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Language Italian Name Mattei Library Place Milan, Italy

1. Add MS 8310

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Title:
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

2. Add MS 8351

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RELAZIONE AND LETTER relating to Spain, Milan, Naples and Sicily; circa 1555-1653. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. ii), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CIX' in upper right corner of f. i: identifiable with Mattei MS. 553 (vol. 109 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8333, 8334,...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-38 Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba; Viceroy of Naples; Governor of the Netherlands: Milan: Relazione of Milan offered to Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo: circa 1555: Ital: Copy. ff. 39-88v Philip III of Naples and Sicily: Iñi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1555-1653
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8354

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Add MS 8354
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RELAZIONI AND HISTORICAL TREATISES relating to France, Savoy, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Spain, Valtelline, Naples, Parma and Piacenza; circa 1546-1670. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (ff. i and i verso), added later. Old shelfmark in ink '14[2]' in fifth spine compartment: possibly identifiable with Mattei MS. 142 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 31. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '336' in pencil in upper left corner of front pasted...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-86v Marino Cavalli, Venetian ambassador to Germany and at Constantinople: Francis I of France: Francesco Donà; Doge of Venice: Relazione of France by Marino Cavalli: [1546]: Ital: Copy. ff. 87-131 Giovanni Correr, Venetian ambassad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1546-1670
Extent:
1 item