Translation / modern text
IN THE NAME OF CHRIST, AMEN.
WE, ALESSANDRO, by the mercy of God Bishop of Ostia, called Cardinal Farnese, Vice-Chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, [protector?] of the Pious and Universal Archconfraternity of the Most Holy Body of Our Lord JESUS CHRIST in the church of the house of the Blessed Mary sopra Minerva in Rome of the Order of Preachers [...] together with the [...] administrators, to ALL and singular who shall see, read, or hear this public document of transumpt, eternal greeting in the Lord. We give faith and attest that PAUL III of holy memory, by Divine Providence Pope, desiring to endow the confreres of the aforementioned Confraternity with certain spiritual gifts, granted them a certain letter containing the following wording: PAUL, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God, for an eternal remembrance of the matter. Our Lord JESUS CHRIST, about to pass from this world to the Father, during the Last Supper, at which He ate the Passover with His disciples, instituted the admirable Sacrament of His most precious Body and Blood [...]
[...] Given in Rome at Saint Peter's, in the Year of the Lord's Incarnation 1539, on the eve of the Kalends of December [November 30, 1539], in the sixth year of our pontificate. And subsequently, since the aforementioned Pope Paul III of holy memory issued and ordered to be proclaimed the constitution or motu proprio written below, we have also ordered the wording of this same constitution or motu proprio to be included in this present letter, which is as follows: POPE PAUL III. Motu proprio, etc. For the future remembrance of the matter. It is recognized that it belongs to the prudent foresight of the Apostolic See [...]
[...] It pleases [us] motu proprio and so we command. A. Subsequently, since we have seen and diligently examined the letter and motu proprio included above and have found them to be completely free from any defect and suspicion (the effect of which JULIUS III of holy memory, by Divine Providence Pope, according to his and the Apostolic See's pleasure, suspended by the proclamation of apostolic letters of the Jubilee Year of the fiftieth [1550], and which [letters] or the effect of which he subsequently, contrary to that suspension, by the judgment of the living voice [oraculo vivae vocis] restored to their former power, in which they were in any way before that suspension, renewed and fully restored, to have force forever except for the Jubilee Year), these, at the request of the most illustrious and most reverend lord Archbishop of Lviv, envoy of the Most Serene King of Poland, for the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament erected in the metropolitan church in the city of Lviv – provided that such grace has not been previously granted there to another [organization] by our Confraternity – we have ordered to be drafted into this public form of transumpt by the undersigned secretary of our Confraternity, free of charge and for the love of God. Decreeing that the same faith should be given to this present transumpt as would be given to the original letters and motu proprio themselves, if they were presented or shown. IN FAITH of which all and singular [points], we have ordered this present letter, or this present public document of transumpt, to be drawn up from here and signed and proclaimed by the same secretary, and we have also ordered and caused it to be strengthened by the affixing of our seals. Given in Rome, in the temple of the Blessed Mary sopra Minerva, at our assembly, in the Year of the Lord's Nativity 1586, of the 14th indiction, on the 15th day of the month of July, in the second year of the pontificate of the most holy father and our lord in Christ, the lord SIXTUS, by Divine Providence Pope the Fifth. In the presence of the noble men Marcello Odeschi and Giovanni Battista Cilia, Roman citizens [...]
Scipione Gonzaga, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Roman [---] sealed; there were six [seals].
Camillo Caetani, administrator [---]
[Notarial note below:]
[---] Pietro Pirami, Roman public notary [...] public transumpt [---]
[Note at the bottom on the right side:]
For the city of Lviv.
[Insert on the bottom margin with paleographic corrections / errata of the text:]
Note: On this damaged [gnawed] parchment in line 73 one should read = others were weighing and are weighing to transmit, and their [---] and management etc. In the following line, 74, thus = exceeding [regulations], and their offices with scandal, deprivation and public [---]
[Verso:]
[18th-century or later signature / numbering:] C.
[Archival sticker:] 718
[Official note / oblates from the 17th century:] In the Year of the Lord [---] Jan Joachim [---]
[Remains of seal cords / cuts on the plica:] [Traces of 6 seals suspended on silk cords, preserved fragments of cords].
Original wording — transcription
IN CHRISTI NOMINE AMEN
NOS ALEXANDER miseratione diuina Ep[iscop]us Hostiensis Cardinalis Farnesius nuncupatus S. R. E. Vicecancellarius, Piae & Vniuersalis Confraternitatis Sacratissimi Corporis Domini Nostri IESV CHRISTI in Ecclesia Domus Beatae Mariae supra Mineruam de Vrbe ordinis Fratrum Praedicatorum instituta [... Protector?] [...] P[ro]tector vna cum [...] Administratoribus VNIVERSIS & singulis praesens publicum Transumpti instrumentum visuris, lecturis, pariter, & audituris, Salutem in Domino sempiternam. Fidem facimus, & attestamur, Qualiter Fe[licis] Rec[ordationis] PAVLVS diuina prouidentia Papa III. volens dictae Confraternitatis Confratres aliquibus spiritualibus prosequi muneribus quasdam eis concessit literas tenorem qui sequitur continen[tes]: PAVLVS Episcopus seruus seruorum Dei, Ad perpetuam rei memoriam. Dominus Noster IESVS CHRISTVS, transiturus de hoc Mundo ad patrem, in vltima caena, qua Pascha cum discipulis suis manducauit, admirabile Sacramentum pretiosissimi Corporis, & Sanguinis sui instituit [...]
[...] Dat. Romae apud sanctum Petrum, Anno Incarnationis Dominicae M. D. XXXIX. Pridie Cal. Decemb. Pontific. nostri anno sexto. Et deinde cum prelibatus Fe. re. Paulus Papa 3. infrascriptam Constitutionem seu Motum proprium edidisset, & publicari fecisset, Constitutionis seu Motus proprii huiusmodi tenorem, etiam praesentibus inferi fecimus, qui talis est. PAVLVS PAPA III. Motu proprio, &c. Ad futuram rei memoriam. Ad prouidam circumspectionem sedis Apost. pertinere dignoscitur [...]
[...] Placet Motu proprio, & ita mandamus. A. Successiue cum nos literis & motum proprium praeinsertos vidissemus & diligenter inspexissemus, & eosdem omni prorsus vitio & suspicione carere reperissemus. (Quorum effectum fe. re. IVLIVS diuina prouidentia Papa 3. ad suum & Apost. sedis beneplacitum publicatione literarum apost. anni Iubilei quinquagesimi suspenderat, quosq[ue] seu quorum ipsum effectum postea aduersus suspensionem huiusmodi viuae vocis oraculo in pristinum & eum vigorem in quo ante suspensionem eandem quomodolibet erant restituit, reposuit & plenarie reintegrauit praeterqua[m] in anno Iubilei perpetuo valituris) illas ad instantiam Illustris et Reverendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Leopolien[sis] oratoris Serenissimi Regis Poloniae pro Confrat[ernitate] Sanctissimi Sacramenti erecta in Ecc[lesia] Metropolitana in Civit[ate] Leopolien[si]. Dummodo similis gratia rius alteri, per nostram Confraternitatem ibi concessa non fuerit per infrascriptum nostrae Confraternitatis Secretarium gratis & amore Dei in hanc publicam transumpti formam redigi mandauimus. Decernen. huic praesenti transumpto tantam fidem adhibendam fore vanta ipsis originalibus literis & Motu proprio adhiberetur, si forent exhibiti vel ostensi. IN QVORVM omnium & singulorum fidem praesentes literas, siue hoc praesens publicum transumpti instrumentum exinde fieri, & per eundem Secretarium subscribi, & publicari mandauimus: ac nostri sigil. iussimus & fecimus appensione muniri. Dat. Romae in Templo beatae Mariae supra Mineruam in nostra Congregatione sub Anno a Nativitate Domini M.D.LXXXVI Indictione XIIII Die vero XV Mensis Julii Pontificatus sanctiss. in Christo patris & D. N. D. SIXTI divina prouidentia Papae Quinti Anno Secundo. Praesentibus nobilibus viris Marcello Odeschi & Io. Baptista Cilio Ciuibus Romanis [...]
Scipio Gonz[aga] Patr[iarcha] Hier[osolymitanus] R[oma]nus [---] sigillavit fuerunt sub sex.
Camillus Caet[anus] Ad[---]
[Nota notarialna poniżej:]
[---] Petrus Piramius no[ta]rius pub[licus] Ro[manus] [...] publicum transumptum [---]
[Dopisek na dole z prawej strony:]
Pro Civitate Leopolien[si].
[Wklejka na dolnym marginesie z poprawkami paleograficznymi / erratą tekstu:]
Nb. In corrosa hac membrana Versu 73 legendum = aliis communicare praesumpserunt et praesumunt eorumque [---] et administrationem etc. In versu vero sequenti 74 sic = transgredientes, eorumque officia scandalo privatione et publico [---]
[Verso:]
[XVIII-wieczna lub późniejsza sygnatura / numeracja:] C.
[Nalepka archiwalna:] 718
[Zapiska urzędowa / oblaty z XVII w.:] Anno D[omi]ni [---] Ioannes Ioach[im] [---]
[Pozostałości sznurów pieczętnych / nacięć na plice:] [Ślady po 6 pieczęciach przywieszonych na jedwabnych sznurkach, zachowane fragmenty sznurów].
Reading notes
Print on parchment (transumpt form with manuscript elements) with a rich polychrome vignette miniature in the header: in the center Corpus Christi in glory supported by angels with the papal coat of arms of Sixtus V, on the sides Saint Peter and Saint Paul in medallions, rich floral-botanical border. The document transumes the bulls of Paul III (from 1539) and the confirmations of Julius III, applying the privileges and indulgences of the Roman archconfraternity at Santa Maria sopra Minerva to the newly erected Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament at the Latin cathedral in Lviv. The transumpt was drawn up at the initiative of the Archbishop of Lviv, Jan Dymitr Solikowski. In the lower part, cuts and fragments of cords from 6 seals are visible (the wax seals themselves are currently missing). A strip of parchment with a correction/errata of damaged lines is glued to the bottom margin.
