Language: Italian / Name: Mattei Library / Place: Switzerland - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8298
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historic chronicles, relazioni, papal instructions, letters and discourse relating to the Hanseatic League, Monferrato, Great Britain, Rome, Mantua, Spain, India, Florence, Bohemia, Lucca, Modena, Switzerland, Poland, Prussia, and Portugal; 1391, and circa 1558-1626. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also includes (art. 18, ff. 135-200) a memorial on the reform of the Company of Jesus by the Spanish Father Juan Mariana (1536-1624), circa 1605...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-20 Hanseatic League: Anonymous history and relazione of the: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 25-27 James I of England: Abridged life of: circa 1601: Ital: Copy. ff. 28-36 Richard II of England: Boniface IX; Pope: Bull of Bonifa...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: 17th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8301
Title:: 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 ...
Scope & Content:: 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

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8302
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, and letters mainly relating to the Council of Trent and the wars of religion in France; circa 1560-1570. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) relazione (art. 1) of Switzerland, 1560; - (b) relazione (art. 2) of Rome, before 1562; - (c) relazione (art. 15) of France, 1561; - (d) dispatches (art. 17) from France of the papal nuncio Prospero Publicola Santacroce, 1562-1563; - (e) relation (art. 18) of the death of F...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Council of Trent: Letters and tracts rel. to: 1560-1563: Ital: Copies. Philip II of Spain: France General: Pius IV; Pope: Emanuel Philibert; Duke of Savoy: Charles IX of France; Catherine de Medici: Diplomatic letters rel. to: 1560: Span. and Ital...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:: c 1560-1570
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 8305
Title:: MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies. Including (art. 7, ff. 75-85) an anonymous commentary on the first book of the Historiae by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LI' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '495.' in ink in ...
Scope & Content:: Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political and historical tracts: circa 1563-1621: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-5 Switzerland: Relazione of: circa 1562-1564: Ital: Copy. ff. 6-10 Pius V; Pope: Discourse rel. to papal authority: circa 1569: Ital: Copy. ff. 11-2...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: c 1562-1621
Extent:: 1 item

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