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1. Add MS 8261

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RELAZIONE OF ITALY; 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Historical description of the Italian principalities and republics. Inc. (f. 1) 'L'Italia dominatrice una volta del mondo e poi preda del mondo istesso', expl. (f. 147) 'Isola del Gozzo con la piccola Comino hanno anch' esse i suoi forti'. The relazione is divided into eleven chapters: (i) Italia Proemio (ff. 1-8); (ii) Stati del Duca di Savoia (ff. 8-26v); (iii) Duca di Monferrato (ff. 26v-29v); (iv) La Republica di Genova (ff. 29v-33v); (v) Duc...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th earl of Guilford (L/20/D): bef. 1828. Italy General: Historical description of the Italian principalities and republics: circa 1650: Ital: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum on pasteboards: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 8-26v Duchy of Savoy: History of: circa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8294

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, papal instructions, and political treatises relating to Spain, Sweden, Savoy, France, Ethiopia, Genoa, and Venice, mainly during the papacies of Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati, 1590-1591), Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini, 1592-1605), and Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1605-1621); circa 1330, 1550-1606. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect (art. 6). The MS. includes: - (a) letters (f. 72) of King Philip II of Spain to Abbot and Count Sf...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Clement VIII; Pope: Paul V; Pope: Gregory XIV; Pope: Miscellaneous collection partly rel. to his papacy: circa 1555-1606: Ital., Lat. and Span: Copies. includes: ff. 38-42, 60-61v Political Tracts: On diplomacy, extracts: early 17th cent.: Ital: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8308

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, papers and letters relating to Genoa and the Netherlands; circa 1547-1625. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly imperfect. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LIV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '498' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 498 (vol. 54 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-51v Republic of Genoa: Tract and other papers rel. to: circa 1575-1598: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 20-23v Republic of Genoa: Giovanni Girolamo Morone, Bishop of Modena; Cardinal 1542: Draft of agreement to end civil war in Genoa by...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1547-1625
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8331

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to ambassadorial precedence at the papal court for representatives of the Republic of Genoa, after 1641; - (b) discourse (art. 4) addressed to Queen Christina of Sweden by the Dutch scholar Theodor Ameyden in celebration of the treaty of peace with the...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political treatises and satires rel. to: circa 1613-1652: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-84v Republic of Genoa: Ceremonials: Ambassadors: Treatises rel. to ambassadorial precedence of Genoese represe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1613-1652
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 8549

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ATLAS OF FORTIFICATION PLANS of Milan and other towns, castles and ports in Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, and Elba; late 17th cent. Italian. The volume includes 56 plans of the towns of Milan (with two plans showing its water system and castle), Pavia, Valenza Po, Alessandria, Castel Gavone, Castelfranco di Finale, Caprazoppa, the ports of Varegotti and Porto Longone (now Porto Azzurro), Genoa, Serravalle (with dotted lines indicating future developments), Tortona (with dotted lines indicatin...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/C): bef. 1828. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum; restored: late 17th cent. Maps and Plans: Italy General: Piedmont: Liguria, Italy: Lombardy, Italy: Plans of fortified towns, castles and ports in Lombardy, Piedmont and Liguria: late 17th cent...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8563

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GIOVANNI CIBO RECCO: History of Genoa; 1550-1556. Italian. Copy, mid-18th cent. The present text is an incomplete transcript of Giovanni Cibo Recco's History of Genoa, 1550-1570. Cibo Recco wrote the account circa 1570 at the request of the jurisprudent Nicolò Gentile Senarega that he complete Jacopo Bonfadio's Annalium Genuensium, which was left unfinished when Bonfadio died in 1550. In the present MS. the main text, which is preceded by (f. 1) a dedication to Alberico Cibo, Principe di Mas...
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Republic of Genoa: Giovanni Cibo Recco, Genoese historian: History of Genoa, with account of noble families, 1550-1556 by Giovanni Cibo Recco: mid 18th cent.: Ital.: Copy. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. Bindings ITALIAN: Quarter vellum with red and black ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8564

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FRANCESCO MARIA ACCINELLI: History of Genoa, vol. iii; 1776. Italian. Copy. The MS. contains the third volume, covering the years 1751-1776, of the annals of the history of Genoa from its foundation to 1776 written by the Genoese priest, historian and cartographer Francesco Maria Accinelli (1700-1777). Because of the revolutionary opinions that Accinelli expressed in his work, the first two volumes of the annals were published anonymously in Massa as Compendio delle Storie di Genova dalla su...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Quarter binding of mottled brown leather with marbled paper covers over pasteboards: late 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Republic of Genoa: Chronicles: Francesco Maria Accinelli, of Genoa; priest, historian and cartographer: History of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1776
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 8565

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STATUTES OF CORVARA: a collection of the statutes of Corvara, near La Spezia, with related confirmations and judgements by the commune of Genoa; after 1501. Latin. Statutes passed by the councillors of Corvara and presented to Johannes Lemengre [Jean Le Meingre], called Buciquant [Boucicaut], marshall of France and governor of Genoa (d. 1421), inc. (f. 3) '[I]nfrascripta Sunt Capitula Comunis Terre et Castri Corvarie', with an an extract (ff. 3-20) from the public acts of the chancery of Gen...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Blind-tooled and stamped leather with metal fittings: aft. 1501. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/C): early 19th cent. Trade and Commerce: Republic of Genoa: Legal material: Corvara, La Spezia: Statutes of Corvara confirmed by the commune of Genoa: aft. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1501
Extent:
1 item

10. 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