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661. Add MS 8765

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CARAFA LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to and from Pier Luigi Carafa as papal nuncio to Cologne (15 June 1624 - 20 Nov. 1634); 1625-1634. Italian, French, and Latin. Copies, partly autograph. Most dispatches were written by or addressed to Cardinal Nepote Francesco Barberini and Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Cardinal of St. Onofrio and brother of Pope Urban VIII. Other correspondents include Cardinal Giulio Mazarin, Jacqueline de Bueil, Comtesse de Moret, Marquise de Vardes and mistress of...
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Urban VIII; Pope: Carafa Letter-Books: 1624-1642: Ital: Signed, partly copies: partly autograph. Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Cologne, Germany: Carafa Letter-books rel. to: 1624-1642: Ital. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum, detached: 17th cent. Pier Luigi Carafa, Bishop of Tricarico; Cardin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1634
Extent:
1 item

662. Add MS 8774

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CHIGI LETTER-BOOK: Register of correspondence of Fabio Chigi, Bishop of Nardò and future Pope Alexander VII, when envoy extraordinary of Pope Innocent X to the conference of Münster (1644 - 1651); 1644-1650. Italian, Latin, and French. Register copies, partly in cipher. Correspondents include the papal nuncios Giulio Rospigliosi at Madrid and Niccolò Guidi del Bagno at Paris (passim), Alvise Contarini, the former Venetian Ambassador Extraordinary at the Congress of Münster (ff. 591-665 passi...
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Treaties: Chigi Letter-book rel. to: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr.: Copies. Innocent X; Pope: Letter-book of F. Chigi as papal nuncio: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr: Copies. Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Chigi Letter-book rel. to: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr: Copies. Giulio Rospigli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1644-1650
Extent:
1 item

663. Add MS 8775

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FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters and dispatches to and from Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 - 3 Nov. 1674); 1672-1675. Italian, French, and Greek. Partly copies, mostly in cipher. Correspondents include Lorenzo Magalotti, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, possibly Girolamo Alberti, the Venetian correspondent at London, and perhaps Opizio Pallavicini, nuncio at Cologne, Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, nephew and prime minister of Pope Cleme...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Ottavio Falconieri, Abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole; Internuncio at Brussels: Letter-books: 1672-1676: Ital., Fr., and Gr. includes: ff. 8, 59 (frag.) Conte Lorenzo Magalotti, Counsellor to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany: Letters to O. Falconie...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1672-1675
Extent:
1 item

664. Add MS 8776

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FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters to Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 - 3 Nov. 1674); 1673-1676. Italian, and French. Mostly autograph and in cipher. The collection includes letters sent to Falconieri after his return to Rome and sudden death on 15 Nov. 1675. The authors of most of the letters are an anonymous correspondent at London and the Florentine diplomat and man of letters Lorenzo Magalotti (art. 2). The anonymous correspond...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Ottavio Falconieri, Abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole; Internuncio at Brussels: Letter-books: 1672-1676: Ital., Fr., and Gr. includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770. ff. 20-54v, 56-231 Conte Lorenzo Magalotti, Couns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1673-1676
Extent:
1 item

665. Add MS 8777

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TOMMASO AREZZO: Relazione of the Catholic Church in Russia; 1806-1807. Italian, French and Latin. Copy. Tommaso Arezzo, titular Archbishop of Seleucia, was named nuncio to Russia in 1802, when diplomatic relations between Pope Pius VII and Emperor Alexander I were established. In St. Petersburg Arezzo tried unsuccessfully to resolve the disagreements on matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. In June 1804 the so-called Vernègues affair caused a definitive rupture in the relations between the...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Alexander I of Russia: Pius VII; Pope: Tommaso Arezzo, Archbishop of Seleucia; Cardinal 1816: Church of Russia: Relazione of Catholic Church in Russia by Tommaso Arezzo: 1806-1807: Ital, Fr., and Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1806-1807
Extent:
1 item

666. Add MS 8782

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JOHANN GUSTAV MAGNUS STRANDMAN: Historical essays on ancient trades with Asia; 1808. French. Copy. Three historical essays on commercial relations between Oriental Europe and Russia with Asia and the Indies in ancient times by the German diplomat, historian, archeologist, and geographer Johann Gustav Magnus Strandman (1784-1842). Other papers relating to him among the Lieven Papers in Add. 47288 (ff. 82, 118), Add. 47289 A (ff. 10, 169, 176, 182), Add. 47289 B (ff. 12, 34, 46), Add. 47293 A ...
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Bindings: Quarter binding of red leather with decorated paper covers: 1807-1808. Bookplates and Book-stamps: J. G. M. de Strandman: 1807-1808. Trade and Commerce: Russia General: East Indies: Johann Gustav Magnus Strandman, Russian diplomatist: Three historical essays on trade with Asia by Joh...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
1808
Extent:
1 item

667. Add MS 8808

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COLLECTION OF POLITICAL TREATISES; late 15th-18th cent. Latin, Italian, and French. Partly autograph. Acquisition note (f. 17) relating to art. 4 (ff. 18-59v) 'Comperato nella vendita dei libri del Commendator Buondelmonti'. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/A' (front pastedown). '521' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8761, 8762, 8809, and 8810, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 521 (part). Paper; ff. 59+ii, plus ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/A): bef. 1828. Political Tracts: Collection of: late 15th-18th cent.: Lat., Ital., and Fr: Partly autograph. includes: ff. 1-6 Ermolao Barbaro, Venetian Ambassador and Patriarch of Aquileia:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

668. Add MS 10146

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THE COUSTUMIER. of Bordeaux, containing the laws and privileges of the city, and the charters granted by various kings of France and England, to the time of Louis XI., with the Coustumier of Oléron; written partly in the dialect of Bordeaux, partly in Latin. On vellum, of the xvth century. Folio. [10,146.]
Scope & Content:
Island of Oléron, France: The Coustumier of,: partly in French, partly Lat. Bordeaux, France: The Coustumier, with the charters of the city, to the reign of Louis XI.: in Fr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

669. Add MS 10241

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REPRESENTACIONE hecha al Rey por la junta de doce ministros de diferentes tribunales, sobre la jurisdiccion que exercen los Inquisidores en perjuicio de la jurisdiccion real, y la providencia que debe darse para el remedio;-Relacion individual de todo el hecho en lo succedido tocante a los hechizos del rey Don Carlos segundo, y causa de Fr. Froylan Diaz, Obispo electo de Avila, etc. xviith cent. Folio. [10,241.]
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Charles II of Spain: Relacion de todo el hecho en lo succedido tocante a los hechizos del rey Don Carlos II., y causa de Fr. Fr. Diaz, Obispo electo de Avila, etc. Inquisition: Representacione hecha al Rey, sobre la jurisdiccion que exercen los Inquisidores. Froylan Diaz, Bishop Elect of Avila...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

670. Add MS 10292-10294/1

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Title:
Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle)
Scope & Content:
The entire French Lancelot-Grail (The Prose Vulgate Cycle) in four separate volumes (order separately): Add MS 10292: L'estoire del Saint Graal; L'estoire de Merlin. Add MS 10293: The Lancelot propre. Add MS 10294: La Queste del Saint Graal; Morte Artu. Add MS 10294/1: The first folio from A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French and French, Old
Date Range:
1316
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A parchment codex divided into 4 volumes

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