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1. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
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1 item

2. Add MS 8319

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Genoa, Spain, France, Venice, the war of Castro, Savoy, and Portugal; circa 1628-1643. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LXXXV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '529' in very faint ink in fourth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 529 (vol. 85 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilf...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-14 Political Tracts: Genoa; Doges of: Giulio Cesare Vachero, of Genoa: Tract rel. to the Vachero conspiracy: 1628: Ital: Copy. ff. 15-53 Philip IV of Spain: Relazione of Spain: 1638: Ital: Copy. ff. 54-71 Pierre Séguier, Duc de Vil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1628-1643
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8324

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) oration (art. 6) on the Sack of Rome by Giovanni Stafileo, Bishop of Sibenik, 1528; - (b) letter (art. 7) from Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France, to Cardinal Louis de Nogaret d'Epernon de La Valette, Archbishop of Toulouse, relating to...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1623-1644: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 113-118 Clement VII; Pope: Johannes Staphyleus, Bishop of Sibenik: Oration on the Sack of Rome by Johannes Staphyleus: 1528: Lat: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1623-1644
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 8534

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FULVIO DELLA CORNIA: Manifesto; 1643. Italian. Copy. The manifesto was written by Fulvio della Cornia (Della Corgna, Della Corgnia; d. 1647), Duke and Papal governor of Castiglione del Lago, defending his decision to surrender the town to the army of the League formed by Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Ferdinand II de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany, Francis I d'Este, Duke of Modena, and the Republic of Venice, during the so-called War of Castro between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and ...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Cornia, (Fulvio della), Duke of Castiglione del Lago: Manifesto, with appended papers: 1643: Ital: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Venice: Ferdinand II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Francesco I d'E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1643
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8670

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RELAZIONI OF NAPLES AND TENEDOS, a Letter by Francis I of Modena, and the Will of the town of Valenza; 1656. Italian. Copies. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Relatione della Peste di Napoli fatta li 10 Giugno 1656'. This title is followed by three titles added by a later hand relating to arts. 2-4. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '59' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8663, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Limp vellum: aft. 1656. includes: ff. 1-27v Plague, The, and Pestilences: Philip III of Naples and Sicily: Relazione of Naples conc. the plague: 1656: Ital: Copy. ff. 28-35 Venice: Island of Bozca Ada, Turkey: Relazione of Tenedos: 1656: Ital: Copy. ff. 36-39 Valenza, Lombard...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1656
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8700

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IPPOLITO CAMILLO GUIDI: Relazione of Spain and of the Count-Duke of Olivares; circa 1643. Italian. Copy. A relazione of Spain in the 1620s focused on the life and role played in Spanish politics by Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, prime minister and favourite of King Philip IV. The anonymous text has been recognised by A. Morel-Fatio as a relazione presented to Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, by the Dominican Father Ippolito Camillo Guidi, the Modenese envoy to Spain from 1639 t...
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Philip IV of Spain: Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares: Relazione of Spain by I. C. Guidi rel. to: circa 1643: Ital: Copy. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. Francesco I d'Este; Duke of Modena: Ippolito Camillo Guidi, Dominican; Modenese envoy to Spain: Relazione of Spain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1643
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8701

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IPPOLITO CAMILLO GUIDI: Relazione of Spain and Account of the Fall of the Count-Duke of Olivares; circa 1643. Italian, and Spanish. Copy. Two relazioni of Spain by the Dominican Friar Ippolito Camillo Guidi concerning Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares. Guidi was the envoy at Madrid of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, between 1639-1643. The first relazione (ff. 1-156v) concerns Spain in the 1620s and the life and political role played by Olivares (see Add. 8700). It includes letters...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled brown morocco: late 17th-early 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-156v Philip IV of Spain: Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares: Relazione of Spain by I. C. Guidi rel. to: circa 1643: Ital. and Span: Copy. ff. 1-156v Francesco I d'Este; Duke of Modena: Ippolito Camillo Gui...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1643
Extent:
1 item