In message Tue, 18 Nov 1997 20:13:08 -0500 (EST),
CTAULT <[log in to unmask]> writes:
Here is a new one: I am writing an article on Leon Battista
> Alberti and I find that after his studies in law at Bologna, he became an
> Apostolic Abbreviator. Exactly what is/was that office? What duties did
> it entail? What did it have to do with the Curia, for whom he worked?
> Etc.? Thanks. Thomas Ault
Dear Thomas, if you want to know more than the excellent book by Peter
Partner can provide, then I can recommend: Thomas Frenz, Die Kanzlei der
Paepste der Hochrenaissance (1471-1527), Tuebingen 1986, and especially the
following two articles: Die Abbreviatoren unter Eugen IV, in: Quellen und
Forschungen aus italienuschen Archiven und Bibliotheken 60 (1980) 33-107,
and `Abbreviature officium est assistere vicecancellario in expeditione
litterarum apostolicarum'. Zur Entwicklung etc, in: Studien zu Ehren von
Hermann Hoberg, Rome 1979 789-823, both from the hand of Brigide Schwartz.
Success, Bram van den Hoven van Genderen
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