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2731. Add MS 39672-39673

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Add MS 39672-39673
Title:
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS from the Alfred Morrison collection
Scope & Content:
Described at length, with many extracts and facsimiles, in the privately printed folio catalogue of that collection (6 vols., 1883- 1892). See also Sotheby's sale-cat., 10-14 Dec. 1917. Further volumes from the collection are below, Add. 39757, 39779-39793, 39839-39842.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
[1446-1864]
Extent:
2 items

2732. Add MS 39757

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Add MS 39757
Title:
AUTOGRAPH LETTERS from the Alfred Morrison collection. Vol. III. (From the second portion, sold at Sotheby's, 15-19 Apr. 1918.) As in the case of the preceding volumes, Add. MSS. 39672, 39673, most of the letters are fully described in the folio catalogue of the collection, 1883-1892, or in the octavo supplement (A-D) 1893-1896. See also below, 39779-39793, 39839-39842. The contents are :- 1. Letters of Count Camillo Benso di Cavour, the Italian statesman:- -(a) To Mélanie Waldor, French...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 3 Mélanie Waldor, French woman of letters: Letter to, from Count Cavour: 1849.: Fr.f. 3 Conte Camillo Benso di Cavour, Sardinian statesman: Letter to Mme. Al. Waldor: 1849.: Fr.ff. 3-7 Alfred Bovet: Autographs from his collection: bef. 1887.f. 6 Conte Camillo Benso di Cavou...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, and Italian
Date Range:
1656-1861
Extent:
1 item

2733. Add MS 39778

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Add MS 39778
Title:
MAGICAL work, in Italian and Latin, written on blackened paper in white and red ink, with a title-page (f. 3) in Italian, " Prezzioso esperimento arcano di Pietro d'Abbano 1470," and one (f. 7) in Latin, " Arcanum experimentum pretiosum ex autore Petrus (sic) de Abbano Philosophi (sic) 1470." It is not the Heptameron or the Geomantia attributed (but the former probably incorrectly; see A. E. Waite, The Book of Black Magic, p. 67, Mazzuchelli, Scrittori d'Italia, i, p. 10) to Petrus de Abano,...
Scope & Content:
Magic: "Prezzioso esperimento arcano," attrib. to Petrus de Abano: early 19th cent.: Ital. and Lat. Petrus de Ahano, d 1316: "Prezzioso esperimento arealio " attrib. to: early 19th cent.: Ital. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 19th century
Extent:
1 item

2734. Add MS 39779-39793

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 39779-39793
Title:
Third portion of the Alfred Morrison Collection sold at Sotheby's, 9-13 Dec. 1918.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1598-1866]
Extent:
52 items

2735. Add MS 39780

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Add MS 39780
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Scope & Content:
FLAXMAN PAPERS. Vol. I (ff. 462). Letters from (a) John Flaxman, R.A., 1780-1825. f. 1 ;-(b) his wife, 1780-1819 and (f. 376) n.d. and drafts. f. 123. Ann Flaxman, née Denman; wife (1782) of John Flaxman, RA: Correspondence with her husband and others: 1780-1820, n.d. includes: ff. 1 -420 pas...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1780-1825
Extent:
1 item

2736. Add MS 39780-39792

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Add MS 39780-39792
Title:
CORRESPONDENCE and other papers of John Flaxman, R.A., sculptor (d. 1826), and of his household, which was composed of Ann (née Denman), his wife (d. 1820), Mary Ann Flaxman, his sister (d. 1833), and Maria Denman, his wife's sister (sale of her effects, Apr. 1862). From Sept. 1787 to 1794 Flaxman and his wife were absent from England and had their headquarters at Rome. Mary Ann Flaxman accompanied the Hare Naylor family abroad (1804- 1806), chiefly at Weimar and in Switzerland. The undated ...
Scope & Content:
John Flaxman, RA: Correspondence and papers, etc.: 18th-19th centt.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1780-1866]
Extent:
50 items

2737. Add MS 39791

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Add MS 39791
Title:
Scope & Content:
FLAXMAN PAPERS. Vol. XII (ff. 329). Miscellaneous volume, including :- 1. Contracts and other papers relative to public commissions of Flaxman, 1794-1828. f. 1. 2. Catalogue of the Flaxman sale, 1 July 1828. Printed. With MS. inventories, n.d. f. 28. 3. List of subscribers to the " Acts of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1784-1845
Extent:
1 item

2738. Add MS 39793

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Add MS 39793
Title:
Scope & Content:
LETTERS to Sir William Hamilton, K.B., Envoy at Naples, from British diplomatists serving in Italy, with occasional holograph drafts of his replies (ff. 106, 120, 143, 147, 217, 231, 255, 275) ; 11 Sept. 1778-27 Feb. 1800. The writers are :- (a) John Udny, Consul at Leghorn, relating chiefly t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
11 Sep 1778-27 Feb 1800
Extent:
1 item

2739. Add MS 39844

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 39844
Title:
PSEUDO-ARISTOTLE, Secretum Secretorum, and Le Livre du Trésor of Brunetto Latini, in Italian translations. For previous descriptions see Twenty MSS., Collection of H. Y. Thompson, Third Series, 1907, pp. 119-126 (plates in Illustrations, ii, 1908, pl. xxxiv-xxxvii), and New Palaeographical Soc., ii, pl. 110-111. 1. " Questo e lo libro d'Aristotile . lo quale e detto Sagreto Sacretorum del reggimento de principi et de re o de signori . lo quale mando al grande re Alexandro " : the pseudo-Ari...
Scope & Content:
? Léon Gruel: Binding by: 19th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Translation of Brunetto Latini's Trésor, etc. : miniatures and decorative initials: 1425. Bookplates: Thompson (Henry Yates), d. 1928. Bindings FRENCH: Dark red morocco, blind-tooled, by Gruel: 19th cent. Manuscrip...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
[1425]
Extent:
1 item

2740. Add MS 39907

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 39907
Title:
ITALIAN CANTATAS, etc., in score by Giovanni Bonaventura Viviani, [Carlo] Flavio Lanciani, Abb[at]e Filippo Colonnese, Giuseppe Pacieri, Bernardo Pasquini, Alessandro Scarlatti, and Alessandro Stradella, in score. Paper; ff. i + 178. XVII-XVIII cent. Small oblong folio. The old cover was of green leather, tooled. Gilt and gauffred edges.
Scope & Content:
includes: ff. 1, 163 b Bernardo Pasquini, composer: Songs and trio: 17th-18th cent.f. 18 Giovanni Bonaventura Viviani: Song: 17th-18th cent.: Ital.ff. 54, 155 b Carlo Flavio Lanciani: Songs: 17th-18th cent.ff. 84-119, 124 Filippo Colonnese, Abbate; composer: Songs: 17th-18th cent.f.120 ...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

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