Location: Archivio di Stato Perugia
Sub-Location: Archivio Comunale, Ann. Xv.
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Type:Communal record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Fiorenzo Canuti
Published: yes
Publication Details: Published by F. Canuti, “Il Perugino”, Siena, 1931, vol.2, p. 185 (previously in A. Mariotti, 'Lettere pittoriche perugine. Memorie istoriche riguardanti le arti del disegno in Perugia', rist. anast. 1788)
Notes: Mariotti erroneously gave this as p. 156.

At this date the altarpiece for the oratory of Santa Maria Novella had been completed but the painter did not deliver it because he had not yet been paid in full. The Confraternity petitions the Magistrate and receives a donation of 6 florins, Perugia

Artist(s): Pietro Perugino
Dates: 3.3.1498
Item pro parte Fraternitatis Hominum S. M. Novellae, P. S. A., fuit humiliter supplicatum, qualiter in dicta Fraternitate fuit depicta Imago Gloriosissime V. M. per manus Magistri Petri de Castro Plebis, dignissimum Magistrum, et pro eius provisione fuerunt sibi promissa quantitas sexaginta florenorum, quam quantitatem nequeant ob paupertatem solvere, etc. Idcirco facto et proposito partito, etc. M. D. P., etc., statuerunt et deliberaverunt quod de quibuscunque pecuniis comunis etc., detur Nicolao Nicolay Procuratori dicte Fraternitatis, flor. sex, ad sol. LXXXX pro flor..