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1. Add MS 4801

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MILLES COLLECTION. Vol. XLVIII (ff. 263). Historical collections for the 15th-17th centt. Clarendon MS. Vol. 132. Viz:- (1) Abridgement of the statutes of Irish parliaments from 1410 to 1615. Contemporary copy from an enrolment made by Thomas Chetham, Clerk of the Parliament, and attested by h...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
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1 item

2. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
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1 item

3. Add MS 8722

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UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. II. Dispatches of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others, and letter from St. Francis of Sales to Cardinal Borghese; 1607-1612. Italian. Copies. Title by a later hand (f. 1) 'Lettere scritte al Cardinale Scipione Borghese nipote di Paolo V al nunzio di Francia dal 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1607-1612
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1 item

4. Add MS 8807

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LELIO MARRETTI: Ricordi Politici, vol. ii; circa 1610-1611. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti (1530-1617), a nobleman of Siena and a member (from 1557) of the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena (with the name of Attonito), was Prior of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome and 'familiare' of Cardinals Alessandro (d. 1581) and Francesco Sforza (d. 1624). For Cardinal Francesco he wrote the relazioni of the conclaves for the elections of Gregory XIV (1590), Innocent IX (1591), and Clement VII...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full reversed skin over limp pasteboards: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 2nd half 18th cent. Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: L. Maretti, Ricordi politici, part II, [dedicated to]: circa 1610-1611: Ital: Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti, Secretary to...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

5. Add MS 8810

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SUMMARY TABLE OF WORLD RULERS; 1590-1603. Italian. Autograph. A summary table of kings and rulers of all Western, Oriental, African and American countries, from Spain, France, Lorraine to Malacca, Philippines, China, Japan, Congo, Egypt, and America, compiled for and dedicated to the young prince Cosimo de' Medici (1590-1621), son of Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany (1587-1609) and Cristina of Lorraine. For each country the table provides summary information concerning its geographical loca...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 16th-early 17th cent. Chronology: Education: Summary table of world rulers offered to prince Cosimo de' Medici: 1590-1603: Ital. Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Summary table of world rulers offered to: 1590-1603: Ital.
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1590-1603
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1 item

6. Add MS 16442

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RISTRETTO della potenza de 'Principi;" addressed "All' illustrissimo et excellentissimo Signor Don Cosimo[II] de'Medici, Principe di Toscana, mio Signore" [1609-1621 ]. It is a statement, in a tabular form, of the situation, produce, number of cities and fortresses, revenue, troops, etc., of the different kingdoms and states of the world, including America and several states subject to Spain ; compiled at the beginning of the xviith cent. Large Folio. [16,442.]
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Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: "Ristretto della potenza de' Principi " addressed to him.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 17th century
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1 item

7. Add MS 40079

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TRANSCRIPTS of papers in the Florentine archives relating to a proposed marriage between Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 6 Nov. 1612), and a sister of Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1611-1612. The chief correspondents are the Florentine representatives and emissaries in England and Rome and members of the Tuscan court. The arrangement is roughly chronological. A number of ecclesiastical pronouncements are in Latin, the rest of the papers in Italian. Different extracts from the same d...
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Ottaviano Lotti, Florentine Resident in London and Emissary to Rome: Correspondence with the Tuscan court.: 1611-1612.: Ital.: Copies. Henry Frederick (d, Princes of Wales; 1612): Papers rel. to proposed marriage of, 1611-1612.: 19th cent.: Lat. and Ital.: Copies. Bookplates: Brooke (Sir Thoma...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
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1 item

8. Add MS 48137-48139

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‘Ricordi Politici’, first set.
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Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: L. Marretti, `Ricordi Politici', dedicated to: early 17th cent: Ital: Copies. Political Tracts: L. Marretti, `Ricordi Politici': early 17th cent: Ital: Copies. Lelio Marretti, Secretary to Cardinals Alessandro and Francesco Sforza: `Ricordi Politici': early 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
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3 items

9. Add MS 48140-48142

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'Ricordi Politici', second set. The contents are arranged similarly to Add. MSS. 48137-48139 unless otherwise noted.
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Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: L. Marretti, `Ricordi Politici', dedicated to: early 17th cent: Ital: Copies. Political Tracts: L. Marretti, `Ricordi Politici': early 17th cent: Ital: Copies. Lelio Marretti, Secretary to Cardinals Alessandro and Francesco Sforza: `Ricordi Politici': early 17...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
3 items

10. Add MS 48741

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Vol. XLI (ff. ii+283). General papers; 1459-1785. in Italy. See of Florence: Papers rel. to the right of presentation to benefices: 15th-18th centt.: Lat. and Ital. includes: ff. 34, 36 (draft) Mainardo di Giovanni de' Guazzalotri, at Naples: Petitions to the Grand Duke of Tuscany: 1613, n....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1459-1785
Extent:
1 item