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Language English Name Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8282

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COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating mostly to the history of the Church and political affairs in 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1492-1715. Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Copies. Imperfect. Table of contents in Latin (ff. 2-3v), identifying the missing text after f. 80 as a commentary by [Girolamo?] Seripandi on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. 'D.V.10' and 'LXXIII' in pencil, and stamp 'biblioth / h.f. / J770' on f. 1: identifiable with Falconieri MS. 73 in...
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Europe: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Italy General: Miscellany rel. to: 17th-18th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 15-46v Scipio di Castro, political...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1492-1715
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8292

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of religious, political and literary tracts, poems, and letters relating to Naples, Corsica, Florence, Poland, Sweden, and Austria; 15th cent-1794. Italian and Latin, Greek, and English. Copies, partly autograph or signed. The MS. includes: - (a) a fragment of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, on vellum (art. 1, ff. 13-18v), late 15th-early 16th cent.; - (b) a poem (f. 34) on the Tyrrhenian Sea or Mare inferum, in Greek; - (c) a sonnet (art. 4, f. 40) by Vittorio Alf...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 13-18v Giovanni Boccaccio: De claris mulieribus, fragm.: late 15th - early 16th cent.: Lat: Copy. ff. 35-44 Carlo Vespasiano, Italian literary critic: Pietro Napoli Signorelli, Italian historian: Letters to Pietro Napoli Signorelli f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1794
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8306

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts relating to Rome, Florence, Ferrara and Padua; circa 1565-1574. Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '496' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 496 (vol. 52 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '103' in pencil in top left c...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-187 Ceremonials: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Tract rel. to papal elections: 17th cent.: Lat: Copy. ff. 188-284v Tiberio Deciani, of Udine; called Deciano; professor of law at Padua: Legal advice rel. to the prec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8544

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COLLECTION RELATING TO GENOA; 12th cent.-1634. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies put together around 1634 by Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino (circa 1558-1635), Genoese historian and man of letters, co-founder, secretary and later Principal (1590) of the Accademia degli Addormentati in 1587, with the name 'Il timido'. The present composite collection concerns relations between the Republic of Genoa and Savoy, France, Spain, the Emperor, the Pope, Florence and other Italian principalities, th...
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Republic of Genoa: Collection of letters and papers rel. to: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino, of Genoa; historian: Collection rel. to Genoa: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. includes: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1634?
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8666

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ALESSANDRO ANDREA: Chronicle of the Carafa War in the Lazio and in Naples in 1556-1557; late 16th cent. Latin. Autograph. A chronicle of the war between Philip II of Spain and Cosimo I de' Medici, Gran Duke of Tuscany, and Pope Paul IV Carafa and Henry II of France. During the war Alessandro Andrea (1519-1593) served in the Imperial-Neapolitan army of Philip II of Spain. At the end of the war he wrote a chronicle of the events in form of a Platonic dialogue in Italian, which was published wi...
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Philip I of Naples and Sicily: Henry II of France: Cosimo I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Chronicles: Paul IV; Pope: Alessandro Andrea, of Barletta; historian: Chronicle of the Carafa War 1556-1557 by Alessandro Andrea: late 16th cent.: Lat: Autogr. includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIO...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8688

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FILADELFO MUGNOS: Collection of fair copies of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers relating to successive Dukes of Vietri in the service of Philip II, III, and IV in Italy, 1555-1622; mid 17th cent. Spanish and Italian. Autograph. The MS. was compiled during the reign of Philip IV, 1621-1665 according to royal certification (f. 44). The MS. is described in Gayangos I, pp. 846-8. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in pencil ...
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Philip II of Spain: Philip IV of Spain: Philip III of Spain: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Filadelfo Mugnos, writer on Italian nobility and heraldry: Dukes of Vietri: Collection of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers rel. to successive Dukes of Vietri in the servi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8689

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PIETRO DE NORES: Account of the Carafa War, Book i; after 1644. Italian. Copy. The detailed account of the so-called Carafa war between Pope Paul IV Carafa and Spain (1555-1557) and its consequences is a work by Pietro De Nores, son of Giason, the exiled Cypriot philosopher and literary critic (on the latter see DBI 38 (1990), pp. 768-773). Pietro began to write the account in Rome during the first years of the papacy of Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605), but completed it only between 16...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: aft. 1644. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Philip II of Spain: Henry II of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Cosimo I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Paul IV; Pope: Pietro De Nores, historian: Account of the Carafa War, Book I by Pietro ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1644
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 46839 A-M

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46839. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS, viz.:
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includes: ff. 1-3 b Orders, Military Religious. Jesuits: Account of the capture by pirates, in 1608, of ten Spanish Jesuits: aft. 1611.ff. 1-3b Piracy: Account of the capture in 1608 of ten Spanish Jesuits: aft. 1611.ff. 1-3b Philip III of Spain: Account of the capture in 1608 of ten Jesu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
[1260-1923]
Extent:
13 items

10. Add MS 48019

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TRACTS AND PAPERS RELATING TO TRADE, the City of London, etc.; 16th cent. Some Latin and French. Copies. Contents list, f. iii. Some titles and notes, by Beale passim. 1. ff. 1-7b. 'A discourse touchinge clothes and clothe makinge', by John Leake, deputy alnager in the City of London; 1577. Tu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-16th century
Extent:
1 item