Catholic Church - Italy

Date: 1946-1988

From: Davin, Daniel Marcus, 1913-1990 : Literary papers

Reference: MS-Papers-5079-057

Description: Identified persons entered under Name; letters from Keith West-Watson describe problems within the Catholic Church in Italy and correspondence with Sir John Waller includes a number of privately printed cartoons, drawings and greeting cards Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss and typescripts Processing information: Record updated 3 November 2023 when the requirement to permission for access was removed.

Date: 10 November 1630

By: Catholic Church. Archdiocese of Wellington (N.Z.)

Reference: MSR-54

Description: A charter or papal bull of Pope Urban VIII, issued at Praeneste [present day Palestrina], Italy, dated 10 November 1630. The letter is addressed to the apostolic vicar in the town and diocese of Venasca [possibly present day Venasque], France, authorising the establishment of a monastery of nuns in 1626, initially by a Nicolas Valletta. Payment of 8,000 ducats was made by the kingdom of Naples for its construction. Immediately below the seal are the signatures of Julianus Correttus and A. Theobaldus pro Magnus, with a third signature illegible. The following names are included on the verso: "Bernier", with a calligraphic initial by the scribe who drew up the charter, "A. Theobaldus pro Magnus" and "I. Ricci ep[?]". The summary of the document is signed "Vicarius apostolicus com". Opening line reads: "Urbanus episcopus servus servorum Dei Dilecto filio uicarie in Ciuitate et dioc ...". The lead papal bulla is stamped "VRBANVS PAPA VIII" [Pope Urban VIII]. Assistance in description provided by Professor Constant Mews (Monash University) and Fr David Barry osb (New Norcia Benedictine Community, New Norcia, Western Australia). According to Fr David Barry osb, Nicolas Valletta was originally charged to erect a College for the Society of Jesus, with the Jesuit priests accepting responsibility for celebrating two Masses each day for the testator. They did not accept this, so he then set about erecting a monastery of nuns in Venasca. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 Monograph(s). Physical Description: Written in Latin text in ink on parchment within a decorative calligraphic border of foilage, fruits, and flowers, with lead papal seal (bulla) attached by string; 507 x 790mm. Provenance: Owned by Fr Michael Brennan. On his death in 1980 his effects were left to the Archbishopric. The charter was held by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese Archives of Wellington until donation to the Library. Processing information: The charter had been stored folded (in quarters) for a long time, and received conservation treatment to flatten and relax the parchment.

Date: [ca. 1200]

By: Dunbar Sloane Ltd; Hispanic Society of America

Reference: MSR-55

Description: Monograph is comprised of seventy-nine sermons pertaining to the Annunciation, Advent, Christmas, and then proceed through late December and early January with St Stephen, St John, the Holy Innocents, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Sundays after Christmas, Purification, and then to the movable feasts dependent on Easter: Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima, and Lent. Among this latter group are moral expositions, exhortations to penitence, and sermons concerning Old Testament figures such as Noah, Abraham, Isaiah, Esau, Isaac, and Susannah. The text then jumps to the Sundays after Trinity Sunday (f.40), and then to the feasts of SS. Peter and Paul, the Assumption, and St John; and for Angels, All Saints, Confessors, and Virgins; the volume ends with three sermons for the dedication of a church. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 volume(s) 6 paper leaves, 67 vellum leaves. Physical Description: Bound manuscript, title 'XXXVI JNC-SE PER AN MS' in glit on spine with blue, brown and red ink on vellum, 255 x 175mm. Provenance: Previously sold by Christies, London, to a private New Zealand based collector in November 2008. Christies catalogue provenance states, ‘Perhaps from the Dominican convent of San Domenico, Gaeta [Italy]’. It was also once owned by the Hispanic Society of America from which it was deaccessioned.