AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION
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22.7.20
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LOTTO 375:
DE SALES FRANCIS: (1567-1622) Bishop of Geneva 1602-22, canonised as a Saint in the Catholic Church by Pope ...
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Venduto per: €2 800
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€3 000 - €4 000
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DE SALES FRANCIS: (1567-1622) Bishop of Geneva 1602-22, canonised as a Saint in the Catholic Church by Pope Alexander VII in 1665. A lengthy manuscript list of indulgencies and confessions of the Saint Joseph religious society, prepared in Latin in an unidentified hand for presentation to De Sales, three pages, slim 4to, n.p. (Geneva), n.d. (January 1609), with a rare autograph statement signed ('Franc[i]s Ep[i]s[copi] Genevensis') by De Sales, as Bishop of Geneva, to the fourth page, n.p. (Geneva), 8th January 1609, in Latin. In the seven lines of holograph text De Sales confirms the validity of the indulgencies and confessions. With a blind embossed paper seal affixed beneath the statement. At the foot of the page appears a further, later autograph statement signed by Jean d'Arenthon d'Alex (1620-1695) in his capacity as Bishop of Geneva, also in Latin and dated October 1662. Some light overall damp staining, only very slightly affecting the text and signature (all of which remain perfectly legible) and with some professional restoration to a few areas of paper loss in the upper corners, G
