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231. Add MS 8368

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GIAMPIETRO MAFFEI: Annals of Gregory XIII; 1572-1585. Italian. Copies. Annals of the papacy of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), written by the Jesuit historian Giampietro Maffei of Bergamo (1535-1603), and completed, revised and corrected after his death by Paolo Teggia (d. 1620). In the present MS. the text is divided into fourteen books. The text was originally bound in two separate volumes, the first volume (now ff. 1-305) containing books 1-8 (1572-1579), the second (now ff. 306-565) books 9-14...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/E): bef. 1817. Gregory XIII; Pope: Giampietro Maffei, Jesuit: Paolo Teggia, Jesuit: Annals of Gregory XIII by Giampietro Maffei, revised by Paolo Teggia: 1572-1585: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1572-1585
Extent:
1 item

232. Add MS 8369

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LIFE OF POPE SIXTUS V: biography of Pope Sixtus V, Felice Peretti (1525-1590); 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Title (f. 40) 'Vita e morte di Sisto V'. Inc. ' Nacque Sisto V nella Marcha cio ì nel Castello delle Grotte luogho che mille e cinquecento Anime in circa nel Territorio di Montalto', expl. (f. 357) 'e di Loro non servirsene se non nelli più urgenti bisogne'. The main text is preceded by anonymous instructions to Cardinal Alessandro Damasconi Perreti de Montalto (1570-1623) on how to condu...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef.1828. includes: ff. 2-39v Alessandro Damasconi Peretti de Montalto, Cardinal: Instructions to him as nephew of Pope Sixtus V: circa 1587: Ital: Copy. ff. 40-357 Sixtus V; Pope: Life of Pope Sixtus V: circa 1590: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

233. Add MS 8370

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BAGLIONI LETTER-BOOK: Registers of dispatches to and from Malatesta Baglioni, Bishop of Pesaro, as papal nuncio to the Emperor Ferdinand II (8 Sept. 1634 - 8 Aug. 1639); 1634-1637. Italian. Copies. The register contains mostly copies of dispatches that were originally sent in cipher to Baglioni by other papal nuncios. The dispatches are divided chronologically into six books; the last seventh book (ff. 125v-129) contains a few dispatches from Baglioni to other nuncios, dated 27 Dec. 1634 - 1...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Letter-book of M. Baglioni as papal nuncio: 1634-1637: Ital: Copies. Malatesta Baglioni, Bishop of Pesaro; Bishop of Assisi: Letter-book: 1634-1637: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1634-1637
Extent:
1 item

234. Add MS 8371

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
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Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

235. Add MS 8372

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PAPERS relating to the dispute between Urban VIII and Odoardo Farnese; 1641-1645. Italian and Latin. Papers relating to the dispute between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and the Duke Odoardo Farnese (1622-1646) over territories in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. The dispute was the cause of the so-called War of Castro between the Papacy and the League formed by Odoardo Farnese, Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany, Duke Francis I of Modena, and the Republic of Venice. Many of the collected papers rel...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum, gilt-tooled, restored: mid 17th cent. Genoa; Doges of: Papers rel. to the dispute between Urban VIII and the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1643: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Papers rel. to the dispute with the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1645:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1641-1645
Extent:
1 item

236. Add MS 8373

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza during the Papacy of Clement XII, and to the promotion of Vincenzo Bichi to the Cardinalate at the instance of the Portuguese court; 1717-1732. Italian. Partly printed. The MS. includes a miscellaneous collection of papers relating to Vincenzo Bichi and the controversy between the Holy See and state powers on the right of selecting nuncios representing the Holy See in foreign states. Vincenzo Bichi was nuncio in Portugal and ...
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includes: ff. 64-83 Piacenza, Italy: Parma, Italy: Papers rel. to: 1731-1732: Ital. and Lat. ff. 66-67 Clement XII; Pope: Printed Matter: Address of Clement XII on Parma: 1731: Ital: Printed. ff. 69-72 Clement XII; Pope: Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae; printers: Printed Matter: Prot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1717-1732
Extent:
1 item

237. Add MS 8374

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ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT of the uprising of students in the Jesuit college at Rome in 1647 at the time of Innocent X (1644-1655); circa 1647. Italian. Copy. The student revolt was prompted by the introduction of stricter rules of discipline by Francesco Palazzi, the new dean of the seminary, and encouraged by an heretical student. This student may have been Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695), later renowned as an heretical doctor and alchemist. Borri was in fact expelled from the college in 1647 ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Full vellum: early 19th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Rome; Jesuit College: Account of the uprising of students in the Jesuit College at Rome: 1647: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1647
Extent:
1 item

238. Add MS 8375

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS of Innocent X; 1650. Italian. The work comprises short lifes of the seventy-three cardinals of the Sacred College in 1650, the year of the Jubilee, beginning (ff. 13-16v) with Camillo Pamphili, Cardinal-Nepote of Innocent X and later Prince, and ending (ff. 481v-483v) with Marcello Lanti. The text is a revised and enlarged version of another MS. work entitled La Stadiera de Prencipi Porporati. The work is dedicated (ff. 6-7) to an Italian prince, who had commissioned t...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with decorated paper pastedowns and flyleaves: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/D): bef. 1828. Biography: Innocent X; Pope: Lives of cardinals in the Jubilee year: 1650: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1650
Extent:
1 item

239. Add MS 8376

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INSTRUZIONI DIVERSE: Instructions to Papal nuncios, cardinals and governors on how to govern and conduct themselves; circa 1582-1591. Italian. Copy. The present MS. is listed in P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68a. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '392' in pencil in upper left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8340, 8356, 8406, 8475, 8481, 8535, 8675, 8702, 8732, 8763 and 8777, from R. H. Evans, 10 Dec. 1830, lot 3...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef.1828. includes: ff. 1-34 Netherlands, General: Instructions conc. Pietro Caetano's appointment as Papal Nuncio to Flanders, to P. Caetano fron E. Caetano: 1590: Ital: Copy. ff. 1-34 Enrico Caetano, Cardinal: Pietro Caetano, Papal Nuncio to Flanders: Inst...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1582-1591
Extent:
1 item

240. Add MS 8377

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GIOVANNI ANTONIO THOMASI: Discorso sopra la vita del Cardinale Di Luca; circa 1683-1689. Italian and Latin. Copy. Life of Cardinal Giovanni Battista De Luca (1614-1683). Title (f. 1) 'Discorso sopra la vita Dell' Eminentissimo Signore Cardinal De Luca con alcune riflessioni non inutili al Curiale.' Inc. (f. 3) 'È comune parere de Naturali, che la qualità dell'Aria, la temperie del clima, e la nobilità del sito dove nasce', expl. (f. 89v) 'Alle cui glorie per tanto siricercavano più torto i p...
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Giovanni Antonio Tomasi, Italian historian: Giovanni Battista De Luca, Cardinal; Italian canonist: Life of Card. G.B. De Luca,: circa 1683-1689: Ital: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna library: late 18th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1683-1689
Extent:
1 item

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