758 x 600 mm. Brown ink on vellum. With floral decorations in brown ink, heightened in red, green, and gold. Lacks the seal. Indulgences granted to the branch of the archconfraternity of the Gonfalone in Chaudes-Aigues in the diocese of Saint-Flour, Cantal, France, led by a procurator named Mathurin Lepaintre. A beautiful letter of indulgences based on the canon law concerning archconfraternities as found in the constitution of Clement VIII (7 December 1604). Odoardo Farnese grants the indulgences in his function as Cardinal protector ("urbis protector") of the Gonfalone. - Established in 1264, the Gonfalone fraternity was the most prominent group of white penitents. Members' obligations included participation in religious processions, medical care for the poor, burying the poor, giving dowries to poor girls, and, since they had been raised to the rank of an archfraternity by Pope Gregory XIII in 1579, ransoming Christian captives from the Papal States in Muslim countries. - The connec