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201. Add MS 8309

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni of Rome, the German Empire, Peru, France, Spain and Naples; circa 1568-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature in black ink 'Tomo 131' in upper left corner of ff. 2, 152, 158. Old signatures 'Tom. LVI' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '500.' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 500 (vol. 56 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederi...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-106v Urban VIII; Pope: Ferdinand III; Emperor of Germany: Relazione of the Duke of Crumau's visit to Urban VIII: [1638]: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-106v Johann Anthon I von Eggenberg, Prince; Duke of Crumau; Imperial Ambassador to Urban VII...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1568-1644
Extent:
1 item

202. Add MS 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

203. Add MS 8311

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, Poland, France, the German Empire, and Spain; circa 1568-1675. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LVIII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '502' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 502 (vol. 58 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '103' in ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-18v Pietro Mocenigo, Venetian Ambassador at Rome 1672: Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, Cardinal 1664; Cardinal Nephew of Clement X: Notes to Pietro Mocenigo rel. to Card. Paluzzi: circa 1674-1675: Ital: Copy. ff. 19-64 Pol...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1568-1675
Extent:
1 item

204. Add MS 8312

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to North Africa, France, Scotland, Mirandola, and Rome; circa 1568-1602. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '499' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 499 (vol. 55 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-52 Barbary: Relazione of Barbary: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copy. ff. 53-84 Charles de Gontaut, Duc de Biron: Charles de Valois, Comte d'Auvergne; Duc d'Angoulême; son of Charles IX of France: Tracts rel. to his imprisonment: circa 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1568-1602
Extent:
1 item

205. Add MS 8313

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Father Nicolò Ridolfi, the burial place of St. Peter and the League against the Turks signed in 1571 by Venice, Spain, and the Holy See, during the papacy of Pius V; circa 1570-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LX' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '504' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 504 (vol. 60 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's c...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-72v Father Niccolò Ridolfi, General of the Dominicans: Papers rel. to the ecclesiastical court case against: [1643]: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 73-102 Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Michele Lonigo, Deputy Prefect o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1570-1644
Extent:
1 item

206. Add MS 8314

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COLLECTION of papers and tracts mostly relating to the Leagues between Venice, Spain, and the Holy See against the Turks and to the battle of Lepanto in 1571, during the papacy of Pius V; 1529, 1538, 1570-1572. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes the relazione (art. 11, ff. 180v-223) by the Venetian Ambassador Michele Suriani, here dated 1570. The MS. is entitled (f. 2) 'Discorsi'. With pen decorations (ff. 1, 14, 17v); table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old s...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Turkey; General: Philip II of Spain: Pius V; Pope: Venice: Paul III; Pope: Miscellaneous papers, letters and tracts rel. to the League against the Turks: 1529-1572: Ital., Lat., Span: Copies. includes: ff. 180v-223 Philip II of Spain: Pius V; Pope: Ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

207. Add MS 8315

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of instructions and relazioni to and from papal nuncios and other representatives of the Holy See relating to France, the peace congress of Cologne, England, Urbino, Senigallia, Tuscany, and the Valtelline during the papacy of Urban VIII; circa 1623-1641. Italian and Latin. Copies. In particular the papal instructions at arts. 7-13, 15-18, 20 (ff. 150-187v, 192-212, 219-222) relate to the devolution of the Duchy of Urbino to the Papacy after the death of the last Duk...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Instructions to and relazioni from papal representatives: 1623-1641: Ital: Copy. includes: ff. 2-56 Louis XIII of France: Giovanni Francesco Guidi del Bagno, Papal nuncio; Archbishop of Patras 1621: Papal instructions to Giovann...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1623-1641
Extent:
1 item

208. Add MS 8316

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portugal and the election of King John IV. The MS. also includes (art. 6, ff. 105-121v) an anonymous relazione of the devastation of Rome by the Gauls under their leader Brennus in 390 B.C. Pen-decorated frontispieces (ff. 79, 148, 182), and family tre...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-23v Political Tracts: Genoa; Doges of: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ambassadorial precedence for the Genoese ambassadors: 1st half 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 45-63v City of Ferrara: Political Tracts: Venice: Tracts rel. to territ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1640-1643
Extent:
1 item

209. Add MS 8317

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Urbino, France, England and Spain; circa 1615-1633. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 5, ff. 122-130) a political tract in favour of the marriage between Charles Prince of Wales, son of King James I of England, and the Infanta Maria Anna, daughter of King Philip III of Spain. The negotiations for the marriage started in 1615, but ended in 1624 after the visit to Madrid of Prince Charles an...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 37-66 Gregory XV; Pope: Federico Ubaldo della Rovere; Duke of Urbino: Relazione of Urbino: circa 1621-1623: Ital: Copy. ff. 67-90 Charles I de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui; French Ambassador at Rome: Political discourse rel. to his neg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1615-1633
Extent:
1 item

210. Add MS 8318

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Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, political tracts, letters and satirical verses relating to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders; circa 1630-1640. Italian and Spanish. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LXXXIV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '528' in ink in fourth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 528 (vol. 84 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford,...
Scope & Content:
Piedmont: Lombardy, Italy: Papers rel. to war in: 1630, 1635: Ital: Copies. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. War: Miscellany rel. to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders: circa 1630-1640: Ital. and Span: Copies. includes: ff. 42-43 Treaties: Regensburg, Germany: Agreement...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1630-1640
Extent:
1 item

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