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1. Add MS 33733-33791

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Add MS 33733-33791
Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

2. Add MS 33753

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(Gr. xxviii.) "VITA di Madama Maria Mazzarini, Contestabilessa Colonna ": memoirs of Maria Mancini-Mazarini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin and wife (1661) of Lorenzo Onuphrio Colonna, Duke of Taliacoti, etc., Constable of Naples. Italian. ]Purporting to be composed by herself, with the exception of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 33754

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(Gr. xxxii.) "LA VITA d'Innocentio XII.," or " Relacione della Corte di Roma," etc. : an account of the life and character of Pope Innocent XII. and his Cardinals, and of the system of the Papal Court, composed " da un personaggio " for the Marchese Clemente Vitelli, Florentine ambassador at Rom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 33756

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Scope & Content:
(Gr. li.) " MEMORIALE del viaggio di frate Oderiogo di Friuli ": an Italian version of the travels to Cathay, etc., circ. 1318- 1330, of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone, or Friuli, transcribed by the Cavaliere Alessandro di Mortara from an ancient copy in his own possession. Neither this tran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 33762

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(Gr. xvii.) " DESCRITTIONE del Mar Negro, e della Tartaria, par il Dottor Emidio Dortelli d'Ascoli, Lett: Dom: Prefetto del Caffa [sc. Kaffa, in the Crimea], Tartaria, &c., 1634." The Tartary described (f. 21 b) is not the " Gran Tartaria Asiatica," but "Tartaria Sarmata," sc. the Crimea. Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1634
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 33763

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Add MS 33763
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Scope & Content:
(Gr. xxxiv.) "IDEA di una nuova Istoria Generale dell' America Settentrionale," etc. A translation in Italian by - Mac Egan, Colonel in the Neapolitan service, from the Spanish work, Idea de una nueva Historia General de la America Septentrional, of Lorenzo Boturini-Benaduci, Madrid, 1746. See T...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1750
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 33790

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Title:
Antonio Francesco Doni, La Lumiera (autograph manuscript)
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains an autograph copy of La Lumiera, an Italian poem in fifty eight-line stanzas, written by Antonio Francesco Doni (b. 1513, d. 1574). The poem is a lament that mourns the ultimate fate of man and his failings in the world. It is preceded in the manuscript by a short letter...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1567
Extent:
1 volume