Christostomus a Capranica conferring membership of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre to Jean de Molart, Baron of Reinek and Rosentorff, councillor of Emperor Mathias of Habsburg, single sheet document in Latin on parchment [Jerusalem (Convent of Holy Mount Zion), dated 21 April 1613] Vast single sheet document, with 39 lines of main text in a fine italic hand with scrolling penstrokes to mark place of st-ligatures, 6 lines of heading in larger italic and Roman scripts, and 2 lines of red ornamental capitals enclosing 3 initials formed of penwork foliage, one large penwork initial ‘E’ (opening “Ex antiquissimus rerum gestarum …”), signature of sender at base, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century endorsements “A95c” and “No 29” on reverse, 5 holes in centre of foot from seal tag once attached there, ink of red capitals flaked away in places and offset on other parts of head, small hole along fold in lower part of document, but overall in excellent condition, 620 by 490mm. Christostomus a Capranica held office as general guardian of the Franciscan convent of Holy Mount Zion and the Holy Sepulchre. Here he recites much of the history of violent interaction of Europeans and Muslims for control of Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre to show the necessity of the military orders to defend Christian interests in the city. He begins with the crusades and the role of Godfrey of Bouillon (1060-1100), the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, passing to the loss of the city and the collapse of the might of the military orders, and ends with Pope Leo X’s call to arms of the European nations against the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (1475-1521). Brother Christostom a Capranica is also recorded as the author of a tract, De ineffabili Dei nomine tetragrammaton contra hostes catholicae fidei, which was addressed to Emperor Ferdinand II in 1622 (see Tabulae Codidum Manu Scriptorum … in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi, VII, 1875, no.13421, and Die kaiserlichen Druckprivilegien im Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Wien, 2008, p.69).
Christostomus a Capranica conferring membership of the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre to Jean de Molart, Baron of Reinek and Rosentorff, councillor of Emperor Mathias of Habsburg, single sheet document in Latin on parchment [Jerusalem (Convent of Holy Mount Zion), dated 21 April 1613] Vast single sheet document, with 39 lines of main text in a fine italic hand with scrolling penstrokes to mark place of st-ligatures, 6 lines of heading in larger italic and Roman scripts, and 2 lines of red ornamental capitals enclosing 3 initials formed of penwork foliage, one large penwork initial ‘E’ (opening “Ex antiquissimus rerum gestarum …”), signature of sender at base, eighteenth- or nineteenth-century endorsements “A95c” and “No 29” on reverse, 5 holes in centre of foot from seal tag once attached there, ink of red capitals flaked away in places and offset on other parts of head, small hole along fold in lower part of document, but overall in excellent condition, 620 by 490mm. Christostomus a Capranica held office as general guardian of the Franciscan convent of Holy Mount Zion and the Holy Sepulchre. Here he recites much of the history of violent interaction of Europeans and Muslims for control of Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulchre to show the necessity of the military orders to defend Christian interests in the city. He begins with the crusades and the role of Godfrey of Bouillon (1060-1100), the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, passing to the loss of the city and the collapse of the might of the military orders, and ends with Pope Leo X’s call to arms of the European nations against the Ottoman Sultan Selim I (1475-1521). Brother Christostom a Capranica is also recorded as the author of a tract, De ineffabili Dei nomine tetragrammaton contra hostes catholicae fidei, which was addressed to Emperor Ferdinand II in 1622 (see Tabulae Codidum Manu Scriptorum … in Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensi, VII, 1875, no.13421, and Die kaiserlichen Druckprivilegien im Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv Wien, 2008, p.69).
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