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Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8724
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Scope & Content:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. IV. 1612, 1614. Title by a later hand (f. 1) 'Lettere della Segreteria di Stato sotto Paolo V a Monsignor Ubaldini nunzio in Francia dall'anno 1613 a tutto 1614'. Contents as follows:— 1. ff. 2-175. 'Registro / Di lettere della Segreteria di Stato della sa:me di P...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1612-1614
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8725
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Scope & Content:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. V. Dispatches of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others; 5 Jan. - 23 Dec. 1610. Title (f. 1) 'Lettere del Signor Cardinale Ubaldini Nella sua Nunziatura di Francia dell'anno 1610'. Inc. (f. 3) 'Al Signor Cardinale Borghese / Di Parigi 5 Gennaro 1610 / Partì il Prenc...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 5 Jan 1610-23 Dec 1610
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8725-8726
Title:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOLS V, VI. Dispatches of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others; 1610-1612. Italian. Copies. Add. 8725 contains the dispatches relating to the year 1610, Add. 8726 the dispatches relating to the years 1611 and 1612. Both MSS. stamped (f. 1) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770'. Identifiable with Falconieri MSS. 44 and 45 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 21v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '396' in pencil in top left corn...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1610-1612
Extent:: 2 items

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8726
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Scope & Content:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. VI. Dispatches of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others; 1611 - 1612. Contents as follows: 1. ff. 1-150. 'Lettere del Signor Cardinale Ubaldini nella sua Nunziatura di Francia al Signor Cardinale Borghese nell'anno 1611'; 4 Jan. - 21 Dec. 1611. Inc. (f. 2) 'Al S...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1611-1612
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8727
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Scope & Content:: UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. VII. Dispatches and letters of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others; 1615-1616. Italian and Latin. Copies, after 1621. Imperfect. The MS. was probably copied after 1621, as the headings to the letters addressed to Giovanni Francesco Guidi del Bagno, vice-legate to...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: after 1621
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8728
Title:: FRANÇOIS ANNIBAL D'ESTRÉES: Memoires sur la régence de la reine Marie de Médicis; 18th cent. Italian translation. Possibly imperfect. Italian translation of the memoirs of François Annibal Duc d'Estrées, Marquis de Cœuvres and Maréchal de France, relating to the regency of France by Marie de' Medici until the death in 1617 of her Prime Minister, the Florentine adventurer Concino Concini, Count Della Penna and Marquis d'Ancre. D'Estrées apparently wrote his account between 1617-1642, during t...
Scope & Content:: includes: ff. 1-64 Louis XIII of France: Biography: François Annibal II d' Estrées, Duc; Maréchal; Ambassador at Rome: Pierre le Moyne, Jesuit: D. P. G, translator: Memoirs of the regency of Marie de' Medici by François Annibal II d' Estrées, revised by P. le Moyne: 18th cent.: Ital. transl. ff...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 18th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8729
Title:: TRACTS RELATING TO FRANCE AND ITS CLAIM ON SPANISH TERRITORIES; 1st half of 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Anonymous relazione (art. 1, ff. 2-39v) relating to the monarchy of France and the Spanish usurpation of French territories since the reign of Charles VIII of France (1484-1498). The paper is offered to the King of France, probably Louis XIII (1610-1643), and concerns the loss of the Kingdom of Sicily and Naples, Milan, Flanders, Rossiglione, and Navarra. It is followed by (art. 2, ff. 39v-7...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 1st half of 17th cent. France General: Louis XIII of France: Papers rel. to France and its claim to Spanish territories, offered to Louis XIII: 1st half of 17th cent.: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1st half of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8730
Title:: COLLECTION OF 87 AVVISI TO THE PAPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FROM FRANCE; 1624-1627. Italian, Latin, and French. Partly copies, partly in cipher. Imperfect. The avvisi list miscellaneous news (wars and politics, trade, gossip and natural events) and were sent as enclosures to the nuncio's weekly reports to Rome. The present MS. contains a collection of avvisi sent together with his dispatches by Bernardino Spada, papal nuncio to France between 30 Dec. 1623 – 27 Feb. 1627. The dispatches cover the...
Scope & Content:: Louis XIII of France: Newsletters From France: Bernardino Spada, Archbishop of Damietta; nuncio to France; Cardinal 1626: Avvisi di Francia, etc.,: 1624-1627: Ital., Lat. and Fr: Partly copies and in cipher. Imperfect. includes: f. 30-31v Girolamo Gori: Letter to Card. B. Spada: 1624: Ital: Au...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 1624-1627
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8731
Title:: CESARE MAGALOTTI: Journal of the nunziatura to France of Cardinal Francesco Barberini; 1633. Italian. Copy. Journal of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, legatus a latere to France of Pope Urban VIII 17 March - 20 Dec. 1625, written by Barberini's secretary Cesare Magalotti. The present MS. was possibly part of a set of two volumes, in which the second volume contained the journal of Barberini's nunziatura to Spain. See the title (f. 1) 'Relatione Diaria De Viaggi di Francia, e di Spagna dell'Emi...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 1633. Louis XIII of France: Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Cesare Magalotti, Secretary to Card. F Barberini: Journal of the nunziatura to France of Card. F. Barberini by Cesare Magalotti: 1633: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1633
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8732
Title:: DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND MEMORIALS RELATING TO COLOGNE AND FRANCE, together with a tract on ambassadorial precedence at the papal court; 1478-1638. Italian, and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Compilation relating to diplomatic missions of papal nuncios at Cologne and French ambassadors in Rome. Table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand, possibly the same hand as the old foliation. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '392' in pencil in top left cor...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-194 Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Instructions to Card. M. Ginetti: [1636]: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-194 Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Instructions from Card. F. Barberini: [1636]: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-194 Urban VIII; Pope: Pietro Ben...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

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