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2. Add MS 8305
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- Add MS 8305
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- MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies. Including (art. 7, ff. 75-85) an anonymous commentary on the first book of the Historiae by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LI' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '495.' in ink in ...
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- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political and historical tracts: circa 1563-1621: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-5 Switzerland: Relazione of: circa 1562-1564: Ital: Copy. ff. 6-10 Pius V; Pope: Discourse rel. to papal authority: circa 1569: Ital: Copy. ff. 11-2...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1562-1621
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 8329
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- Add MS 8329
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- MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; - (b) discourse, letter and terms of agreement (arts. 2, 6-7) relating to the reconciliation of the Barberinis with Pope Innocent X, 1646; - (c) speech (art. 3) on Tuscany's neutrality addressed to Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Traiano Ma...
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- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff.2-41 John IV of Portugal: Manifesto: 1647: Ital: Copy. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Innocent X; Pope: Historical papers rel. to his agreement with the Barberinis: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Barberini family; of Rome: Historical pape...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1619-1649
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 8334
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- Add MS 8334
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- POLITICAL ADVICE AND RELAZIONI relating to the Papal Court and Spain; circa 1659-1660. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes anonymous and undated political advice (art. 1) to an unnamed Cardinal-Nepote on how to ingratiate the College of Cardinals, the relazione of Spain (art. 2) presented by the ambassador Domenico Zane to the Venetian Senate in 1659, and the relazione of Rome (art. 3) presented to the Venetian Senate by Angelo Correr in 1660. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatu...
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- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Alexander VII; Pope: Political advice and relazioni rel. to the Papal Court and Spain: circa 1659-1660: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-11v Political Tracts: Political advice to an unnamed Cardinal-Nepote: 17th cent: Ital: Copy. ff. 12-99 Philip IV...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1659-1660
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 8359
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- Add MS 8359
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- POLITICAL INSTRUCTIONS to secretaries; after 1661. Italian and Latin. Instructions to secretaries of reigning princes, followed by models for letters, mainly relating to the Jesuits and their readmission into the territories of the Venetian Republic in 1661. Title (f. 2) 'Avvertimenti Politici e utilissimi per Signori che intraprendono affari de' Prencipi per tirare ad ottime fine ogni trattato, tanto in materia di Guerra, come ogn'altro affare domestico', inc. (f. 3) 'Se il potere e sapere ...
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- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Formularies: Political Tracts: Political instructions to secretaries, with model letters: aft. 1661: Ital. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 50-63 Orders Religious. Jesuits: Model letters, rel. to: aft. 1661: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. ff. 55-63 Venice...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- after 1661
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 8544
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- 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
7. Add MS 8575
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- Add MS 8575
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- MARIN SANUDO THE YOUNGER: Chronicle of Venice and Lives of the Doges from the origins to 1428; 18th cent. Italian. Imperfect. Sanudo compiled his chronicle around 1522-1523 and continued to insert additional notes up to 1530. After a brief introductory account of the origins of the town in 421, the chronicle describes the history of the Venetian republic through the lives of the doges, often supplying documentary evidence in form of dogal letters, diplomatic acts, papal bullae, peace and all...
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- Venice: Chronicles: Marin Sanudo, the younger; chronicler: Venice; Doges of: Chronicle of Venice and Lives of Doges to 1428 by Marin Sanudo: 18th cent.: Ital: Copy. Imperf. includes: f. 4 Astrology: Astrological chart for Venice in the year 421: 18th cent.: Ital.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 8597
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- Add MS 8597
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- Statutes of Adria; 16th-17th cent. Latin and Italian. Mostly copies. Statutes of the town of Adria issued by Leonello d'Este, Marquess of Ferrara (1441-1450), in 1442 (ff. 15-80). These statutes are followed by: (a) later edicts of Leonello and his successors Borso and Ercole I, dated 1446-1480 (ff. 80-91), including one edict of Eleanor of Aragon, wife of Ercole I, dated 1478 (ff. 90v-91); - (b) letters of privileges, additions and amendments to the statutes issued by the Venetian Republic,...
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- Law of Italy: Statutes, privileges etc., of Adria: 1442-1667: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Legal material: Statutes, privilegies, and edicts rel. to Adria: 1442-1667: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/A): bef. 1828. Bindings: Quarter morocco binding with ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- 16th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 8604
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- Add MS 8604
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- Correspondence of Sultan Murad III and Bosnian officials relating to the borders of Dalmatia; 1575-1591. Italian translation. Collection of official copies of correspondence relating to the borders between Venetian and Turkish dominions in Dalmatia that was given to Venetian officials. The correspondence cover the years 1575-1591, before the war between Austria and Turkey (1593-1602), and the territorial assessments mainly concern the territories of Sibenik, Split and Zadar. The letters of M...
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- Murad III; Sultan of Turkey: Dalmatia: Venice; Doges of: Correspondence of Turkish officials rel. to the borders of Dalmatia: 1576-1591: Ital. transl.: Copies. includes: ff. 2-3 Murad III; Sultan of Turkey: Bosnia: Orders and letters rel. to Bosnia: 1587: Ital. transl.: Copies. ff. 2-3, 61-74 ...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1575-1591
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 8605
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- Add MS 8605
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- Relazioni to the Venetian Senate relating to Dalmatia, Candia, Albania, Corfu, Zante, and Cephalonia; late 16th cent-17th cent. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. is described in C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, t. xi (1906), pt. ii, no. cv, pp. 192-193, listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 332, p. 23, and mentioned in Markotic, p. 267. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '355' in ...
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- Venice: Venice; Doges of: Relazioni to the Venetian Senate rel. to Dalmatia, Crete, Albania, Corfu, Zante and Cephalonia: late 16th cent.-17th cent.: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-13 Dalmatia: Nicolò Donà, Venetian Provveditore Generale of Dalmatia and Albania: Albania: Relazioni of Dalmatia a...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item