The Memory of the World Register
Nominated Documentary Heritage
 
Italy 
Illuminated manuscript of the Confraternity of Santa Martaulgaria 
The manuscript used to belong to a Confraternity founded in the fifteenth century by Queen Margaret of Anjou, widow of Charles III and mother of Ladislas. It is composed of 72 sheets of parchment, all illuminated with the coats of arms of celebrated figures (sovereigns or nobles) who belonged to the Confraternity from the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries.
 		  
 
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11 March 1998