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261. Add MS 8371

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

262. Add MS 8372

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PAPERS relating to the dispute between Urban VIII and Odoardo Farnese; 1641-1645. Italian and Latin. Papers relating to the dispute between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and the Duke Odoardo Farnese (1622-1646) over territories in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. The dispute was the cause of the so-called War of Castro between the Papacy and the League formed by Odoardo Farnese, Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany, Duke Francis I of Modena, and the Republic of Venice. Many of the collected papers rel...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum, gilt-tooled, restored: mid 17th cent. Genoa; Doges of: Papers rel. to the dispute between Urban VIII and the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1643: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Papers rel. to the dispute with the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1645:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1641-1645
Extent:
1 item

263. Add MS 8373

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza during the Papacy of Clement XII, and to the promotion of Vincenzo Bichi to the Cardinalate at the instance of the Portuguese court; 1717-1732. Italian. Partly printed. The MS. includes a miscellaneous collection of papers relating to Vincenzo Bichi and the controversy between the Holy See and state powers on the right of selecting nuncios representing the Holy See in foreign states. Vincenzo Bichi was nuncio in Portugal and ...
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 64-83 Piacenza, Italy: Parma, Italy: Papers rel. to: 1731-1732: Ital. and Lat. ff. 66-67 Clement XII; Pope: Printed Matter: Address of Clement XII on Parma: 1731: Ital: Printed. ff. 69-72 Clement XII; Pope: Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae; printers: Printed Matter: Prot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1717-1732
Extent:
1 item

264. Add MS 8374

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ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT of the uprising of students in the Jesuit college at Rome in 1647 at the time of Innocent X (1644-1655); circa 1647. Italian. Copy. The student revolt was prompted by the introduction of stricter rules of discipline by Francesco Palazzi, the new dean of the seminary, and encouraged by an heretical student. This student may have been Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695), later renowned as an heretical doctor and alchemist. Borri was in fact expelled from the college in 1647 ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Full vellum: early 19th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Rome; Jesuit College: Account of the uprising of students in the Jesuit College at Rome: 1647: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1647
Extent:
1 item

265. Add MS 8375

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS of Innocent X; 1650. Italian. The work comprises short lifes of the seventy-three cardinals of the Sacred College in 1650, the year of the Jubilee, beginning (ff. 13-16v) with Camillo Pamphili, Cardinal-Nepote of Innocent X and later Prince, and ending (ff. 481v-483v) with Marcello Lanti. The text is a revised and enlarged version of another MS. work entitled La Stadiera de Prencipi Porporati. The work is dedicated (ff. 6-7) to an Italian prince, who had commissioned t...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and flyleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/D): bef. 1828. Biography: Innocent X; Pope: Lives of cardinals in the Jubilee year: 1650: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1650
Extent:
1 item

266. Add MS 8376

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INSTRUZIONI DIVERSE: Instructions to Papal nuncios, cardinals and governors on how to govern and conduct themselves; circa 1582-1591. Italian. Copy. The present MS. is listed in P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68a. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '392' in pencil in upper left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8340, 8356, 8406, 8475, 8481, 8535, 8675, 8702, 8732, 8763 and 8777, from R. H. Evans, 10 Dec. 1830, lot 3...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef.1828. includes: ff. 1-34 Netherlands, General: Instructions conc. Pietro Caetano's appointment as Papal Nuncio to Flanders, to P. Caetano fron E. Caetano: 1590: Ital: Copy. ff. 1-34 Enrico Caetano, Cardinal: Pietro Caetano, Papal Nuncio to Flanders: Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1582-1591
Extent:
1 item

267. Add MS 8377

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GIOVANNI ANTONIO THOMASI: Discorso sopra la vita del Cardinale Di Luca; circa 1683-1689. Italian and Latin. Copy. Life of Cardinal Giovanni Battista De Luca (1614-1683). Title (f. 1) 'Discorso sopra la vita Dell' Eminentissimo Signore Cardinal De Luca con alcune riflessioni non inutili al Curiale.' Inc. (f. 3) 'È comune parere de Naturali, che la qualità dell'Aria, la temperie del clima, e la nobilità del sito dove nasce', expl. (f. 89v) 'Alle cui glorie per tanto siricercavano più torto i p...
Scope & Content:
Giovanni Antonio Tomasi, Italian historian: Giovanni Battista De Luca, Cardinal; Italian canonist: Life of Card. G.B. De Luca,: circa 1683-1689: Ital: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna library: late 18th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1683-1689
Extent:
1 item

268. Add MS 8378

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COLLECTION relating to the Dispute between Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri and the ambassadors of France, Spain, Venice, and the Empire; 1674-1675. Italian. Copies. The collection contains various papers relating the dispute between Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Alberoni, nephew and prime minister of Pope Clement X (1670-1676), and the French ambassador Duc François Annibal II d'Estrées. Altieri was unpopular and had often been accused of concentrating power in his hands in order to increa...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Pietro Mocenigo, Venetian Ambassador at Rome 1672: François Annibal II d' Estrées, Duc; Maréchal; Ambassador at Rome: Johann Eberhard von Neidhart, Jesuit; General of the Spanish Inquisition; Cardinal 1672: Hessen-Darmstadt, Landgraves of. Friedric...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1674-1675
Extent:
1 item

269. Add MS 8379

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COLLECTION of pasquinades and satires current at the elections of the Popes, together with two Lives of Cardinals Mazzarino and Alberoni; 1653-1721. Italian. Copy. Included in the MS. are: poems relating to the death of Clement XI and the following Conclave, 1721 (ff. 1-39); poems relating to the death of Innocent XI and the election of Alexander VIII, 1689 (ff. 39v-45v, 52v-55); poems relating to the Conclave following the death of Alexander VIII, 1691 (ff. 46-52, 55-73v); poems relating to...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and contiguous flyleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: 1817-1827. Poetry ITALIAN: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Satires ITALIAN: Collection of pasquinades and satires current at the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1653-1721
Extent:
1 item

270. Add MS 8380

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Title:
LIVES OF POPE INNOCENT XII AND CARDINALS DURING HIS PONTIFICATE; an account written by Count Orazio D'Elci; 1699-1701. Italian. Copy, engraved portrait (f. 1v). Main title of MS. (f. 2) 'Vita di Papa Innocenzo XII e de' signori cardinali viventi in quel ponteficato presentat'all'ill.mo et ecc.mo s.gre marchese Clemente Vitelli ambasciatore straordinario appresso detto Pontefice per Sua Altezza Reale il serenissimo Cosimo 3o Gran Duca di Toscana dal conte Orazio Delci nobile senese l'anno 169...
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Bindings: Full vellum: 18th cent. Innocent XII; Pope: Biography: Conte Orazio d' Elci, of Siena, Papal official: Church of Rome: Lives of Innocent XII and his cardinals by Orazio d'Elci: 1699: Ital: Copy. includes: f. 1v Innocent XII; Pope: Art. Portraits: Art. Engravings, etc: Lodovico David...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1699-1701
Extent:
1 item

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