Search

Language English Name Innocent X, Pope

11. Add MS 8371

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8371
Title:
LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 8374

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8374
Title:
ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT of the uprising of students in the Jesuit college at Rome in 1647 at the time of Innocent X (1644-1655); circa 1647. Italian. Copy. The student revolt was prompted by the introduction of stricter rules of discipline by Francesco Palazzi, the new dean of the seminary, and encouraged by an heretical student. This student may have been Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695), later renowned as an heretical doctor and alchemist. Borri was in fact expelled from the college in 1647 ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Full vellum: early 19th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Rome; Jesuit College: Account of the uprising of students in the Jesuit College at Rome: 1647: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1647
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 8375

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8375
Title:
LIVES OF THE CARDINALS of Innocent X; 1650. Italian. The work comprises short lifes of the seventy-three cardinals of the Sacred College in 1650, the year of the Jubilee, beginning (ff. 13-16v) with Camillo Pamphili, Cardinal-Nepote of Innocent X and later Prince, and ending (ff. 481v-483v) with Marcello Lanti. The text is a revised and enlarged version of another MS. work entitled La Stadiera de Prencipi Porporati. The work is dedicated (ff. 6-7) to an Italian prince, who had commissioned t...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and flyleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/D): bef. 1828. Biography: Innocent X; Pope: Lives of cardinals in the Jubilee year: 1650: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1650
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 8379

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8379
Title:
COLLECTION of pasquinades and satires current at the elections of the Popes, together with two Lives of Cardinals Mazzarino and Alberoni; 1653-1721. Italian. Copy. Included in the MS. are: poems relating to the death of Clement XI and the following Conclave, 1721 (ff. 1-39); poems relating to the death of Innocent XI and the election of Alexander VIII, 1689 (ff. 39v-45v, 52v-55); poems relating to the Conclave following the death of Alexander VIII, 1691 (ff. 46-52, 55-73v); poems relating to...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and contiguous flyleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: 1817-1827. Poetry ITALIAN: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Satires ITALIAN: Collection of pasquinades and satires current at the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1653-1721
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 8398

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8398
Title:
Scope & Content:
Relazioni of Rome; vol. i; 1535-1660. Paper; ff. 462, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 272. Composite volume: arts. 1, 2, and 4 marked respectively with initials 'D', 'D', 'H' in black ink in upper right corner of first leaves. Modern foliation '1-451' (followed here), omitting no. 126 and on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1535-1660
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 8403

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8403
Title:
ALVISE DI NICOLÒ CONTARINI: Relazione of Rome, followed by anonymous political tract; 1648. Italian. Copy. Art. 1 (ff. ii, 1-25) is the relazione of Rome written by Alvise di Nicolò Contarini, Venetian ambassador at Rome from 1645 to 1648 during the papacy of Pope Innocent X (1644-1655). Other copies in Add. 8398 (art. 5, ff. 247-272), 8406 (art. 2, ff. 111-140), and 16518 (ff. 46-61). Text differs at the end from the relazione published by Barozzi - Berchet, s. iii, v. ii (Venice, 1878), pp...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. ii and iii verso Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 2nd half 18th cent. ff. 1-25 Innocent X; Pope: Francesco da Molin; Doge of Venice: Alvise di Nicolò Contarini, Venetian Ambassador: Relazione of Rome by Alvise di Nicolò C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1648
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 8406

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8406
Title:
RELAZIONI of Rome; 1648-1654. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Rome during the papacy of Innocent X (1644-1655). The authors are the Venetian ambassadors Giovanni Giustinian (art. 1, ff. 2-110), and Alvise di Nicolò Contarini (art. 2, ff. 111-140), and the French ambassador Henri d'Estampes, Bailli de Valençay (art. 3, ff. 141-165v). The MS. also includes (art. 4, ff. 166-205v) a letter from Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi to the Prime Minister of Spain Don Luis Mendez de Haro y ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Relazioni of Rome: 1648-1654: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-110 Giovanni Giustinian, Venetian Ambassador at Rome: Francesco da Molin; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Giustinian: 1651: Ital: Copy. ff. 111-140 France...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1648-1654
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 8416

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8416
Title:
ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES, JULIUS II TO PAUL III, PAUL IV, PIUS IV, URBAN VIII TO ALEXANDER VII, INNOCENT XI TO CLEMENT XI, WITH PAUL II AND SIXTUS IV, NOT BOUND IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE, TOGETHER WITH GENERAL WORKS ON THE CONCLAVE; 1471-1700. Italian and Latin. Copies. Contemporary table of contents 'Tabula Contentorum in hoc libro' (ff. 1-1v). Stamp (f. iii) 'biblioth / H.F. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armor...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboard: 18th cent. includes: ff. 11-13v Sixtus IV; Pope: Account of conclave: 1471: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 14-18v Paul II; Pope: Account of conclave: 1464: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 19-33 Clement VII; Pope: Account of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 8420

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8420
Title:
ACCOUNTS OF THE CONCLAVES AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE ELECTION OF URBAN VIII AND INNOCENT X; 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Index of contents (f. 591). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8368, 8369, 8382, 8391-8396, 8397, 8398, 8399, 8412, 8413, 8417-8419, 8421-8425, 8462, 8487, 8515, 8525, 8660, 8706, 8721, 8722, 8723-8724, 8753, 8754, 8755, 8772,...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboard: 18th cent. includes: ff. 8v-14v Gregory XIII; Pope: Account of conclave: 1572: Ital: Copy. ff. 21-166v Urban VIII; Pope: Accounts of conclave: 1623: Ital: Copies. ff. 167-326v, 350-576 Innocent X; Pope: Accounts rel....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 8428

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8428
Title:
ACCOUNTS OF THE CONCLAVES for the election of Alexander VII, on 7 April 1655, and Innocent X, on 15 Sept. 1644; 1655, 1644. Italian. Copies. Ownership inscription (upper margin of f. 1) with note of acquisition: 'Di Bartolomeo Antinori comprato in fiera fredda quello di 14 febbraio 1669'. Armorial bookplate of Giuseppe Antonio Sassi, 'Ex Bibliotheca Sassi' (front pastedown): for Sassi's bookplate see Bragaglia, vol. ii, no. 485: circa 1715. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Giuseppe Antonio Sassi: bef. 1751. includes: ff. 1-95v Alexander VII; Pope: Account of conclave: 1655: Ital: Copy. ff. 97-147 Innocent X; Pope: Account of conclave: [1644]: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item