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1. Add MS 8303

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Rome and its relationships with Venice, France, the German Empire, Naples, and Ferrara, with particular attention to the protection of the papal state and the city of Rome from military attacks and natural disasters; circa 1598-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. L' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '494.' in ink in fifth spine compartment...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 11-21v Paul V; Pope: Leonardo Donà; Doge of Venice: François de Joyeuse, Cardinal 1583: Negotiations for the annulment of the interdict on Venice: 1607: Ital: Copy. ff. 22-36 Henry IV of France: James Davy Du Perron, Cardinal: Letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1598-1644
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8304

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, and discourses relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the League of Tuscany, Venice, Modena and Parma during the war of Castro, Ferrara, France, the Netherlands, and the Congress of Cologne; circa 1536-1672. Italian and Latin. Copies, mid 17th cent. The MS. includes (art. 17, ff. 264-279v) three excerpts from the Storia d'Italia by the Florentine historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), relating to the rights of the Apostolic See over te...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/21/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 47-54v Ceremonials: Innocent X; Pope: Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina; Prefect of Rome: Juan de Velasco de la Cueva, Count of Siruela: Federico Savelli, Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8316

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portugal and the election of King John IV. The MS. also includes (art. 6, ff. 105-121v) an anonymous relazione of the devastation of Rome by the Gauls under their leader Brennus in 390 B.C. Pen-decorated frontispieces (ff. 79, 148, 182), and family tre...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-23v Political Tracts: Genoa; Doges of: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ambassadorial precedence for the Genoese ambassadors: 1st half 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 45-63v City of Ferrara: Political Tracts: Venice: Tracts rel. to territ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1640-1643
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8392

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HISTORICAL PAPERS relating to Rome; 1624-1654. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies. The volume includes reports about the succession of Mantua; relazione of events in Rome from January 1635 to September 1643 by Monsignor Giovan Battista Spada; reply to the Duke of Modena about his claims to the Duchy of Ferrara and other domains of the Church; correspondence between the Holy See and Spain about misuse of power by representatives of the Church in Spain; memorial of events in the life of Franc...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Urban VIII; Pope: Church of Rome: History of Rome: 1624-1654: Ital., Lat. and Span. includes: ff. 1-74v Duchy of Mantua: Relazioni of the succession of Mantua: 1624-1630: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1624-1654
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8753

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GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOK: Dispatches and letters of Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France 25 June 1643 - Dec. 1656; 1655-1657. Italian and Latin. Copies. The dispatches are mainly addressed to the secretary of state Giulio Rospigliosi and date 21 May 1655 - 5 Feb. 1657 (dispatches relating to 1655 on ff. 2-174v, to 1656 on ff. 174v-373, to 1657 on ff. 373-376). Correspondents include: Cardinal Giacomo Corradi, Pope Alexander VII, the Pope's brother Mario Chigi, the P...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Louis XIV of France: Dispatches from N. Guidi del Bagno to G. Rospigliosi rel. to: 1655-1657: Ital: Copies. Giulio Rospigliosi, Cardinal 1657; Pope Clement IX 1667: Dispatches ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1655-1657
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 15325

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A VOLUME of maps and plans of Italy, viz. Environs de Suze et Fenestrelles ;--Fort de Brigueras, 1630;-Environs du chateau de Vintimille;-Alexandrie de la Paille, 1657 ;-Lunegiana;- Ferrara;-Port Hercolé, en Toscane;-Coast near Leghorn ;-Leghorn, (three plans);-Velletri (two plans) ;-Dioecesis et Ager Tiburtinus, 1739; -Le Royaume de Naples (two maps);-Baye de Tarente, par Verguin, 1735 ;-Prise de la Ville d'Auguste, en Sicile, 1675;-L'Isle de Corse (two maps) ;-Siege de St. Florent, en Co...
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Lunegiana, Italy: Map of. Augusta, Sicily: Prise de la ville. Boyer, Sieur: Carte de la golfe de Mugia et la rade de Trieste. Fort of Brigueras, Pignerol in Italy: Plan of: 1630. Carbonaro, Cape of Sardinia: Map of. Island of Corsica: Maps of. Island of Elba: Map of. Fenestrelle, France: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1554-1739
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 20312

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Vol II. 1. Two copies of a report of . . . . [Grand Vicar of the diocese of Soissons] to Mary of Modena, on his conduct in respect to the oath of fidelity required of Roman Catholics in England; Rome, 28 Jan. 1717. Fr. f. 1. 2. "Copie de la lettre de M. Stanhope, Secretaire d'Etat, le premier ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1716-1719
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 22347

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"PITTURE piu rinomate, che si trouano nelle Chiese e Sobborghi della Città di Ferrara, con l'Anno dell' Edificazione di esse Chiese. Raccolte da Frà Giuseppe Maria Maffei, Carmelitano della Congregazione di Mantoua, per suo diuertimento nell' Anno 1770." At the beginning is an alphabetical index of 102 churches and chapels in and about Ferrara, the pictures and images in which are here described; and at f. 69 are the names of 125 painters, sculptors, and architects of Ferrara, with short not...
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Giuseppe Maria Maffei, Carmelite, of Mantua: Account of pictures in churches and of artists of Ferrara: 1770. City of Ferrara: Account of pictures in churches, and of native artists, by G. M. Maffei: 1770.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1770
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 26784

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MISCELLANEOUS treatises, letters, poemis, etc. Lat. and Ital. 1. I Trionfi del Petrarcha. Imperfect, and some parts misplaced. f. 2. 2. "Epistola Beati Bernardi de cura et modo rei familiaris gubernande," f. 26. 3. "Oratio ad indcendum stomacum de mulieribus;" attributed to Leonardo Justiniani, f. 28 b. 4. Eugenii papæ iv epistolæ,-ad Humfredum, ducem Gloucestriæ, de concilio Ferrariensi; [Feb. 1438], f. 30 b;-ad Universitatem Parisiensem de concilio Basiliensi; Florentiæ, 1 Oct. s.a...
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includes: ff. 2-25 Francesco Petrarca, poet: I Trionfi: 15th cent.: Imperf. ff. 26-28 Saint Bernard,; Abbot of Clairvaux: De cura rei familiaris: 15th cent. ff. 28, b-30 Leonardo Giustiniani: Oratio ad inducendum stomachum de mulieribus: 15th cent. f. 30 b Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 28025

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OFFICE-BOOK of the church of Ferrara; containing:-Kalendarium sanctorum, f. 2;-"Ordo manualis ecclesie maioris Ferrariensis secundum consuetudinem sacro-sante romane curie;" with musical notes and, at the end, directions for. the celebration of services and a list of greater festivals, f. 8;-"Proprium sanctorum per totum anni circulum," f. 146;-"Comune sanctorum," f. 211; -Officium "in dedicatione ecclesie et anniiuersario eius," f. 228 b;- "Ordo officii beate Marie uirginis," f. 230 b;-"O...
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Liturgies LATIN: Offices of the church of Ferrara: 1400. Manuscripts, Dated (to A.D. 1500) Latin and Modern Languages: MSS: AD 919 - AD 1500. City of Ferrara: Office book of the church: 1400. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Office-book of Ferrara. Miniature initials and borders: 1400...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1400
Extent:
1 item