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1. Add MS 8262

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters, tracts and orations relating to the Papacy, Spain, France, Venice, the German Empire, Austria, Dalmatia, Turkey, Savoy, Florence, Naples, Genoa, and Ethiopia; circa 1494-1585. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes relazioni of: - (a) Spain by Federico Badoer, 1557 (ff. 1-81v): other copies in Add. 29444 (ff. 440-507: dated 1558), Lansdowne 840 A (ff. 31-91: dated 1558), Royal 14.A.XIII (art. 6, ff. 225-384: dated 1558...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-81v Philip II of Spain: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Lorenzo Priuli; Doge of Venice: Federico Badoer, Venetian Ambassador: Relazione of Spain by Federico Badoer: 1557: Ital: Copy. ff. 82-102v Francis I of France: Andrea ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8264

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, and papal instructions relating to the Papacy, Spain, Modena, Naples, and Cologne; circa 1556-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Partly printed (ff. 206-207). The MS. includes: - (a) speech on good government, allegedly from the Emperor Charles V to his son Philip, 1556 (ff. 1-46v): other copies in Add. 8331 (art. 10, ff. 278-404v; see description for reference to its English translation), 20045 (art. 3, ff. 265-337), and Royal 14.A.XXI...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-46v Philip II of Spain: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Speech on good government allegedly from Charles V to his son Philip II: circa 1556: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 47-124v Urban VIII; Pope: City of Ferrara: Francesco I ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8266

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of summaries of peace treaties, tracts, letters, memorials, papal instructions and accounts of conclaves relating to the Papacy, Siena, the German Empire, Florence, Savoy, and Naples; circa 1447-1569. Latin and Italian. Copies. The first part of the MS. (ff. 3-44) contains summaries of peace treaties and league pacts agreed by European rulers 1510-1559, in Latin and Italian. It also includes: - (a) declarations by the condottiere Piero Strozzi relating to his role in...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 3-44 Treaties: Europe: Summaries of peace treaties and pacts agreed by European rulers: circa 1510-1559: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 45-59 Siena, Italy: Piero Strozzi, of Florence; general of the French army: Declarations rel...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1447-1569
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8281

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, letters, sermons, and political, philosophical and religious tracts relating to England, France, Spain, Genoa, Cyprus, the Papacy, and Tuscany; circa 1554-1559. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes an anonymous relazione of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, entitled 'Ritratti del Regno d'Inghilterra' (ff. 202-224), inc. 'La Regina d'Inghilterra è successivamente hereditaria', another copy of which in Add. 8262 ...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-49v Ceremonials: France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Giacomo Aloisi: Ambassadors: Treatise rel. to ambassadorial precedence at the Papal Court attributed to Giacomo Aloisi: aft. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8282

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COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating mostly to the history of the Church and political affairs in 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1492-1715. Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Copies. Imperfect. Table of contents in Latin (ff. 2-3v), identifying the missing text after f. 80 as a commentary by [Girolamo?] Seripandi on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. 'D.V.10' and 'LXXIII' in pencil, and stamp 'biblioth / h.f. / J770' on f. 1: identifiable with Falconieri MS. 73 in...
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Europe: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Italy General: Miscellany rel. to: 17th-18th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 15-46v Scipio di Castro, political...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1492-1715
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8292

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of religious, political and literary tracts, poems, and letters relating to Naples, Corsica, Florence, Poland, Sweden, and Austria; 15th cent-1794. Italian and Latin, Greek, and English. Copies, partly autograph or signed. The MS. includes: - (a) a fragment of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, on vellum (art. 1, ff. 13-18v), late 15th-early 16th cent.; - (b) a poem (f. 34) on the Tyrrhenian Sea or Mare inferum, in Greek; - (c) a sonnet (art. 4, f. 40) by Vittorio Alf...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 13-18v Giovanni Boccaccio: De claris mulieribus, fragm.: late 15th - early 16th cent.: Lat: Copy. ff. 35-44 Carlo Vespasiano, Italian literary critic: Pietro Napoli Signorelli, Italian historian: Letters to Pietro Napoli Signorelli f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1794
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8544

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COLLECTION RELATING TO GENOA; 12th cent.-1634. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies put together around 1634 by Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino (circa 1558-1635), Genoese historian and man of letters, co-founder, secretary and later Principal (1590) of the Accademia degli Addormentati in 1587, with the name 'Il timido'. The present composite collection concerns relations between the Republic of Genoa and Savoy, France, Spain, the Emperor, the Pope, Florence and other Italian principalities, th...
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Republic of Genoa: Collection of letters and papers rel. to: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino, of Genoa; historian: Collection rel. to Genoa: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. includes: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1634?
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 8688

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FILADELFO MUGNOS: Collection of fair copies of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers relating to successive Dukes of Vietri in the service of Philip II, III, and IV in Italy, 1555-1622; mid 17th cent. Spanish and Italian. Autograph. The MS. was compiled during the reign of Philip IV, 1621-1665 according to royal certification (f. 44). The MS. is described in Gayangos I, pp. 846-8. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in pencil ...
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Philip II of Spain: Philip IV of Spain: Philip III of Spain: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Filadelfo Mugnos, writer on Italian nobility and heraldry: Dukes of Vietri: Collection of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers rel. to successive Dukes of Vietri in the servi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 8689

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PIETRO DE NORES: Account of the Carafa War, Book i; after 1644. Italian. Copy. The detailed account of the so-called Carafa war between Pope Paul IV Carafa and Spain (1555-1557) and its consequences is a work by Pietro De Nores, son of Giason, the exiled Cypriot philosopher and literary critic (on the latter see DBI 38 (1990), pp. 768-773). Pietro began to write the account in Rome during the first years of the papacy of Clement VIII Aldobrandini (1592-1605), but completed it only between 16...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: aft. 1644. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Philip II of Spain: Henry II of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Cosimo I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Paul IV; Pope: Pietro De Nores, historian: Account of the Carafa War, Book I by Pietro ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1644
Extent:
1 item