VENETIAN DIPLOMA OF SEMITECOLO. (Sixteenth Century.)

This specimen was selected from a fine collection of these documents in the British Museum, on account of the beautiful miniature painting of the illumination. The diploma to which this miniature is attached bears the

date 1644.

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