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281. Add MS 8532

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DONATO GIANNOTTI: 'Della republica fiorentina'; circa 1531-1538. Italian. Copy, late 17th cent. Historical account of the Republic of Florence (1527-1530) by the political writer Donato Giannotti (1492-1573), dedicated to his patron Cardinal Niccolò Ridolfi. The text was written mainly in 1531, with corrections and additions up to 1538. The autograph MS. is now Florence, Bibl. Nazionale, MS. Magliabechiano XXX, 230; a contemporary copy with autograph revisions in Florence, Bibl. Marucelliana...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Niccolò Ridolfi, Cardinal: 'Della republica fiorentina' by D. Giannotti, dedicated to: circa 1531-1538: Ital: Copy, late 17th cent. Donato Giannotti, Florentine political writer: Florence, Italy: Political Tracts: 'Della republica fiorentina' by D...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century
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1 item

282. Add MS 8533

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DOCUMENTS relating to Synods and Episcopal Constitutions of the Florentine diocese; 1478, 1508, 1327. Latin and Italian. Copies, early 18th cent. The first two documents (arts. 1-2, ff. 1-21) relate to the Pazzi conspiracy against the rulers of Florence, Lorenzo and Giuliano de' Medici, and the consequent interdict laid on Florence by Sixtus IV in 1478. Art. 3 (ff. 22-112, 129v-170) is a copy of the episcopal constitutions of Florence published by Cosimo de' Pazzi, Archbishop of Florence, in...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/C): bef. 1828. Law CANON: Diocese of Florence: Synods and episcopal constitutions of Florence: 1327-1508: Lat. and Ital: Copies, early 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-17 Rinaldo Orsini, Bishop of Florence: Manifesto of the Florentine synod: 14...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 18th century
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1 item

283. Add MS 8534

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FULVIO DELLA CORNIA: Manifesto; 1643. Italian. Copy. The manifesto was written by Fulvio della Cornia (Della Corgna, Della Corgnia; d. 1647), Duke and Papal governor of Castiglione del Lago, defending his decision to surrender the town to the army of the League formed by Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma and Piacenza, Ferdinand II de' Medici, Duke of Tuscany, Francis I d'Este, Duke of Modena, and the Republic of Venice, during the so-called War of Castro between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and ...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Cornia, (Fulvio della), Duke of Castiglione del Lago: Manifesto, with appended papers: 1643: Ital: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Venice: Ferdinand II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Francesco I d'E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1643
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1 item

284. Add MS 8535

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CARAFA LETTER-BOOK; 1713-1717. Italian and Latin. Copies. Register of letters from Pier Luigi Carafa, Archbishop of Larissa, to Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci de' Calboli, Secretary of State of Clement XI (1700-1721), relating to the Apostolic nunciature to Tuscany. For Carafa see DBI, 19 (1976), pp. 599-601. Inc. (f. 10) 'Primo Spaccio alla Segreteria di Stato spedito a 24 settembre 1713 / Ieri sera giunsi felicemente in questa Dominante', expl. (f. 128v) 'Spaccio in data de 25 maggio 1717 / Ac...
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Clement XI; Pope: Cosimo III; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Letter-book of nuncio P. L. Carafa: 1713-1717: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Pier Luigi Carafa, Archbishop of Larissa; Cardinal 1728; Governor of Ancona: Letter-book rel. to Tuscany: 1713-1717: Ital. a...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1713-1717
Extent:
1 item

285. Add MS 8536

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TRACTS relating to the commerce and agriculture of Tuscany; circa 1766-1768. Italian. Copies. The tracts relate to the survey of the economic conditions of Tuscany promoted in Nov. 1766 by Grand Duke Leopold I of Hapsburg Lorraine (1765-1790). The first and third tracts (arts. 1 and 3) are anonymous; the second tract (art. 2) is by Giovanni Battista Bonsi, depositario of Cortona before 1769 (in 1769 the position was occupied by Cavalier Venuti: cf. Pietro Leopoldo d'Asburgo Lorena, Relazioni...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Trade and Commerce: Agriculture: Leopold I; Grand Duke of Tuscany; Duke of Lorraine, later Emperor Leopold II: Tracts rel. to the commerce and agriculture of Tuscany: circa 1766-1768: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 91-101, 102-112 Maremma, Tuscany: ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1766-1768
Extent:
1 item

286. Add MS 8537

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STATUTES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE AND PISA; late 15th cent. Latin and Italian. In December 1472 Lorenzo de' Medici reorganised the University of Florence, founded in 1321, and the University of Pisa, founded in 1343, to form the combined University of Florence and Pisa. The new university reopened in 1473 with the 'Studio Repubblicano', a small faculty of rhetoric and poetry, in Florence and the much larger 'Studio Generale' in Pisa. This manuscript includes (ff. 1-4v) the statutes rela...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Gold-tooled leather: early 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/D): early 19th cent. in Italy. University of Florence: in Italy. University of Pisa: Statutes of the University of Florence and Pisa: late 15th cent: Lat. and Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

287. Add MS 8538

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PAPERS relating to the della Gherardesca and Strozzi families in Tuscany; 1738-1771. Italian and Latin. Drafts and copies. Arts. 1-7 (ff. 1-136v) relate to the controversy (1769-1775) between the Counts della Gherardesca and the Exchequer Court of Tuscany at the time of Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany (1765-1790): arts. 2, 4, and 6 are annotated copies of relazioni issued by the Exchequer Court against the Counts, while arts. 1, 3, 5, and 7 are drafts of papers in their defence. The hand of ...
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Migliorotto Maccioni, Jurist and Professor at Pisa University: Papers rel. to the controversy between the Counts della Gherardesca and the Exchequer Court of Tuscany, compiled by (?): 1770-1771: Ital. and Lat.: Partly autograph?. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Revenue: Leopold ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1738-1771
Extent:
1 item

288. Add MS 8539

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GUIDO PANCIROLI: Annals of Reggio Emilia; 1560. Italian translation by Giovanni Boschi, 1694. Copy. Guido Panciroli (1523-1599), jurist and writer, wrote his chronicle of the town of Reggio Emilia, his town, from the foundation to the year 1560, or Rerum Regiensium Libri VIII, around 1560. The present MS. contains the translation into Italian by Giovanni Boschi, commissioned by Carlo Gonzaga, Count of Novellara, and completed in 1694 (see colophon, f. 490). According to Boschi (f. 490), the ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/C): bef. 1828. Reggio Emilia, Italy: Annals by G. Panciroli to 1560, transl. by G. Boschi: 1694: Ital.: Copy. Chronicles: Guido Panciroli, of Reggio; historian: Giovanni Boschi: Annals of Reggio E...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1694
Extent:
1 item

289. Add MS 8540

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PAPERS RELATING TO RIMINI, PARMA, CORREGGIO, MILANO, VALTELLINA, AND CASTRO; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. Included are chronicles and anonymous relazioni. Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/A' (front pastedown). '59' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8539, 8663 and 8670, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 59 (part). Paper; ff. 65, plus two unfoliated blanks after f. 65. Composite volume. Art. 1: number...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/A): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Italy General: Anonymous relazioni and other papers rel. to the Minor States of: 17th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 1-24v Rimini, Italy: Anonymous chronicle (136...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

290. Add MS 8541

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PAPERS RELATING TO THE DISPUTE BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF LUCCA AND THE PAPACY; 1640. Italian. Copies. The texts relate to a dispute that arose in 1638 between the Republic of Lucca and its bishop Cardinal Marcantonio Franciotti. The dispute caused the excommunication of the magistrates of the Republic by the Apostolic Commissary Cesare Raccagni and the Interdict launched against the people of Lucca by Pope Urban VIII on March 1640. The relazione (art. 1, ff. 1-76v) of the events and the Tract ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Marco Antonio Franciotti, Bishop of Lucca; Cardinal 1633: Cesare Raccagni, Bishop of Castello: Papers rel. to the dispute with Lucca: 1640: Ital: Copies. Lucca, Italy: Papers rel. to the dispute with Card. Franciotti and Urban VI...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 item

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