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441. Add MS 8732

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DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND MEMORIALS RELATING TO COLOGNE AND FRANCE, together with a tract on ambassadorial precedence at the papal court; 1478-1638. Italian, and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Compilation relating to diplomatic missions of papal nuncios at Cologne and French ambassadors in Rome. Table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand, possibly the same hand as the old foliation. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '392' in pencil in top left cor...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-194 Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Instructions to Card. M. Ginetti: [1636]: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-194 Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Instructions from Card. F. Barberini: [1636]: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-194 Urban VIII; Pope: Pietro Ben...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

442. Add MS 8733

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PORT OF MARDICK: two tracts on the handover of the port by the French government to the English in Oct. 1657; circa 1658. Italian translation. Copies. The first tract (art. 1, ff. 2-41) is the Italian translation of a French pamphlet published anonymously in Paris in 1657 and again in 1658 by Jean François Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, with the title Très-humble et très-importante remontrance au Roi sur la remise des places maritimes de Flandres entre les mains des Anglais. In his pamphlet Gondi ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 2nd half 17th cent. Louis XIV of France: Political Tracts: Mardick, Flanders: Oliver Cromwell of England: Tracts on the handover of Mardick to the English: circa 1658: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-41 Louis XIV of France: Remontrance au Roi by J. F. P. Gondi: 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1658
Extent:
1 item

443. Add MS 8734-8735

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GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches and letters to Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France (25 June 1643 - Dec. 1656); 1644-1656
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Italian. Copies. Imperfect. The dispatches were sent from the Secretaries of State Giovanni Giacomo Panciroli (d. 1 Sept. 1651), Fabio Chigi (elected Pope Alexander VII in 1655), and Giulio Rospigliosi, and from cardinal-nepote Camillo Astalli, known as Cardinal Pamphili (dismissed from office o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1644-1656
Extent:
2 items

444. Add MS 8736-8744

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NANI LETTER-BOOKS: Dispatches from and to Giovanni Battista Nani, Venetian Ambassador to France April 1644 - June 1648; 1644-1648. Italian and French. Add. 8739 partly autograph. The contents of the letter-books are as follows: (a) Add. 8736 and 8738 (ff. 1-400): Nani's dispatches to Doge Francesco Erizzo (d. 2 Jan. 1646), April 1644 - Jan. 1646; - (b) Add. 8737 and 8741: Nani's dispatches to Alvise Contarini, Venetian Extraordinary Ambassador at the Congress of Münster, June 1644 - June 164...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/A): bef. 1828. Louis XIV of France: Letter-Books of G. B. Nani rel. to: 1644-1648: Ital., partly Fr: Copies. Giovanni Battista Nani, Venetian Ambassador; Procuratore di S Marco 1662: Letter-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1644-1648
Extent:
9 items

445. Add MS 8745

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RELATION OF FRANCE DURING THE MINORITY OF LOUIS XIV; 1647. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the court of France during the regency of the Queen Mother Anna of Austria. The anonymous author describes the state and court offices and provides names and a brief family history of present officers and their immediate predecessors. Inc. (f. 2) 'La Prima persona di questo Stato è il Re Luigi XIVo Re di Francia e di Navarra Prencipe d'età di nove anni', expl. (f. 168v) 'Limoge, Bourges, Dijon, Cialon, e R...
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Bindings: Quarter blue leather with decorated paper covers: early 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (L/20/E): bef. 1817. Louis XIV of France: Relazione of the Court of France during his minority: 1647: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1647
Extent:
1 item

446. Add MS 8746-8750

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MAZARIN LETTER-BOOKS: Letters of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin and his secretary Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei; 1647-1651. Italian, Spanish, Latin and French. Copies, partly 18th cent. The letters are mainly addressed to Italian cardinals, princes and captains. Recipients include Cardinals Girolamo Grimaldi, Antonio Barberini, Rinaldo d'Este, Virginio Orsini, Giulio Sacchetti, Alderano Cibo, Ascanio Filomarino, Archbishop of Naples, and Mazarin's own brother Michele Mazzarino, Archbishop of Aix and Cardi...
Scope & Content:
Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei, Secretary to Card. Mazarin: Letters: 1647-1651: Ital: Copies. Giulio Mazarin, Cardinal 1641: Letter-Books of: 1647-1651: Ital., Span., Lat., and Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1647-1651
Extent:
5 items

447. Add MS 8751

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Title:
LIFE, WILL AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO CARDINAL GIULIO MAZARIN; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copies, 18th cent. The anonymous life of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin (1602-1661) is a version of the so-called 'Anonymous of Turin'. However it lacks the preface and differs in other details from the life published from a MS. in the University Library of Turin by L. Chiala, 'Il Cardinale di Mazarino', in Rivista Contemporanea, iv (1855), pp. 539-584. Other variants of the same life in Add. 8379 (ff. ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Giulio Mazarin, Cardinal 1641: Life and other papers rel. to: late 17th cent.: Ital: Copies, 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-47 Biography: Life of Card. Mazarin: late 17th cent.: Ital: Copy, 18th cent. ff. 60v-84 Wills: Summary of Card. Mazarin's will: lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

448. Add MS 8752

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[GIOVANNI ?] SAGREDO: Relazione of the Court of France; circa 1656. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Court of France apparently written in 1656, two years after the majority of Louis XIV (see f. 17v). The MS. title (f.1) attributes the relazione to Nicolò Sagredo, 'Relatione della Corte di francia dell'Eccellentissimo Signor Nicolò Sagredo Ambasciatore della Serenissima Republica di Venetia appresso Sua Maesta Christianissima'. In 1656 Nicolò Sagredo had just returned from Rome where he had b...
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Louis XIV of France: Relazione of France, attributed to N. Sagredo: circa 1656: Ital: Copy. Giovanni Sagredo, Venetian diplomat and historian: Relazione of France, possibly by: circa 1656: Ital: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Nicolò Sagredo, Venetian Ambassador; Doge of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1656
Extent:
1 item

449. Add MS 8753

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Title:
GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOK: Dispatches and letters of Niccolò Guidi del Bagno, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to France 25 June 1643 - Dec. 1656; 1655-1657. Italian and Latin. Copies. The dispatches are mainly addressed to the secretary of state Giulio Rospigliosi and date 21 May 1655 - 5 Feb. 1657 (dispatches relating to 1655 on ff. 2-174v, to 1656 on ff. 174v-373, to 1657 on ff. 373-376). Correspondents include: Cardinal Giacomo Corradi, Pope Alexander VII, the Pope's brother Mario Chigi, the P...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Louis XIV of France: Dispatches from N. Guidi del Bagno to G. Rospigliosi rel. to: 1655-1657: Ital: Copies. Giulio Rospigliosi, Cardinal 1657; Pope Clement IX 1667: Dispatches ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1655-1657
Extent:
1 item

450. Add MS 8754

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Title:
LETTERS AND TRACTS ON RELATIONS BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE PAPACY at the time of Popes Alexander VII and Clement X and King Louis XIV; 1655-1672. Italian, Latin, Spanish, and French. Copies. A collection of tracts, papal briefs and letters mostly relating to the dispute between France and the Papacy that arose after the attack on the French Ambassador at Rome, Charles de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui, by the papal Corsican Guards on 20 Aug. 1662. The quarrel almost precipitated France and the Papac...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1817. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/E): bef. 1817. Charles III de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui; French Ambassador at Rome: Letters and tracts rel. to his quarrel with the papal court: 1662-1664: Ital., Lat.,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1655-1672
Extent:
1 item

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