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2. Add MS 4434
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- Add MS 4434
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- Scope & Content:
- ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. 327). (1) An account by Dr. Thomas Stack of a tract entitled 'Johannis Matthaei Barthii ... de Culice Dissertatio'; 1737. ff. 1-2b. (2) Accounts by Mark Catesby, F.R.S., of René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur's 'Memoires pour servir à l'histoire des Insectes'...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
- Date Range:
- 1736-1738
- Extent:
- 1 item
3. Add MS 8305
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- Add MS 8305
- Title:
- MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies. Including (art. 7, ff. 75-85) an anonymous commentary on the first book of the Historiae by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LI' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '495.' in ink in ...
- Scope & Content:
- Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political and historical tracts: circa 1563-1621: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-5 Switzerland: Relazione of: circa 1562-1564: Ital: Copy. ff. 6-10 Pius V; Pope: Discourse rel. to papal authority: circa 1569: Ital: Copy. ff. 11-2...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1562-1621
- Extent:
- 1 item
4. Add MS 8574
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- Add MS 8574
- Title:
- LORENZO DE' MONACIS: Chronicle of Venice from its origins to 1354; late 16th cent. Latin. The chronicle was compiled between 1420 and 1428 (see ff. 1, 157) by Lorenzo de' Monacis (ca. 1351-1428), chancellor of Crete from 1388 (see M. Poppi, 'Ricerche sulla vita e cultura del notaio e cronista veneziano Lorenzo de' Monacis, cancelliere cretese (ca. 1351-1428)', in Studi Veneziani, ix (1967), pp. 153-186). The chronicle, remained unfinished due to the death of the author, is divided into sixte...
- Scope & Content:
- Island of Crete: Chronicle of Venice to 1354, partly rel. to Crete, by L. de' Monacis: late 16th cent.: Lat: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Brown morocco with gilt-tooled spine and decorated paper endleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/16/C): bef. 1828. Venice: Chr...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- Late 16th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
5. Add MS 8583
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- Add MS 8583
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- Andrea de Gatari: Compendium of the chronicle of the city of Padua and the house of Carrara, incorporating extracts from the chronicle of Daniele Chinazzo, 1311-1407; after circa 1520. Italian. The compendium is based on Andrea de Gatari's chronicle of Padua and the house of Carrara. This chronicle was begun by Andrea's father, Galeazzo, whose work covered the years 1318-1389. It was continued to 1407, though otherwise little altered, by Bartolomeo, another son of Galeazzo, and subsequently ...
- Scope & Content:
- Daniele Chinazzo, of Treviso: Extracts from his chronicle of 1337-1381: aft. circa 1520: Ital. Watermarks: Arrows: aft. circa 1520. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/C): early 19th cent. Chronicles: Padua, Italy: Andrea de' Gatari, chronicler: Galeazzo de' Gatari, chronic...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- after 1520
- Extent:
- 1 item
6. Add MS 8598
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- Add MS 8598
- Title:
- Andrea de' Gatari: Chronicle of Padua and the house of Carrara from 1318 to 1425; 1560. Italian. The chronicle was begun by Andrea's father, Galeazzo, who covered the years 1318-1389. It was continued to 1407 by another son of Galeazzo, Bartolomeo, and finally concluded with the death of Marsilio da Carrara in 1425 and embellished by Andrea de' Gatari, who completed his text in 1454. The present MS. begins with the original text by Galeazzo (ff. 1-293), followed by the repetition of his last...
- Scope & Content:
- Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/D): bef. 1828. Heraldry: Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Chronicle of Padua with coloured decoration and arms: 1560: Ital. Manuscripts, Dated: Chronicles: Padua, Italy: Andrea de' Gatari, chronicler: Galeazzo de' Gatari, chronicle...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 1560
- Extent:
- 1 item
7. Add MS 8599
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- Add MS 8599
- Title:
- Chronicles of Padua; 15th-17th cent. Italian. Described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, xi (1906), pt. i, no. lvii, pp. 184-186. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark L/19/D (f. i). Purchased, together with Add. 8583, 8598, 8600 and 8601, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 321 (part). Paper; ff. I+88. Composite volume. Original order partly indicated by old foliation at centre of lower edge of ff. 2...
- Scope & Content:
- Bindings ITALIAN: Original gilt-tooled leather covers pasted onto the British Library pastedowns: 2nd quarter 16th cent. Chronicles: Padua, Italy: Miscellaneous chronicles of Padua: 15th-17th cent.: Ital. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/D): early 19th cent. includes: f...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 15th century-17th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
8. Add MS 8600
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- Add MS 8600
- Title:
- Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini: Chronicle of Padua from 1492 to 1520; circa 1520. Apparently autograph. Italian. Imperfect. The chronicle concerns the war between Padua and Venice, 1492-1520, and was written by Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini circa 1520. The present MS. contains the last part of the chronicle, starting with events datable to around 15 July 1516, inc. (f. 1) 'I solda di Francesco', and breaks off around 26 May 1520, expl. (f. 217v) 'de chontrastare chon ques...'. Probably the ...
- Scope & Content:
- Chronicles: Padua, Italy: Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini, chronicler: Chronicle of Padua 1492-1520, by Giovanni Francesco Buzzacarini: circa 1520: Ital: Autogr. Imperf.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- c 1520
- Extent:
- 1 item
9. Add MS 21176
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- Add MS 21176
- Title:
- "LE Cante in Lengua Pavana de Belluora dei Bragagnitti da Villa Tora, da cantare à le Tose della bona uuoggia amorosa co in Dreana certi Sonaggitti à Calde de certi so Paruni." Paper; XVIIIth cent. With the book-plate and signature of Sylvester [Douglas], Lord Glenbervie. Octavo.
- Scope & Content:
- Padua, Italy: Poems in the dialect of, by Belluora dei Bragagnitti: 18th cent. Belluora dei Bragagnitti: Songs: 18th cent.: Paduan dialect.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English and Italian
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Extent:
- 1 item
10. Add MS 21414
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- Add MS 21414
- Title:
- ORIGINAL commission of Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice, to Giovanni Mauro, appointing him Capitano of Padua; with the laws and statutes to be observed by him. Lat. and Ital.; circa 1530. Imperfect at the end. Vellum; having portrait of Mauro in a miniature at the beginning, and an illuminated border containing miniatures and the arms of Mauro at f. 3. Quarto.
- Scope & Content:
- Venice; Ducali: Commissions by Andrea Gritti: A.D. 1523, 1525, 1526, 1530. Padua, Italy: Appointment of G. Mauro as capitano: circ. 1530. Giovanni Mauro, Capitano of Padua: Commission to, from the Doge of Venice: circ. 1530.: Lat. and Ital.: Imperf. Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt panel: 1524-1563. A...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English, Italian, and Latin
- Date Range:
- c 1530
- Extent:
- 1 item