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261. Add MS 8509

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MARIO COMPAGNONI MAREFOSCHI: Relazione of Piperno; 1742. Italian. Signed. Account of the visitation of Piperno (now Priverno) in the diocese of Terracina, Sezze and Priverno (near Latina) by Monsignor Marefoschi. He had been appointed referendary of the two Signatures (Justice and Grace), ponente del Buon Governo (i.e. member of a congregation charged with the direction of municipal affairs), and Visitor Apostolic in 1740 by Pope Benedect XIV (1740-1758). Inspecting the parishes and institut...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Benedict XIV; Pope: Mario Marefoschi Compagnoni, Cardinal 1770: Piperno, Italy: Relazione of Piperno by Mario Marefoschi Compagnoni: 1742: Ital: Signed. includes: f. 100 Marco Bartolaccini, of Piperno: Letter: 1743: autogr.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1742
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1 item

262. Add MS 8510

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RELAZIONE OF THE GRASCIA; mid 18th cent (see watermark on f. v: coat-of-arms, similar to Heawood, no. 803: Subiaco 1761-1763). Italian. Copy. Anonymous Relazione of the Grascia, the board in charge of the quality and price of provisions in the Papal territories. Title (f. 1) 'Raccolta delle notizie più particolarità che riguardano la Presidenza della Grascia / Tomo unico', inc. (f. 2) 'La Presidenza della Grascia è di un'autorità grandissima', expl. (f. 89) 'e i prezzi non solo si sostenevan...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Quarter leather binding over pasteboards with decorated paper covers: mid 18th cent. Trade and Commerce: Agriculture: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Relazione of the Grascia: mid 18th cent.: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Mid 18th century
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1 item

263. Add MS 8511

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LIVES of the Dukes of Urbino, and Accounts of the disputed right of succession to the duchy; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. The MS. contains: - (a) art. 1, ff. 1-88v, an anonymous life of Federico II da Montefeltro (1422-1482); - (b) art. 2, ff. 89-116, the autobiography of the last Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1548-1631); - (c) art. 2, ff. 116-164v (following Francesco Maria's autobiography without break) the relazione of Urbino written for Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) by the Venetia...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum over pasteboards: early 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/20/B): bef. 1828. Urbino; Duchy of; in Italy: Biography: Lives of the Dukes of Urbino and Account of the Right of Succession to the Duchy: 17th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

264. Add MS 8512

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CUSTOMS OF THE LATIN EASTERN EMPIRE: attested copy of a collection of the customs and statutes of the Latin Eastern Empire in the use of the principality of Achaea circa 1221-1228; 24 July 1423. Italian and Latin. This collection of 219 customs and statutes of the Latin Eastern Empire apparently relates to an occasion when Geoffrey I de Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea (1209-1226/31), made peace with the Latin Emperor, Robert of Courtenay (1221-1228), paid homage to him and was confirmed in h...
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Geoffrey I de Villehardouin, Prince of Achaea: Customs of the Latin Eastern Empire in Achaea circa 1221-1228: 1423: Ital. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/B): early 19th cent. Manuscripts, Dated: Law ROMAN: Achaea, Greece: Francisco Blancho, notary: Eastern Empire: Custom...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
24 Jul 1423
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1 item

265. Add MS 8513

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PIRRO LIGORIO: Description of Tivoli and its villas; mid 16th cent. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. The description of the town of Tivoli and its Roman villas written by Pirro Ligorio (circa 1510-1583), architect and garden designer, painter, and antiquarian from Naples. Ligorio started escavating in Tivoli in 1549 at request of the governor of the town, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1509-1572). The text in the present MS. is a shorter version of that in Add. 22001, ff. 2-42. The MS. is listed in Palm...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Architecture: Archaeology: Antiquities: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Ippolito II d' Este, Cardinal of Ferrara; Archbishop of Milan: Pirro Ligorio, Architect and Antiquarian: Tivoli, Italy: Description of Tivoli and its villas addressed to Card. d'E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

266. Add MS 8514

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GIOVANNI GUIDICCIONI, ALESSANDRO FARNESE: Letters; 1534-1540, 1549-1560. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. A collection of letters of Monsignor Giovanni Guidiccioni (art. 1-2, ff. 1-40) and of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese the younger (art. 3, ff. 41-180v), the composition of which is attributed to Annibal Caro. Giovanni Guidiccioni (1500-1541), was an accomplished man of letters of Lucca and a loyal servant of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549). The pope appointed him governor of Rome, papal nuncio ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Letters: Letters of G. Guidiccioni and Card. A. Farnese, attributed to A. Caro: 1534-1560: Ital: Copies, 17th cent. Annibale Caro, humanist: Letters of G. Guidiccioni and A. Farnese, attributed to: 1534-1560: Ital: Copies, 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

267. Add MS 8515

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DE NORES LETTERS; 1591-1601, 1628-1632. Italian and Latin. Copies. Copies of letters and dispatches of the historian Pietro De Nores, son of Giason, the exiled Cypriot philosopher and literary critic (on the latter see DBI 38 (1990), pp. 768-773). The MS. is divided into two sections: the first (art. 1, ff. 2-143) contains De Nores' letters to various correspondents, dated 12 Dec. 1591 - 8 July 1601; the second (art. 2, ff. 144-320) contains De Nores' dispatches from Rome to his patron Cardi...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/E): bef. 1828. Pietro De Nores, historian: Letter-Book: 1591-1601, 1628-1632: Ital. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 2-143 passim Giovanni Vincenzo Pinelli, of Venice; bibliophile and scientis...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1591-1632
Extent:
1 item

268. Add MS 8516

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COLLECTION OF LETTERS to Maffeo Albertini of Verona; 1606. Italian. Collection of original letters with paper seals sent in the year 1606 by various correspondents to Maffeo Albertini of Verona (not to be confused with Maffeo Albertini, presbyter and author of a religious treatise against protestants together with Giovanni del Bene, entitled Confirmatione et stabilimento di tutti li dogmi catholici... (Venice, 1553). The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 1298, p. 100, and in Iter Italic...
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Seals: Letters to M. Albertini: 1606: Ital. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Ital. Maffeo Albertini, of Verona: Letters to: 1606: Ital. includes: ff. 12-14 Poetry ITALIAN: Astolfo Bardini, of Florence: Poems in praise...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1606
Extent:
1 item

269. Add MS 8517

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AGUCCHI LETTER-BOOK; 1621-1623. Italian. Copies. Register of letters by Monsignor Giovanni Battista Agucchi (1570-1632), Secretary of State of Pope Gregory XV Ludovisi (1621-1623), written on behalf of the pope and of Cardinal Nepote Ludovico Ludovisi. The letters, dating 15 Feb. 1621 - 12 July 1623, cover all through Ludovisi's pontificate. Recipients include Louis XIII of France and Philip IV of Spain, Ranuccio I Duke of Parma and other Italian princes, Cardinals Francesco Cennini de' Sala...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 2nd half 17th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. Philip IV of Spain: Louis XIII of France: Giacinto da Casale, Capuchin: Gómez Suárez de Figueroa e Cordova, Duque de la Feria; Governor of Milan: Francesco Cennini de' Salamandri, Patriar...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1621-1623
Extent:
1 item

270. Add MS 8518

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CASALI NOTE-BOOK and other papers; circa 1624-1627, 1648, 1527. Italian and Latin. Partly autograph. Collection of notes and letter-drafts by Giovanni Battista Casali (1578-1648), camerarius of S. Trinità dei Pellegrini in Rome, ecclesiastical historian and archaeologist. The MS. also includes (art. 2, ff. 132-141v) an anonymous religious treatise offered to Casali, and (art. 3, ff. 142-157v) a decree of Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) relating to ecclesiastical buildings. Another work by Casal...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th-early 18th cent. Giovanni Battista Casali, of Rome; ecclesiastical historian and archaeologist: Note-Book: circa 1624-1648: Ital. and Lat: Partly autogr. includes: ff. 132-141v Theology: Treatise offered to G. B. Casali: 1648: Lat: Copy. ff. 142-157v C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1527-1648
Extent:
1 item

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