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1. Add MS 8290

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political tracts, letters, relazioni, and conclave accounts relating to Portugal, Turkey, the Papacy, France, the German Empire, Venice, Persia, Poland, and Tunisia; circa 1544-1576. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 10, ff. 334v-375v) a letter-book of Cardinal Angelo Niccolini, Archbishop of Pisa, relating to his promotion to cardinal in 1563. Table of contents (ff. 477-477v), added later. Old shelfmarks '285' in ink on outer margin of front pastedown, abov...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-63 Sebastian of Portugal: Relazione, letter, and tracts rel. to: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 10-63 Political Tracts: On Portugal: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 63-67v Gregory XIII; Pope: Account of conclave: 1572: Ital: Copy. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1544-1576
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8301

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papal instructions, relazioni, and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the German Empire, Persia and Turkey; circa 1507-1619. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. XLIX' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '493' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 493 (vol. 49 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-17v Alexander de' Medici, Cardinal of Florence: Clement VIII; Pope: Henry IV of France: Instructions to Alexander de' Medici from Clement VIII , rel. to France: 1596: Ital: Copy. ff. 18-21 Netherlands, General: Venice: Heads of agr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8646

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RELAZIONI OF CONSTANTINOPLE; 1572-1595. Italian. Copies, late 17th cent. A collection of relazioni from Venetian Ambassadors and other Venetian citizens at Costantinople. Detailed table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, possibly as part of lot 358, together with Add. 8645, 8649, 8651, 8652, and 8653. 1. ff. 2-14v. 'Relatione del Clarissimo Messer Marino de' Cavalli ...
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Turkey; General: City of Constantinople: Venice: Relazioni of Constantinople: late 16th cent.: Ital: Copies, late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-12v Marino Cavalli, Venetian ambassador to Germany and at Constantinople: Relazione of Constantinople: 1560: Ital: Copy. ff. 13-40 Marc'Antonio Barbaro, ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 10262

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A COLLECTION of numerous Original and other Papers, partly manuscript, partly printed, relating chiefly to Turkey, Persia, and Africa; the greater part are in Spanish, a few in Italian or Latin. xvith and xviith cents. Folio. [10,262.]
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Turkey: Papers relating to Turkey, Persia and Africa.: Span., Ital., Lat. Persia: Papers relating to Turkey, Persia, and Africa.: Span. Ital. Lat. Africa: Papers relating to.: Span. Ital. Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th and 17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 37937

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TWO FRAGMENTS of [the same?] history of affairs in Europe and the Levant in the latter part of the 16th century, in Italian. The first portion (ff. 1-77) deals, after some preliminary explanations, with the history of the year 1585 ; the second (ff. 78-197) with 1595. The latter portion has an old foliation beginning with f. 245. In both cases the greatest space is given to affairs in France or to those in Turkey and the East, but Savoy, the Papal States, Spain and England also come under no...
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Hungary: Account of the war with the Turks on the Hungarian frontier: 16th-17th centt.: Ital. France General: History: 1585-1595.: Ital. History: Survey of European history: 16th-17th centt.: Ital. Italy: Events in 1585 and 1595,: 16th cent.: Ital. Duchy of Savoy: Notes of events in: late 16...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1600
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38026

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ITINERARIO ORIENTALE: an Italian translation of the Itinerario de las Missiones (in India, China, etc.) of Fr. Sebastian Manrique, a Portugtuese Augustinian, which was published at Rome in 1649 (another edition dated 1653 is really the same, with a different title-page). The translation, which i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 43217

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Vol. CLXXIX, 1809-1825. Hon Sir Robert Gordon, GCB; diplomatist: General correspondence: 1809-1846. includes: ff. 3 -9 Hon Sir Robert Gordon, GCB; diplomatist: Journal of voyage in the Persian gulf: 1809.: Imperf.ff. 3-9 Persia: Journal, by R. Gordon, of his voyage in the Persian gulf: 18...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1809-1825
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 47243 A

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Vol. VIII. (ff. 136). 1791-1809. Army of Russia: Correspondence and papers of Prince Lieven rel. to: 1791-[1838?].: Fr., Germ. and Russ.: Partly printed. includes: ff. 4-26, 139, 140 Voyages and Travels: Prince and Princess Lieven: 1793-1838, n.d.: Engl., Fr., Germ., Ital. and Russ.ff. 4-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Russian
Date Range:
1791-1809
Extent:
1 item