Parchment
volume, 425x315 mm, ff. 4 + 392 (ff. numbered 397; ff. 373-378 missing), with modern binding, with no particular ornament.
ASV, Reg. Vat., 49, ff. 380v‑381r
The registers of Boniface VIII (Reg. Vat., 47-50) have the same characteristics of those of the immediate predecessors. The pages and the volumes are large and therefore contain a great number of reports. The disposition of the single writings in the register respects the praxis by then consolidated (books, rubrics continued numbering of the passages, etc.), but there appears to be more care in the transcription of the texts often checked by the magister registri, even with notes on the margins or even passages or periods that have been forgotten or put in the wrong place.
On ff. 380v-381r of this volume there is the entry of the famous «bull» of Boniface VIII (called «Antiquorum habet», from its first words), with which the first holy year was proclaimed. The papal letter addressed to all Christendom (Ad certitudinem presentium et memoriam futurorum), states the pontiff’s will to grant full indulgence and remission of all sins to the faithful who, repented and confessed, visit in the year 1300 and every hundredth year in the future the Basilicas of the Apostles Peter and Paul; for the inhabitants of Rome it established that the visit had to be done for 30 days, either consecutive or discontinued (at least once a day), whereas for foreign pilgrims this obligation was reduced to 15 days (f. 381r, from line 5: Nosde omnipotentis Dei misericordia et eorumdem apostolorum eius meritis et auctoritate confisi, de f(ratrum) n(ostrorum) con(silio) et apostolice plenitudine potestatis, omnibus in presenti anno millesimo trecentesimo, a festo Nativitatis domini nostri Iesu Christi preterito proxime inchoato, et in quolibet anno centesimo secuturo, ad basilicas ipsas accedentibus reverenter vere penitentibus et confessis [...] non solum plenam et largiorem, immo plenissimam omnium suorum concedimus veniam peccatorum).
