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641. Add MS 8796

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Other catalogues of the same collection in Add. 8794 and 8795. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Nazionale of Bargello (Florence, 1984), pp. xlv-xlvii. Title (f. 1) 'Liber continens nummos antiquos Romanos...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

642. Add MS 8799

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COLLECTION OF HUMANISTIC HISTORICAL TEXTS; 3rd quarter of 15th cent. Latin. The collection includes Poggio Bracciolini, De varietate Fortunae, Books 1-3 (art. 1, ff. 2-51v), Matteo Palmieri, Liber de temporibus (art. 2, ff. 52-109), Agostino Dati, Historia Senensis (art. 3, ff. 110-157v), and a letter from Morbassan neber Gessi to Pope Clement VI (art. 4, ff. 158-159). The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, nos. 343-346, p. 24, and briefly described in P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, iv (19...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Original 15th-cent. wooden boards with late 18th-early 19th cent. decorated paper covers and remains of quarter leather binding, detached: 3rd quarter 15th cent.: Map scale 1:GU. Siena, Italy: History: Chronicles: Collection of humanistic historical texts: 3rd quarter 15th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

643. Add MS 8801

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STUDENT NOTES ON COMMENTARIES TO CICERO, VIRGIL, SENECA; 1593-1594. Latin and Italian. Autograph. Possibly imperfect. Notes in Latin and Italian collected during lessons, mostly by Leone Lancerini (see ff. 109, 120, 128), a student attending the first class of Humanities at the Jesuit College in Rome, the so-called Collegio Romano, in 1593-1594. The commentary notes, mostly incomplete, concern excerpts from the Tusculanae disputationes, Book V, De officiis, Book II, Oratio pro lege Manilia, ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: circa 1594. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Publius Virgilius Maro: Student notes to commentaries by F. Sacchini and others rel. to: 1593-1594: Lat. and Ital. Francesco Sacchini, Jesuit historian and professor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1593-1594
Extent:
1 item

644. Add MS 8802

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CLEMENTE OLIGNANI: HUMANITATIS LIBER; 1687. Latin and Italian. Autograph. A collection of historical and moral commonplaces in Italian and Latin in alphabetical order, assembled by Olignani, pupil of the Roman College in Rome, in preparation of his future studies in Rhetoric. According to the Italian preface (f. 2), dated 'primo Ottobre 1687', the collection is based on the teaching of Father Giovan Battista Simonetti. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Comitis Clementis Olignani Humanitatis Liber'...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: circa 1687. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Count Clemente Olignani: 1687: Ital. Giovan Battista Simonetti, Jesuit professor in Rome: Commonplace Book by C. Olignani after: 1687: Lat. and Ital. Commonplace Books: Count Clemente Olignani,; of Ventimiglia: Commonplace...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1687
Extent:
1 item

645. Add MS 8803

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MATTEO RICCI: Treatise on Friendship; 1595-1599, 1724. Chinese, Italian, and Latin. Autograph. A collection of moral sentences from ancient Western authors put together and translated into Chinese by father Matteo Ricci (1552-1610), the famous Jesuit missionary, in Nanchang at the end of 1595, and dedicated to Qian Zhai, prince of Jian'an (Jian'an wang). Ricci's main literary source was probably the 5th edition of Andrea de Rèsende, Sententiae et exempla ex probatissimis quibusque scriptorib...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled brown calf, with original xylographic pastedowns: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 7-29v Matteo Ricci, Jesuit and mathematician: Treatise on Friendship: 1595-1599: Chinese and Ital: autogr. ff. 33-34 M...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Chinese, English, and Italian
Date Range:
1595-1724
Extent:
1 item

646. Add MS 8804

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VINCENZO ROGADEI: Pastoral letters and Oration to Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples and Sicily; 1810-1812. Italian. Signed. The MS. was offered in 1812 by Rogadei, bishop of Caserta, to Caroline Bonaparte, sister of Napoleon I and wife of Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Sicily (r. 1808-1815). At the time she was acting as Queen Regent on behalf of her husband who was engaged with Napoleon in the Russian campaign. Rogadei sympathised with those who hoped for the unification of Italy under...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled green leather, with initial 'C' at centre of boards: circa 1812. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford 'L/16/E': bef. 1828. Joachim Murat of Naples and Sicily; Caroline: Pastoral letters and Oration offered by V. Rogadei, Bishop of Caserta, to: 1810-181...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1810-1812
Extent:
1 item

647. Add MS 8805

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INSTRUCTIONS TO KINGS AND PRINCES on how to conduct themselves and govern their countries; 1740. Italian and Latin. Copy. The anonymous treatise mentions the succession of Charles of Gonzaga Nevers to Vincenzo Gonzaga in 1627 (f. 4); Philip IV of Spain (1621-1665) as defender of the Catholic faith against the protestants (f. 39v); the death of Ferdinand II of Austria in 1637 (f. 40); Louis XIV of France forgiving the participants to the Fronde of the Princes in 1654 (f. 84). The MS. is entit...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 18th cent. Political Tracts: Instructions to kings and princes, anonymous tract: 1740: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1740
Extent:
1 item

648. Add MS 8806

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MICHELE LONIGO: Discourses of ecclesiastical etiquette; circa 1608-1644. Italian. Copy. Short tracts relating to problems of etiquette addressed to various cardinals and bishops by Michele Lonigo, deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library and Master of Ceremonies of the Papal Chapel at the time of Paul V, Gregory XV and Urban VIII. Among others the tracts are addressed to Louis de Nogaret d'Épernon, cardinal de La Valette (ff. 2-12v), cardinal Ascanio Colonna (ff. 13-18v), cardinal Girolamo Colo...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Ceremonials: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Michele Lonigo, Deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library; Papal Master of Ceremonies: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ecclesiastical etiquette by Michele Lonigo: circa 1608-1644: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1608-1644
Extent:
1 item

649. Add MS 8807

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LELIO MARRETTI: Ricordi Politici, vol. ii; circa 1610-1611. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti (1530-1617), a nobleman of Siena and a member (from 1557) of the Accademia degli Intronati in Siena (with the name of Attonito), was Prior of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome and 'familiare' of Cardinals Alessandro (d. 1581) and Francesco Sforza (d. 1624). For Cardinal Francesco he wrote the relazioni of the conclaves for the elections of Gregory XIV (1590), Innocent IX (1591), and Clement VII...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full reversed skin over limp pasteboards: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 2nd half 18th cent. Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: L. Maretti, Ricordi politici, part II, [dedicated to]: circa 1610-1611: Ital: Copy, 18th cent. Lelio Marretti, Secretary to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

650. Add MS 8808

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COLLECTION OF POLITICAL TREATISES; late 15th-18th cent. Latin, Italian, and French. Partly autograph. Acquisition note (f. 17) relating to art. 4 (ff. 18-59v) 'Comperato nella vendita dei libri del Commendator Buondelmonti'. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/A' (front pastedown). '521' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8761, 8762, 8809, and 8810, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 521 (part). Paper; ff. 59+ii, plus ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/A): bef. 1828. Political Tracts: Collection of: late 15th-18th cent.: Lat., Ital., and Fr: Partly autograph. includes: ff. 1-6 Ermolao Barbaro, Venetian Ambassador and Patriarch of Aquileia:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

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