Transcription
Original in Italian · manuscript
Reading checked by Yves d’Horrer; words still uncertain remain followed by [?].
Only the first page is photographed. It copies the beginning of the brief of 1836 (DOC 13).
Original text (Italian)
Regno d'Italia
Consulta Araldica
Si attesta che fra i documenti presentati nel 1875 dal Signor Conte D'Horrer Arsenio, Giuseppe Maria Ernesto Vincenzo, fu Giuseppe, Tenente nel Regio Esercito, allo scopo di ottenere, come ottenne, il riconoscimento del titolo Comitale a lui spettante, ve ne è uno del seguente tenore :
« Dilecto Filio Equiti Mariae Josepho de Horrer, Strasburgi. »
Gregorius PP. XVI
« Dilecte Fili, salutem et Apostolicam Benedictionem. Amplissima honorum munera, ac praecipua Nostrae benevolentiae testimonia ii profecto clarissimi viri jure meritoque sibi comparant, qui generis nobilitate ac virtutum laude spectati et Catholicae re[ligionis …] »
English translation
Kingdom of Italy
Consulta Araldica (Heraldic Council)
It is certified that among the documents presented in 1875 by Count Arsenio Giuseppe Maria Ernesto Vincenzo d'Horrer, son of the late Giuseppe, lieutenant in the Royal Army, in order to obtain — as he did obtain — the recognition of the title of count due to him, there is one of the following tenor:
« To Our beloved son the knight Marie Joseph de Horrer, in Strasbourg. »
Gregory XVI, Pope
« Beloved Son, greetings and Apostolic Blessing. The highest honours and the special marks of Our goodwill are rightly and deservedly obtained by those eminent men who, distinguished by the nobility of their birth and the renown of their virtues, and [ardent for the] Catholic [religion] […] » (full text and translation: see DOC 13)