamesId: 5128581
          name: 'New York City, New York'
      priceNote: Edited by Drew Facklam.
      source:
        - a
        - f
      timeperiod:
        start: 1958
  shelfmark: PML 48817
  source: |-
    Ninth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1958 & 1959 / Frederick B. Adams, Jr. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1959, 43-45.
    On Richard Hopton, see Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to AD 1500 / A. B. Emden. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957, II:960-61.
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