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Grants of Arms. Permissions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents issued by or on behalf of a sovereign, usually by an official herald, permitting the use of armorial bearings.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Grant of armorial bearing to the Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

 Item
Identifier: F.R.31
Scope and Contents

The grant of armorial bearing is in a tin case.

Dates: 1856.

Grant signed by Cardinal Francesco Sforza to Baldassare Zuccola of Burmio and his successors of the titles of Miles Auratus, Comes Palatinus, and Comes Aulae Lateranensis., 1622.

 Item
Identifier: MS.3059
Scope and Contents

The grant quotes as authority a letter, 1539, of Pope Paul III conferring on the Sforza family of Sta Fiora (Sforza, Carlo, Mario, Paolo, and Alessandro and their descendants) these titles and the right to grant them.

Written in gold and black.

Arms of Cardinal Sforza, coloured, on folio 1 verso.

Dates: 1622.