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1. Add MS 8521

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BASSETTI LETTER-BOOK; circa 1688-1689. Italian. Copies, 1716? (the date of a letter on f. 91v, possibly a slip of the scribe disclosing the year of the copy). Register of letters of Abbot Apollonio Bassetti, Secretary of State to the Grand Duke of Tuscany Cosimo III de' Medici (1670-1723). The register is divided into two section. The first section (ff. 1-63v) contains undated letters of Bassetti to Count Ranuzzi of Bologna, who is probably identifiable with Vincenzo Ferdinando Antonio Ranuz...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Mottled brown leather over pasteboards with gilt-tooled spine: mid 18th cent. Cosimo III; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Apollonio Bassetti, Abbot; secretary to Cosimo III of Tuscany: Letter-Book of Apollonio Bassetti: circa 1688-1689: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-63v Vincenzo Ferd...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1716?
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1 item

2. Add MS 8535

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CARAFA LETTER-BOOK; 1713-1717. Italian and Latin. Copies. Register of letters from Pier Luigi Carafa, Archbishop of Larissa, to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci de' Calboli, Secretary of State of Clement XI (1700-1721), relating to the Apostolic nunciature to Tuscany. For Carafa see DBI, 19 (1976), pp. 599-601. Inc. (f. 10) 'Primo Spaccio alla Segreteria di Stato spedito a 24 settembre 1713 / Ieri sera giunsi felicemente in questa Dominante', expl. (f. 128v) 'Spaccio in data de 25 maggio 1717 / Ac...
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Clement XI; Pope: Cosimo III; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Letter-book of nuncio P. L. Carafa: 1713-1717: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Pier Luigi Carafa, Archbishop of Larissa; Cardinal 1728; Governor of Ancona: Letter-book rel. to Tuscany: 1713-1717: Ital. a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1713-1717
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8794

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Possibly a draft of the collection catalogue in Add. 8795, as the lay-out of the text in the two MSS. is very similar. Another catalogue of the collection in Add. 8796. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Na...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8795

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CATALOGUE OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ART COLLECTIONS OF THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; early 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Copy, late 17th cent. A detailed catalogue of the Medici collections of coins, medals, cameos, bronzes, and marble sculptures. Among other treasures the catalogue includes: - (1) f. 191, cameo with a portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, his wife Eleonora di Toledo and their children made by Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi (now in Florence, Museo degli Argenti), mentioned ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to the Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to: 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8796

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Other catalogues of the same collection in Add. 8794 and 8795. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Nazionale of Bargello (Florence, 1984), pp. xlv-xlvii. Title (f. 1) 'Liber continens nummos antiquos Romanos...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 16501-16503

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"LE MEMORIE delle occorenze del Viaggio del Sermo. Prencipe Cosimo III. di Toscana, per Alemagna et Olanda, scritte steso dal suo Segretario, Abbate Appollonio Bassetti; dal di 22 Ottobre, 1667, al 12 Maggio, 1668." In three Volumes. xviiith cent. Folio. [16,501- 16,503.]
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Cosimo III; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Viaggio per Alemagna et Olanda, scritto dal Abbate Bassetti: 1668.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
3 items

7. Add MS 16504

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"VIAGGIO fatto dal Sermo. Principe Cosimo Terzo di Toscana, per la Spagna, Inghilterra, Francia, et altri luoghi, negl' anni 1668 e 1669; descritto dal Sr. Dottor Giovanni Battista Gornia, da Castel S. Giovanni nel Bolognese, il quale, in qualità di Medico, viaggio con sua Altezza:" transcribed from his original note-book. An account of the same travels was written by Count Lorenzo Magalotti, whose MS. is preserved at Florence; and of this an English translation of the portion relating to En...
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Cosimo III; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Viaggio per la Spagna,Inghilterra, etc. 1668, 1669, descritto dal Sr. G. B. Gornia.: 1668, 1669.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item