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641. Add MS 8550

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RELATIONS BY VENETIAN AMBASSADORS and other papers relating to Savoy; 1573-1743. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Savoy by the Venetian Ambassadors Francesco da Molin (art. 1, ff. 1-16), Francesco Barbaro (art. 2, ff. 17-51), Girolamo Lippomano (art. 3, ff. 52-81v), Francesco Priuli (art. 5, ff. 84-136v), and Marco Foscarini (art. 13, ff. 213-278v). It also includes a copy of an undated agreement between the King of Spain and the Swiss Cantons (art. 4, ff. 82-83)...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Duchy of Savoy: Kingdom of Sardinia: Relations by Venetian ambassadors and other papers rel. to: 1573-1743: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-16 Francesco da Molin, Venetian Ambassador; Doge of Venice 1646: Relazione of Savoy: [1574]: Ital: Copy. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1573-1743
Extent:
1 item

642. Add MS 8556

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE ECCLESIASTICAL CONTROVERSIES between the House of Savoy and the Papacy in the 1720s and 1730s; 1698-1733. Italian, Latin and French. Copies, partly printed. Contemporary table of contents (ff. 1-3). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased from R.H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot no. unknown. Paper; ff. 847+i (modern foliation in pencil, followed here). Old foliation in ink '1-451' (beginning on f. 396). Composite volume. ...
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Piedmont: Clement XII; Pope: Sardinia, King of. Victor Amadeus I: Sardinia, King of. Charles Emmanuel I: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical affairs in Piedmont: 1698-1733: Ital., Lat., and Fr: Copies, partly printed. includes: ff. 5-40v. Printed Matter: Defense du Siege Apostolique contre les conco...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1698-1733
Extent:
1 item

643. Add MS 8626

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DENIS VOUZZANESSY: Discours sur les mœurs des habitans des Isles Ioniennes; 1810. French. Autograph. A philosophical tract on human nature and contemporary politics in Greece. Inc. (f. 3) 'Discours sur le mœurs des habitans des Isles Ioniennes / Précedé de quelque remarques critiques et philosophiques / Il y a dans la nature humaine un fond de grandeur', expl. (f. 15v) 'frapper d'admiration la postérité la plus reculée'. Presented by the author to the Hon. Frederick North in 1810, with a not...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/C): bef. 1828. Ionian Islands: Political Tracts: Denis Vouzzanessy: Greece: Discours sur les moeurs des habitans des Isles Ioniennes, by Denis Vouzzanessy: 1810: Fr: Autogr. includes: f. 2 Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Letter of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1810
Extent:
1 item

644. Add MS 8649

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RELAZIONI OF CONSTANTINOPLE, ETC.; 1637-1745. Italian and French. Mostly copies. Partly imperfect. Each item numbered later with a roman numeral at beginning. Two tables of contents (ff. 1, 141). The MS. is described by Foligno, anno 6, t. xi (1906), pt. ii, no. civ, pp. 191-192. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased, together with Add. 8645, 8651, 8652, 8653, and possibly 8646, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 358 (part). Paper; ff....
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Turkey; General: City of Constantinople: Venice: Relazioni of Constantinople: 1637-1745: Ital. includes: ff. 2-8, 203-205v Ahmad III; Sultan of Turkey: Mustafa II; Sultan of Turkey: Two relazioni of the Janissaries revolt: 1703: Ital. ff. 10-56v Murad IV; Sultan of Turkey: Relazione of Constan...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1637-1745
Extent:
1 item

645. Add MS 8703

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COLLECTION OF RELACIONES AND PAPERS RELATING TO PHILIP IV AND CHARLES II; late 17th cent. Spanish and Italian. Copies. Tracts and letters relating to the death of Philip IV, the minority of Charles II and the contest between Don Juan José of Austria, son of Philip IV, and Father Juan Everardo Nitardo, Grand Inquisitor of Spain and Confessor to the Queen Regent Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip and mother of Charles II. Title (f. 1) 'Breve Relaçion De la Muerte del Rey Catholico Phelipe Qua...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum on pasteboards: late 17th cent. Philip IV of Spain: Charles II of Spain: Netherlands, Governors of. Don John of Austria: Mariana, 2nd wife of Philip IV of Spain: Johann Eberhard von Neidhart, Jesuit; General of the Spanish Inquisition; Cardinal 1672: Tracts and let...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

646. Add MS 8718

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS RELATING TO THE ASSEMBLY OF THE ESTATES GENERAL OF FRANCE; circa 1568-1587. French and Latin. Copies. Papers relating to the Assembly of the Estates General and the religious wars during the reigns of Charles IX (1560-1574) and Henry III (1574-1589). Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. 1, 167v and i verso (for the Colonna library stamp see Bragaglia, vol. iii, T 32: c. 1750). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armori...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Vellum on pasteboard: 17th cent. Protestants: Charles IX of France: Henry III of France: Papers rel. to the Assembly of the Estates General: circa 1568-1587: Fr. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 23-26v Henri de Montmoren...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1568-1587
Extent:
1 item

647. Add MS 8719

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS, in prose and verse, relating to France; 1574-1589. French, and Latin. Copies. Satirical verses and other papers relating to the reign of Henry III (1574-1589), together with contemporary copies of about 10 letters of the period. Title (reversed on f. 1v) by a later hand ‘avril 1585. / Verses et Lebelles contre Henry 3. et toute la cour’, with remark ‘Bon a Imprimer’. Vellum flyleaf (ff. 1-1v) from a 14th cent. French MS. containing a fragment of Bartholus de Saxoferrato...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Poetry FRENCH: Political and Satirical Poems: Henry III of France: Miscellaneous papers, in prose and verse rel. to: circa 1574-1589: Fr: Copies. includes: ff. 1-1v Heraldry: Bartholus de Saxoferrato, Perusinus Doctor: De insignis et armis (frag....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1574-1589
Extent:
1 item

648. Add MS 8730

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Title:
COLLECTION OF 87 AVVISI TO THE PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FROM FRANCE; 1624-1627. Italian, Latin, and French. Partly copies, partly in cipher. Imperfect. The avvisi list miscellaneous news (wars and politics, trade, gossip and natural events) and were sent as enclosures to the nuncio's weekly reports to Rome. The present MS. contains a collection of avvisi sent together with his dispatches by Bernardino Spada, papal nuncio to France between 30 Dec. 1623 – 27 Feb. 1627. The dispatches cover the...
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Louis XIII of France: Newsletters From France: Bernardino Spada, Archbishop of Damietta; nuncio to France; Cardinal 1626: Avvisi di Francia, etc.,: 1624-1627: Ital., Lat. and Fr: Partly copies and in cipher. Imperfect. includes: f. 30-31v Girolamo Gori: Letter to Card. B. Spada: 1624: Ital: Au...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1624-1627
Extent:
1 item

649. Add MS 8734

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GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. I: Dispatches from Cardinal Panciroli; 17 Sept. 1644 - 28 Dec. 1648. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Imperfect. Inc. (f. 1) 'A Monsignor de Bagni Nuntio in Francia / S'inviano a Vostra Signoria in questo dispaccio due Lettere ... Roma li 17 settembre 1644. Dal Sign...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17 Sep 1644-28 Dec 1648
Extent:
1 item

650. Add MS 8734-8735

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Add MS 8734-8735
Title:
GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches and letters to Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France (25 June 1643 - Dec. 1656); 1644-1656
Scope & Content:
Italian. Copies. Imperfect. The dispatches were sent from the Secretaries of State Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli (d. 1 Sept. 1651), Fabio Chigi (elected Pope Alexander VII in 1655), and Giulio Rospigliosi, and from cardinal-nepote Camillo Astalli, known as Cardinal Pamphili (dismissed from office o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1644-1656
Extent:
2 items

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