Location: Archivio storico comunale, Cortona
Sub-Location: Lib. Q. 8, Deliberazioni, 1517-1520, fol. 310r.
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Type:Communal record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Tom Henry, corrected by Gabriella Battista.
Published: no
Publication Details: Referred to by G. Mancini, Notizie sulla Chiesa del Calcinaio, Cortona, 1868, p. 92 and by R. Vischer, Luca Signorelli und die Italianische Renaissance, eine Kunsthistorische Monographie, Leipzig, 1879, p. 364

The Priors of Cortona order a wooden candelabre according to a drawing by Luca Signorelli.

Artist(s): Luca Signorelli
Dates: 7.6.1520

in margin:Candelabrum ante altarem capelle faciendum

Die vii mensis Junii.

Spectabiles domini priores in unum convocati absente Galeocto magistri Honofrii Sernino divinum cultum pro oculis habentis obtento partito per eorum fabras v nigri deliberaverunt quod de pecuniis extrahendis de cassepta dicta camera quia dicti comunis constructum unum candelabrum ligneum cum lucerna de octone secundum modum dandum et designandum ab eximio pictor magistro Luca Signorello nunc eorum in offitio collega quod stare debeat accensum ante capellam et altarem in aula maiori quolibet die sabati et singulis diebus quibus fiunt consilium ad honore et reverentiam gloriosissime Virginis Marie.