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411. Add MS 8680-8681

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Title:
GIROLAMO MARCIANO: Description of Otranto and its environs; 1656
Scope & Content:
Italian. Copy, partly dated 1754. A detailed historical, ethnographical and geographical account of the town of Otranto and its surrounds in the Apulia region (Italy). The work is based on De situ Iapygiae and Callipolis descriptio, two pamphlets written by the famous humanist doctor and man of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1656-1754
Extent:
2 items

412. Add MS 8682

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CHRONICLE OF SPAIN; circa 1741. Italian. Copy, imperfect. An abridged history of Spain from antiquity to 1741 (f. 65v). Inc. (f. 1) 'Capo I / Di qualche antica Monarchia, e particolarmente dell'Imperio de Romani, del suo smembramento e quali nuovi stati sian si quindi formati / Egli è agevole a concepire, che le Monarchie', expl. (f. 70) 'la Francia, che ha forze sufficienti per farle gran male'. With marginal notabilia throughout. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/20/B): bef. 1828. Spain, General: Chronicles: Chronicle of Spain to 1741: circa 1741: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1741
Extent:
1 item

413. Add MS 8686

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RELAZIONI TO THE VENETIAN SENATE; 16th cent. Italian. Copies. Three relazioni to the Venetian Senate from Vincenzo Querini, Venetian Oratore or Extraordinary Ambassador to Philip of Burgundy, Andrea Querini, possibly one of the Stimadori or appraisers of the Venetian Arsenal, and Nicolò Soranzo, Provveditore generale d'armata or commissioner of the fleet. Table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased fr...
Scope & Content:
Venice: Relazioni to the Venetian Senate: 16th cent.: Ital: Copy. includes: ff. 1-32v Portugal General: Spain, General: Venice: Vincenzo Querini, Venetian Ambassador: Philip, Archduke of Austria; son of Maximilian I: Relazione of Spain and Portugal by Vincenzo Querini: [1506]: Ital: Copy. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

414. Add MS 8687

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RELAZIONE OF SPAIN; Ragionamento fatto da Filippo II a Filippo III; La monarchia di Spagna crescente e calante; late 16th-mid 17th cent. Italian. Copies. A collection of texts relating to the reign of Philip II of Spain (1556-1598). Table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '254' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8685, 8689, 8691, 8700, 8703, 8705, and 8708, from R...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Spain, General: Venice: Relazione and two Tracts rel. to Spain: late 16th-mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-23 Philip II of Spain: Venice: Relazione of Spain: late 16th cent.: Ital: Copy. ff. 24-65 Philip II of Spain: Philip III of Spa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

415. Add MS 8688

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FILADELFO MUGNOS: Collection of fair copies of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers relating to successive Dukes of Vietri in the service of Philip II, III, and IV in Italy, 1555-1622; mid 17th cent. Spanish and Italian. Autograph. The MS. was compiled during the reign of Philip IV, 1621-1665 according to royal certification (f. 44). The MS. is described in Gayangos I, pp. 846-8. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in pencil ...
Scope & Content:
Philip II of Spain: Philip IV of Spain: Philip III of Spain: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Filadelfo Mugnos, writer on Italian nobility and heraldry: Dukes of Vietri: Collection of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers rel. to successive Dukes of Vietri in the servi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

416. Add MS 8689

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PIETRO DE NORES: Account of the Carafa War, Book i; after 1644. Italian. Copy. The detailed account of the so-called Carafa war between Pope Paul IV Carafa and Spain (1555-1557) and its consequences is a work by Pietro De Nores, son of Giason, the exiled Cypriot philosopher and literary critic (on the latter see DBI 38 (1990), pp. 768-773). Pietro began to write the account in Rome during the first years of the papacy of Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605), but completed it only between 16...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: aft. 1644. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Philip II of Spain: Henry II of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Cosimo I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Paul IV; Pope: Pietro De Nores, historian: Account of the Carafa War, Book I by Pietro ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1644
Extent:
1 item

417. Add MS 8690

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INQUISITORIAL PROCEEDINGS AGAINST FRAY BARTOLOMÉ CARRANZA DE MIRANDA DE ARGA, ARCHBISHOP OF TOLEDO; 1567-1576. Spanish and Latin. Partly autograph. Notarial records relating to the transfer of the trial of Carranza to Rome in 1567 and its proceedings (1567-76). Carranza was accused of Lutheran heresy in 1558 and imprisoned in the Castle of Sant'Angelo, Valladolid, in 1559 by the Spanish Inquisition on the basis of ambiguous passages in his Commentaries on the Christian Cathechism (Antwerp, 1...
Scope & Content:
Philip II of Spain: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Inquisition: Fray Bartolomé Carranza de Miranda de Arga, Archbishop of Toledo: Notarial records rel. to the trial of B. Carranza in Rome: 1567-1576: Span. and Lat. includes: ff. 1-2 Bindings SPANISH: Original full calf-leather...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1567-1576
Extent:
1 item

418. Add MS 8693-8698

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Title:
SACCHETTI CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS: Vols. I-VI; 1623-1626. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies, partly in cipher. Registers of secret dispatches, letters and correspondence of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, Bishop of Gravina, with miscellaneous correspondence and papers relating to the nunziatura to Spain. Sacchetti was papal nuncio to Spain between 27 Jan. 1624-30 May 1626. The six-volume registers were copied in the Papal Curia upon his return to Rome on 10 Aug. 1626 (see 8695, f. 1): vols. i...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Correspondence with Card. Sacchetti: 1624-1626: Ital: Copies. Giulio Sacchetti, Bishop of Gravina; Cardinal 1626: Correspondence and papers rel. to Spain by Giulio Sacchetti: 1623-1626: Ital., Span. and Lat: Copies. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1623-1626
Extent:
6 items

419. Add MS 8699

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RELAZIONI OF SPAIN AND PORTUGAL; circa 1624-1672. Italian, partly in Latin. Copies. A collection of papers concerning the relations of the Papal Curia with Spain and Portugal before and after the election in 1640 of John Duke of Braganza as King John IV of Portugal. The collection has probably been put together by a scribe in the Papal Curia. Arts. 3-5 concern the refusal of Pope Urban VIII to grant a public audience to Dom Miguel de Portugal, Bishop of Lamego, Portuguese Ambassador to Rome ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th-early 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-50 Urban VIII; Pope: Philip IV of Spain: Relazione of Rome and Pope Urban VIII's illness to Philip: 1637: Ital: Copy. ff. 51-107 Urban VIII; Pope: Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Giovanni Battista Pallotta, Bishop of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1624-1672
Extent:
1 item

420. Add MS 8700

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IPPOLITO CAMILLO GUIDI: Relazione of Spain and of the Count-Duke of Olivares; circa 1643. Italian. Copy. A relazione of Spain in the 1620s focused on the life and role played in Spanish politics by Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares, prime minister and favourite of King Philip IV. The anonymous text has been recognised by A. Morel-Fatio as a relazione presented to Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, by the Dominican Father Ippolito Camillo Guidi, the Modenese envoy to Spain from 1639 t...
Scope & Content:
Philip IV of Spain: Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares: Relazione of Spain by I. C. Guidi rel. to: circa 1643: Ital: Copy. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. Francesco I d'Este; Duke of Modena: Ippolito Camillo Guidi, Dominican; Modenese envoy to Spain: Relazione of Spain...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1643
Extent:
1 item

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