Location: Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
Sub-Location: MS Ferrajoli 424 (Protocolli di Ippolito de Cesis, 1511-22)
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Type:Notarial
Language:Italian/Latin
Transcription Author: John Shearman
Published: yes
Publication Details: The document was first discovered by A. M. Bandini, “ Il Bibbiena, o sia il Ministro di Stato delineato inla vita del Cardinale Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena”, Livorno 1758, p. 50; the present transcription is taken from J. Shearman, “ Raphael in early modern sources”, I, Yale University in association with the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, New Haven and London 2003, pp. 629-30.

Will of cardinal Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena: a small 'Madonna' by Raphael is left to Baldassarre Castiglione.

Artist(s): Raphael
Dates: 8.11.1520
[...] Item, reliquit reverendissimo cardinali de Cybo unum pannum quadratum steriachum auro pretextum Beate Veronice, quo utebatur ipse testator ante altare in celebratione misse. Item, reliquit aliud quadrum parvum, pictum manu Raphaelis cum figura Beate Verginis, quo ipse testator in eius cubiculo utebatur, magnifico domino Balthasare de Castigliono.