Text in Latin; editorial matter in English and Italian.

Colophon: "Questo esemplare è il numero [blank]. Ex Civitate Vaticana. Printed in May 2007. This limited facsimile edition of seven hundred and ninety nine exemplars numbered 1/799 to 799/799 and ten exemplars numbered I/X to X/X worldwide was printed by "Art Color Printing", Rome, Italy on handmade 100% cotton paper embellished with watermarks specially made for this edition by Cariera Amatruda ... The complete Oeuvre was stitched and bound by hand following time-honoured methods using wooden plates covered with parchment and gold engravings."

Portofolio contains facsimiles of parchments with the four extant dossiers (A.A., Arm. D 208-210, 217-218; [4] folded leaves of plates) used in the 1308 trial against the Templars, and of the 'register' or summary (Reg. Aven. 48; [15] leaves of plates) prepared for Clement V; reproductions of three red seals; and a brochure (1 folded sheet).

Illustrations on 3 loose plates (in enclosures, tipped in before p. 76, 149 and 205) reproduce drawings by Tommaso de Vivo, engraved by Domenico Marchetti ca. 1840.

Issued in leather case, the case housed in a maroon cloth bag.

Exemplaria praetiosa ; 3

Presentation / Sergio Pagano.

Papal inquiry into the trial of the Templars / ed. Marco Maiorini and Pier Paolo Piergentili.

Preface.

Processo verbale = Minutes of the trial ...

Registrus Avenionense 48.

Historical notes on the trial against the Templars / Barbara Frale.

Sphragistic note / Luca Becchetti.

Templars > History > Sources.

Templars > Papal documents.

Templars > France > Trials, litigation, etc.

Trials (Heresy) > France.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Facsimiles.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Facsimiles.

Archivio vaticano.