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41. 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

42. Add MS 8332

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and political tracts relating to France, Rome, Germany, Bohemia, and Naples; circa 1619-1660. Italian. One draft (art. 1) and copies. The MS. includes: - (a) letters and treatise (arts. 1-3) relating to Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, and his opposition to Cardinal Giulio Mazarin, Prime Minister of Louis XIV of France, 1653-1660; - (b) manifesto (art. 4) of Prince Frederick Elector Palatine of the Rhine issued after his coronation as King of...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-27v Jean François Paul de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris; Cardinal de Retz 1652: Letter to the archbishops and bishops of France: [1660]: Ital. transl.: Draft. ff. 28-32 Louis XIV of France: Innocent X; Pope: Letter to Innocent X from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1619-1660
Extent:
1 item

43. Add MS 8333

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other political papers relating to Spain, Naples, Liguria, Rome, France and the Empire; circa 1646-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. Among other things the collection contains (arts. 8-15) relazioni and a satirical tract relating to the death of Pope Alexander VII, on 22 May 1667, and the conclave for the election of Clement IX, elected on 20 June 1667. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Ink drawing in the lower margin of f. 2. Old signature '...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Alexander VII; Pope: Clement IX; Pope: Political accounts and satirical papers rel. to: 1667: Ital.: Copies. includes: ff. 2-23v Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Three discourses rel. to the war against the Turks addressed to: circa 1529: Lat: Copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1646-1667
Extent:
1 item

44. 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

45. Add MS 8335

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SATIRICAL TRACTS relating to politics in 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1661-1662. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1v) added later. Old signature 'Tom. CV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. 1: identifiable with Mattei MS. 549 (vol. 105 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8333, 8334, 8336, 8...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political and satirical tracts: Satirical tracts rel. to politics in 17th-cent. Europe: circa 1661-1662: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1661-1662
Extent:
1 item

46. 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

47. 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

48. Add MS 8345

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political treatises relating to Rome, France, Spain, and Portugal; circa 1631-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) satirical tract (art. 1) against Alexander VII; - (b) relazioni and political treatises (arts. 2-6, 10-11) relating to the dispute between France and the Papacy that arose after the attack on the French Ambassador at Rome, Charles de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui, by the papal Corsican Guards on 20 Aug. 1662; - (c) speec...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political tracts rel. to France, Spain, Portugal and the Papal Court: circa 1631-1667: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. Louis XIV of France: Alexander VII; Pope: Tracts rel. to: circa 1631-1667: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 29-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1631-1667
Extent:
1 item

49. 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

50. Add MS 8347

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Title:
POLITICAL TREATISES relating to Rome, France and Tuscany; circa 1662-1664. Italian. Copies. Most of the present treatises (arts. 1-4) relate to the dispute between France and the Papacy that arose after the attack on the French Ambassador at Rome, Charles de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui, by the papal Corsican Guards on 20 Aug. 1662. The quarrel almost led to war between France and the Papacy and ended only with the acceptance by Alexander VII of the Treaty of Pisa, signed on 12 Feb. 1664. Art....
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Louis XIV of France: Political Tracts: Alexander VII; Pope: Political tracts rel. to France and the Papacy: circa 1662-1664: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-144v Charles III de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui; French Ambassador at Rome: Political treati...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1662-1664
Extent:
1 item