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11. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 8321

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RELAZIONI AND DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS relating to the ambassadorial relationships between the papal court and Spain, Florence, France, and Venice, during the Thirty Years War and the papacies of Gregory XV, Urban VIII; circa 1621-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) Italian translation (art. 8) of La liberté glorieuse de Monaco by Charles de Vernasque Ferriol (Paris, 1643), followed by the letter (art. 9) from from Honoré II to Juan de Velasco de la Cueva, Count of S...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Miscellany rel. to ambassadorial relationships with Spain, France, Florence and Venice: circa 1621-1644: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 33-43v Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares: Pedro Fajardo Zúñiga ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1621-1644
Extent:
1 item

13. 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

14. Add MS 8336

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political and satirical papers relating to Germany, Turkey, the Papal Court, Poland, France, Spain, and Venice; 1654-1675. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) satirical dialogues and tracts (arts. 1-2, 4, 6-7, and 34) relating to Germany and the Ottoman Empire, the papal court, and Poland; - (b) relazione (art. 3) of Rome by the French Ambassador Henri d'Estampes, Bailli de Valençay, and letter in reply (art. 5) from Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi to th...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political and satirical papers relating to: 1654-1675: Ital. and French: Copies. includes: ff. 1-35v, 49-66, 79-93, 282-313v, 317-325 Political and satirical tracts: Treatises rel. to Germany, the O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1654-1675
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 8341

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, treatises and other historical papers relating to Rome and its territories, Venice, Spain, France, Savoy, Geneva and Colombia; circa 1558-1724. Italian and Latin. Copies and drafts. The volume was possibly compiled around 1722 during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). With several contemporary corrections and additions throughout. Old shelfmark in ink 'XLIX' in lower spine: possibly identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 49 in Guilford's catalogue Add. ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Papers rel. to: circa 1558-1724: Ital. and Lat.: Copies and drafts. includes: ff. 51-71v Bernardo Navagero, Venetian Ambassador at Venice, Rome and Constantinople; afterwa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1558-1724
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 8342

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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgnano) in anticipation of his return to Rome, circa 1554; - (b) political instructions (art. 2, ff. 97-124v) from Lelio Marretti to a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly identifiable with Francesco de' Medici (1594-1614), brother of Cosimo II: the treati...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Political Tracts: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political tracts rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1574-1610: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-96v Girolamo Savorgnan, Bishop of Sibenik: Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Bishop of Zante; Cardi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1554-1610
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 8343

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to the Papacy and its relations with Poland, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain; 1530-1596. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes: - (a) summary (art. 1, ff. 1-81v) of negotiations between Bonifacio Vannozzi, secretary to Cardinal Enrico Caetani, papal legate at Cracow, and Joannis Tamoscio, Grand Chancellor of Poland: the negotiations led to the Synod of Brest-Litovsk, and the conversion of Orthodox Poles to the Ro...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Historical papers rel. to the Papacy and its relations with Poland, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain: 1530-1596: Ital. and lat: Copies. includes: ff. 1-81v Enrico Caetani, Cardinal: Sigismund III ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 8346

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome and Portugal; 1640-1669. Italian. Copies. The papers relate to the refusal of the Apostolic See to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings and the consequent refusal of the Popes to receive Portuguese ambassadors and approve the nomination of bishops in Portugal after the secession of the country from Spain. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. XCIX' in upper right corner of f. i: identifi...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Portugal General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Historical papers rel. to the Papacy and Portugal: circa 1640-1669: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 107-126 Alexander VII; Pope: Francisco de Sousa Coutinho, Portuguese Ambassador to R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1640-1669
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 8349

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to the Patriarchate of Aquileia; circa 1445-1629. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The collection relates to the dispute between the Emperor Ferdinand II, the Republic of Venice and Pope Urban VIII over the appointment of the Patriarch of Aquileia after the death of Patriarch Agostino Gradenigo in 1629. In the end another Venetian prelate, Marco Gradenigo, was elected, against the wishes of Ferdinand II who wante...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Venice: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Holy Roman Empire: Aquileia, Italy: Papers rel. to the Patriarchate of Aquileia: 1445-1629: Lat. and Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 8354

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RELAZIONI AND HISTORICAL TREATISES relating to France, Savoy, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Spain, Valtelline, Naples, Parma and Piacenza; circa 1546-1670. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (ff. i and i verso), added later. Old shelfmark in ink '14[2]' in fifth spine compartment: possibly identifiable with Mattei MS. 142 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 31. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '336' in pencil in upper left corner of front pasted...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-86v Marino Cavalli, Venetian ambassador to Germany and at Constantinople: Francis I of France: Francesco Donà; Doge of Venice: Relazione of France by Marino Cavalli: [1546]: Ital: Copy. ff. 87-131 Giovanni Correr, Venetian ambassad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1546-1670
Extent:
1 item