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Language English Name Henry III, of France Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8290

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political tracts, letters, relazioni, and conclave accounts relating to Portugal, Turkey, the Papacy, France, the German Empire, Venice, Persia, Poland, and Tunisia; circa 1544-1576. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 10, ff. 334v-375v) a letter-book of Cardinal Angelo Niccolini, Archbishop of Pisa, relating to his promotion to cardinal in 1563. Table of contents (ff. 477-477v), added later. Old shelfmarks '285' in ink on outer margin of front pastedown, abov...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-63 Sebastian of Portugal: Relazione, letter, and tracts rel. to: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 10-63 Political Tracts: On Portugal: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 63-67v Gregory XIII; Pope: Account of conclave: 1572: Ital: Copy. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1544-1576
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8566

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BERNARDO REBUFFO GIUSTINIANI: Dialogue between Philip II and the Duke of Alba concerning Genoa, with other papers relating to Genoa; circa 1575. Italian. Copy, 17th cent. Sacked by Spanish troops in 1522 and captured by the French in 1527, Genoa was retaken in 1528, with Spanish support, by the Genoese Admiral Andrea Doria. A new constitution was established which stated that only old noble families (patrizie) serving before 1506 should hold senior offices. These noble houses subsequently re...
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Republic of Genoa: Bernardo Rebuffo Giustiniano, Genoese historian: History of Genoa, with account of noble families, 1528-1575 by Bernardo Rebuffo Giustiniano: circa 1575. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/B): bef.1828. Bindings ITALIAN: Quarter vellum with brown paper co...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8718

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO THE ASSEMBLY OF THE ESTATES GENERAL OF FRANCE; circa 1568-1587. French and Latin. Copies. Papers relating to the Assembly of the Estates General and the religious wars during the reigns of Charles IX (1560-1574) and Henry III (1574-1589). Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. 1, 167v and i verso (for the Colonna library stamp see Bragaglia, vol. iii, T 32: c. 1750). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armori...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Vellum on pasteboard: 17th cent. Protestants: Charles IX of France: Henry III of France: Papers rel. to the Assembly of the Estates General: circa 1568-1587: Fr. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 23-26v Henri de Montmoren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1568-1587
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8719

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, in prose and verse, relating to France; 1574-1589. French, and Latin. Copies. Satirical verses and other papers relating to the reign of Henry III (1574-1589), together with contemporary copies of about 10 letters of the period. Title (reversed on f. 1v) by a later hand ‘avril 1585. / Verses et Lebelles contre Henry 3. et toute la cour’, with remark ‘Bon a Imprimer’. Vellum flyleaf (ff. 1-1v) from a 14th cent. French MS. containing a fragment of Bartholus de Saxoferrato...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Poetry FRENCH: Political and Satirical Poems: Henry III of France: Miscellaneous papers, in prose and verse rel. to: circa 1574-1589: Fr: Copies. includes: ff. 1-1v Heraldry: Bartholus de Saxoferrato, Perusinus Doctor: De insignis et armis (frag....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1589
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8778

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GIOVANNI CARLO SCARAMELLI: Relazione of Poland and other related papers; 1573-1574. Italian and Latin. Copy. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli was Secretary to Girolamo Lippomano, the Venetian ambassador sent to Krakow after the election of Henri de Valois as King of Poland (20 Sept. 1573 – 1575); cf. Lippomano's relazione published in Albèri, s. I, vol. 6 (Florence, 1862), pp. 271-316. After his service in Poland Scaramelli probably followed Lippomano to Naples (1575-1576), France (1576-1579) and C...
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Bindings POLISH: Blind-roll stamped binding of brown calf: circa 1574. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. Henry of Valois of Poland: Collected papers and relazione by G. C. Scaramelli rel. to: 1573-1574: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, of V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1574
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 10232

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RELAZIONE della coronatione e della solennità del maritaggio del Re Enrico III. fatta in Reims, nell' anno 1575, Octavo. [10,232.]
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Henry III of France: Relatione della coronatione e maritaggio: 1575.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1575
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 11405

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS of Sir Julius Cæsar, Judge of the Admiralty; among which are, Latin verses by William Ravenseroft, addressed to Sir J. Caesar on new year's day;--Mr. Guyn's Preface to his Reading on the Common Law of England;-Observations on the English Parliament;-Archeion, or of the High Courts of Justice in England, by William Lambard;-Orders for the King's Privy Council, 4 Hen. VI.;-De Coronatione Ricardi II.;-Discourse upon the Commission of Bridewell ;-Report of Sir Julius Caesar,...
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Danes: Complaints of the English against them, etc.: 1597.: lat. Elizabeth I of England: Complaints of the English against the Danes, etc.: 1597.: Lat. Elizabeth I of England: Spoils done by the French upon the English etc.: 1562-1596. Elizabeth I of England: Complaints of the United Province...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
[between 1558-1603]
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 14008

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A COLLECTION of copies of State Papers, with some Originals, in Spanish, Italian, and Latin, of the xvith and xviith centuries, relating to the affairs of different states of Italy, in the following order : Various memoranda, 1529-1583, f. 2 ;-" Papeles tocantes al casamiento de la Sra. Infanta D. Cathalina con el Smo. Carlos Emanuel, Duque de Saboya," 1584-5, f. 3;-Instructions to Spanish Ambassadors sent to the Duke of Savoy, viz., D. Jusepe de Acuñia, 1588, f. 19; D. Godolfe de Mendoça, C...
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Duchy of Savoy: Papers relating to: of the 16th and 17th cent. History of Genoa: Papers relating to, of the 16th and 17th centuries. Italy: Papers relating to the affairs of different states of: of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries: Span., Ital., and Lat. Philibert, Prince; son of the Duke of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 14840

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AUTOGRAPH LETTERs of the following persons:-Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, addressed to the Duchess of Burgundy, dat. Greenwich 30 May, 1515 ;-Artus de Cossé de Brissac, Maréchal de France, to the King of Poland [Henri de Valois], dat. Gonnert, 8 Sept. 1577, (?) Fr. ;-The Earl of Essex [Walter Devereux] to the King of France [Henry IV.], dat. 2 Dec. [1597?], Fr.;-Henry IV. of France, to M. [Nicholas de Neufville, Seigneur] de Villeroy, dat. 20 Dec. 1602, Fr. ;-The Earl of Lennox [Esme Stu...
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Henry of Valois of Poland: Letter to him from Artus de Cossé de Brissac: 1577. Esmé Stuart, Seigneur d' Aubigny; afterwards Earl of March and Duke of Lenox: Letter to him from the King of France: 1606. Nicholas de Neufville, Seigneur de Villeroy; Secretary of State: Letter to him from the King...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1515-[1615]
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 16401

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LETTER from René, Duc de Lorraine, to the Dean and Chapter of St. Dié; dat. au Pont, 30 March, 1490. Fr. Signed " Rene; " with signet, f. 7 ;-Letter from Philip II. of Spain to [Emanuel Philibert] Duke of Savoy; dat. Valladolid, 25 Oct. 1553. Sp an. Hologr., with signet, f. 8 ;-Letter from René, Vicomte de Rohan to [Henry III] King of France; dat. Montroy, 29 Jan. 1578 [1579]. Signed " Rene de Rohan." Fr., with seal, f. 11 ;-Letter from Henry, Duc de Rohan, to Mons. de Montredon; dat. Coire...
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Giulio Mazarini, Cardinal: Letter to the Duke of Orleans: 1642. includes: f. 7 René II; Duke of Lorraine; styled King of Sicily: Letters to the Dean and Chapter of St. Dié: 1473, 1478, 1490. f. 8 Philip II of Spain: Letter to Eman. Philibert, Duke of Savoy: 1553. f. 8 Emanuel Philibert; Duke o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Spanish
Date Range:
1490-1642
Extent:
1 item