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Language Greek, Modern Name Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857

1. Add MS 8220

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Add MS 8220
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CATALOGUES of the Manuscripts and Books of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; after 1817. Greek, Latin, and Italian. For other catalogues of the Guilford collection see Add. 16180, 16181, 16182, 16570, 16572, 16573, 16574, 16575, and 16576. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '540' [possibly meaning 544] in pencil at upper left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8292 (parts), 8564, 8674, 8719, 8786, and possibly 8507, 8536, 8538,...
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Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Catalogues of MSS. and books from the library of the 5th Earl of Guilford: aft. 1817: Gr., ital. and Lat. includes: ff. 3-36v passim Bernardo di Antonio Nani, Venetian bibliophile: Callisto Marini: Mattei Library: Falconieri ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
after 1817
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8289

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A COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts mostly relating to the history of the Church; circa 1602-1704. Italian, Latin and Greek. Partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). Stamp (f. i) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. 'D.V.2' and 'LXXXI' in pencil on f. i. '290' in pencil at center of f. i. Purchased, together with Add. 8344, 8358, 8433, 8688, 8788, and possibly 8416, from R. ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Church of Rome: Miscellaneous tracts mostly rel. to the history of the Church: 17th-18th cent: Ital, Lat and Gr. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1602-1704
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8775

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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

4. 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

5. Add MS 8794

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Add MS 8794
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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Possibly a draft of the collection catalogue in Add. 8795, as the lay-out of the text in the two MSS. is very similar. Another catalogue of the collection in Add. 8796. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Na...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8795

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CATALOGUE OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ART COLLECTIONS OF THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; early 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Copy, late 17th cent. A detailed catalogue of the Medici collections of coins, medals, cameos, bronzes, and marble sculptures. Among other treasures the catalogue includes: - (1) f. 191, cameo with a portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, his wife Eleonora di Toledo and their children made by Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi (now in Florence, Museo degli Argenti), mentioned ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to the Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8796

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Add MS 8796
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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Other catalogues of the same collection in Add. 8794 and 8795. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Nazionale of Bargello (Florence, 1984), pp. xlv-xlvii. Title (f. 1) 'Liber continens nummos antiquos Romanos...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8798

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Add MS 8798
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GIUSEPPE SIMONE ASSEMANI: Commentary on the Tavole Capponiane; circa 1743. Greek, and Latin. Copy. Commentary by the orientalist and later Prefect of the Vatican Library Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1687-1768) on the Calendar of the Greek Church or Menologium as represented in the so-called Tavole Capponiane, five 17th-century panel paintings now in the Vatican collections. The panels were then believed to be of great antiquity (according to Don Roberto Strano of the Acireale Cathedral, they ha...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Art. Miscellaneous: Liturgies GREEK: Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Joseph Simon Assemani, Orientalist and Librarian to the Vatican: Commentary on the Tavole Capponiane by Joseph Simon Assemani: circa 1743: Gr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1743
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 88900/1/26

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Title:
Dod-Exarchos
Scope & Content:
Lord Dudley writes about his purchase of ‘the Berio library’; historian Vincenzo Drago sends copies of his history of Ancient Greece. Mrs H Dod Giulio Domeneghini Carlo Donzelli Ioannis Dourentis Vincenzo Drago Ioannis Draïkis Marco Drasino John Elliott Drinkwater Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1822-1827
Extent:
1 volume