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Language English Name Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena Place Venice, Italy

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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