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1. Add Ch 75328-75420

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Add Ch 75328-75420
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MISCELLANEOUS CHARTERS from the archives of the Medici family of Florence, in Italy; 1329-1749. The descriptive docquets of the 18th cent. archivist which accompanied the majority of them are now bound separately as Add. MS. 48798, see above. Christie's sale-cat., 26 May 1919, lots 28, 606, 608, 609. For other charters dispersed at this sale and now in the John Rylands Library, Manchester, see R. Fawtier, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, viii, 1924, pp. 282-297. Presented with Add. MSS....
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Medici family; Grand Dukes of Tuscany: Correspondence and papers: 13th-18th centt. Florence, Italy: Medici family papers: 13th-18th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
13th century-18th century
Extent:
93 items

2. Add MS 4432

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 392). (1) 'Dr [William] Croon's account of the weight of a Carp'; 1663. f. 1. (2) 'Remarks on the Journal of [Thomas] Batts and [Robert] Fallam, in their Discovery of the Western Parts of Virginia in 1671', by John Mitchell, M.D., F.R.S.; aft. 1755. The jour...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8280

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, letters, treaties, papal instructions and investitures relating to the Papacy, Venice, Turkey, Siena, Tuscany, the Council of Trent, Aragon, Sardinia and Corsica, Sicily, Genoa, Portugal, France, Poland, Spain; circa 1297-1302, 1518-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes (ff. 335-420) a long excerpt from the diary of Paris de Grassis relating to the papacy of Leo X (February 1518 - July 1521). For a complete MS....
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 3-9v Turkey; General: Political Tracts: Venice: Discourse in favour of Venice rel. to the peace with the Turks: after 1572: Ital: Copy. ff. 10-23v Siena, Italy: Gian Giacomo Medici, Marchese di Marignano; called 'Medeghino':...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 22777

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"LE constitutione ordinatione et directorio del modo di viuere delle Suore del tergo Ordine della penitentia di Sancto Domenico Padre de frati predicatori, che habitano nel Monasterio di Sancta Caterina da Siena vergine del dicto tergo ordine, presso a Sancto Marco in Firenze." At f. 43 is the s...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1509-1515
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 22972

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VOL. IX. Letters of 1770-1779, from Il Bali [Tommaso Giuseppe] Farsetti, Venice, Padua, 9 Jan. 1770-20 Mar. 1779, ff. 3-501 passim. Germanico Tolomei; Siena, 19 Jan.- 27 Dec 1770, ff. 4, 6-9, 29, 30. Gaspero Patriarchi; Padua, 8 Apr. 1770-22 Apr. 1779, ff. 10, 50, 287, 305, 458, 505. Giovangirol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1770-1779
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 25598

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VOL. I. 1. Antonio Magliabechi to Carlo Dati, enclosing the answer to his request; n.d. Lat. Autograph. ff. 2-9. 2. Copies of letters and papers relating to the Magliabechi library in the Academy at Florence; 1783. Ital. f. 10. 3. Biographical notices of A. Magliabechi. Ital. f. 19. 4. Ori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 26073

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Add MS 26073
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COLLECTIONS relating to the fine arts, 1750-1752, by Warley. Fr., Ital. and Lat. Among them are- 1. "Descrittione della Citta di Verona; 22 Dec. 1751," f 14. 2. Catalogues of pictures and sculptures at Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Rome, Parma, and Venice; 15 Nov. 1750-24 May, 1752, ff. 17 b- 76 b. 3. "Abecedario Pittorico," f. 77. 4. Catalogue of the literary and art collections of [Joseph] Smith, British Consul at Venice, f. 81 b. Paper. Octavo.
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Art. Catalogues: Pictures and sculptures at Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Rome, Parma, and Venice: 1750-1752. includes: f. 5 b Numismatics: List of Roman coins: 1751-1752. f. 14 Verona, Italy: Descrittione della città di Verona: 1751. ff. 17 b, 32, 37 b, 70 Florence, Italy: Catalogues of pictures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1750-1752
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 27392 F

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Add MS 27392 F
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F. Florence and environs; Ital. Florence, Italy: Plan of: 18th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 29318

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Add MS 29318
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LISTS of manuscripts and letters, viz.:- 1. "Extraict de l'Inventaire des Joyaux et artres Biens, Meubles de feue Madane la Duchesse de Bourgoingne (Marguerite de Flandres, femme de Philippe le Hardi, morte sur la fin de l'année 1404), envoyez en la chambre des Comptes à Dijon;" 15 Dec. 1412: being a list of manuscripts, chiefly romances and service books, taken from a MS. in the library of Troyes, No. 203, p. 108, ancien fonds Bouhier, Coté A. 53, f. 1. 2. List of the collection of Franc...
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Dijon, France: Inventory of goods of the Duchesse de Bourgogne in the Chamber of Accounts at: 19th cent.: Fr. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy: 1412.: Copy. includes: f. 1 Troyes, France: Extract from MS. 203 in the Library: 19th cent.: Fr. f. 1 Romances: List of ro...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item