Location: Archivio dell’Opera del Duomo, Orvieto
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526, fols. 341r-342r.
Sub-Location: Riformanze, 1484-1526, fols. 341r-342r.
Type:Institutional record
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Dugald McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: Partially published by L. Fumi, Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Rome, 1891, p. 406, doc. CLIV; new transcription by D.E. McLellan, Luca Signorelli’s Last Judgement Fresco Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, no. 351 (and partially published by Andreani 1996, doc. 217, pp. 433-34).
Language:Latin
Transcription Author: Dugald McLellan
Published: yes
Publication Details: Partially published by L. Fumi, Il Duomo di Orvieto e i suoi restauri, Rome, 1891, p. 406, doc. CLIV; new transcription by D.E. McLellan, Luca Signorelli’s Last Judgement Fresco Cycle at Orvieto: An Interpretation of the Fears and Hopes of the Comune and People of Orvieto at a Time of Reckoning, unpublished doctoral thesis, Melbourne University, 1992, no. 351 (and partially published by Andreani 1996, doc. 217, pp. 433-34).
The soprastanti of the Opera del Duomo, Orvieto agree to find another artist to paint the Cappella Nova unless Perugino responds favourably to a letter from the Opera.
Artist(s): Luca Signorelli, Pietro PeruginoDates: 8.3.1499
In nomine Domini amen. Anno Domini millesimo quatricentesimo nonagesimo nono, indictione secunda, tempore pontificatus sanctissimi in Christo patris et domini nostri domini Alexandri divina providentia pape sexti, die vero octava mensis Martii
Prima congregatio superstitum
Convocatis, congregatis et cohadunatis infrascriptis superstantibus seu superstitibus ipsius fabrice in camera nova et audientia solite residentie camerarii ipsius fabrice et ubi similes cohadunationes, colloquia, consilia et deliberationes fieri solent et consuevere; facta previa denunctiatione et mandato per Dominicum Pier Iohannis et Dominicum Nicolai Catalutii, nunctios ipsius fabrice, et servatis servandis
secundum formam statutorum ordinamentorum stilum et consuetudinem dicte fabrice in audientia prefata, sita iuxta plateam dicte ecclesie et iuxta bona dicte fabrice et alia latera
Iohanne Lodovico Beneincasa ) superstantibus ipsius fabrice
Butio Iacobi ) deputatis pro uno anno incepto
Iohanne Barnabei et ) in Kalendis mensis Martii
Pacifico Octaviani ) predicti et ut sequetur terminando, ad requisitionem famulorum fabrice predicte, de voluntate et commissione spectabilis viri Placidi Oddi mercatoris et camerarii prefati pro infrascriptis negociis peragendis pro utilitate dicte fabrice
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Prima proposita super licentia
Quibus dictus camerarius fecit infrascriptas propositas ad presens incumbentes in ipsa fabrica quod cum ipse camerarius non habeat auc¬toritatem aliquid expendendi de pecuniis dicte fabrice sine licentia dictorum superstitum petiit sibi dari licentiam generalem si videtur et placet ut possit eius officium exercere secundum consuetudinem hactenus observatam in dicta fabrica et suorum in dicto officio precessorum: Ad hoc ne pro una quaquem re necesse habeat maxime in minimis in dies occurrentibus dictos superstites cohadunare et congregare
2a. proposita de prosecutione retegi duas cappellas parvas
Secundo, si videtur quod due cappelle parve dicte ecclesie Sancte Marie maioris incepte retegi et cohoperiri cum tegulis macinelli nec restantes retegi sint coperiende etiam ambe dicte cappelle vel saltem una dictarum cappellarum sit finienda cohoperiri cum dictis tegulis macinelli que cappelle existunt versus episcopatum et quid sit agendum
3a. proposita super cappella nova
Tertio, super cappella nova dicte ecclesie Sancte Marie maioris pingenda que iam fuit locata magistro Petro perusino; cum ipse magister Petrus non venerit seu fecerit contenta in instrumento locationis de super facto queritur quid sit agendum per dictum camerarium: an sit locanda ad pingendum alteri magistro vel ne