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31. Add MS 8323

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DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI relating to the peace congress in Cologne during the Thirty Years War and the mission of Cardinal Legate Marzio Ginetti; 1636-1641. Italian and Latin. Copies. In 1635 Cardinal Ginetti was appointed by Urban VIII as legatus a latere at Cologne to preside over a peace congress between France, Spain, and Germany. He left Rome only in 1636. After four years of fruitless efforts to organise the congress he was called back to Italy in 1640 and his mission was ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to his peace mission to Cologne: 1636-1641: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Cologne, Germany: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to the congress of Cologne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1636-1641
Extent:
1 item

32. Add MS 8324

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) oration (art. 6) on the Sack of Rome by Giovanni Stafileo, Bishop of Sibenik, 1528; - (b) letter (art. 7) from Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France, to Cardinal Louis de Nogaret d'Epernon de La Valette, Archbishop of Toulouse, relating to...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1623-1644: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 113-118 Clement VII; Pope: Johannes Staphyleus, Bishop of Sibenik: Oration on the Sack of Rome by Johannes Staphyleus: 1528: Lat: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1623-1644
Extent:
1 item

33. Add MS 8325

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, Sweden, Tunisia, Alsace, Venice, Spain, and Monaco; circa 1641-1671. Italian, French and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 7) the account of the trial of the Milanese doctor and alchemist Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695) written by the Italian historian Gregorio Leti (1630-1701), published as Sommario del Processo di Gioseppe Francesco Borri Milanese condannato e sentetiato dal Tribunale del S. Officio per Eretico... pub...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-19v Christina of Sweden: Giovanni Rinaldo Monaldeschi, Esquire of Queen Christina of Sweden: Relazione and treatise rel. to the murder of G. R. Monaldeschi by order of Qu. Christina of Sweden: circa 1657: Ital: Copies. ff. 20-34 Ah...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1641-1671
Extent:
1 item

34. Add MS 8326

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of treatises relating to dynastic, administrative and ambassadorial matters involving the Papal Court, Naples and Sicily, Spain, and France, during the papacies of Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII; circa 1623-1667. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes (art. 1) a discourse relating to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, written by Giovanni Ciampoli (1590-1643). Another copy of this text in Vienna, Österreichische...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-98 Innocent II; Pope: Giovanni Ciampoli, Papal secretary and poet: Roger II of Naples and Sicily: Treatise rel. to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, by Giovanni Ciampoli: bef. 1643: Ital: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1623-1667
Extent:
1 item

35. Add MS 8327

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, France, Poland, Savoy, Spain, Bohemia, and Venice, mostly during the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1598-1655. Italian. Copies. Title-pages with pendecoration throughout. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later: entitled 'Indice del tomo 44', with '44' later crossed out and corrected in '66-67'. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCIII' in upper right corner of f. i, and '537' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Matt...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Miscellany of historical papers, mostly rel. to: circa 1598-1651: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 109-133 John Casimir of Poland: Letters of, and treatises rel. to, as Cardinal: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 134-144v Tommaso Francesco Sav...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1598-1655
Extent:
1 item

36. Add MS 8328

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical treatises, relazioni and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, Spain, England, and Savoy; circa 1593-1672. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCIV' in upper right corner of f. i, and '538' in ink in fourth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 538 (vol. 94 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armori...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-26v Clement VIII; Pope: Ludovico Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers: Treatise rel. to the absolution of Henry IV of France: circa 1593-1594: Ital: Copy. ff. 2-26v Henry IV of France: Treatise rel. to his absolution from the Pope: circa 1593-1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1593-1672
Extent:
1 item

37. Add MS 8329

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; - (b) discourse, letter and terms of agreement (arts. 2, 6-7) relating to the reconciliation of the Barberinis with Pope Innocent X, 1646; - (c) speech (art. 3) on Tuscany's neutrality addressed to Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Traiano Ma...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff.2-41 John IV of Portugal: Manifesto: 1647: Ital: Copy. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Innocent X; Pope: Historical papers rel. to his agreement with the Barberinis: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Barberini family; of Rome: Historical pape...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619-1649
Extent:
1 item

38. Add MS 8330

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RELAZIONE of Rome and Petition to the Pope, possibly Innocent X(1644-1655); circa 1644-1656. Italian. Copies. The relazione of Rome (art. 1) relates to the recently elected Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667). Table of contents (f. 1) added later. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCVI' in upper right corner of f. i, and '540' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 540 (vol. 96 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-96v Alexander VII; Pope: Giovanni Pesaro, Venetian Ambassador: Carlo Contarini; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Pesaro: 1656: Ital: Copy. ff. 97-112v Ceremonials: Innocent X; Pope: Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestri...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1644-1656
Extent:
1 item

39. Add MS 8331

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to ambassadorial precedence at the papal court for representatives of the Republic of Genoa, after 1641; - (b) discourse (art. 4) addressed to Queen Christina of Sweden by the Dutch scholar Theodor Ameyden in celebration of the treaty of peace with the...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political treatises and satires rel. to: circa 1613-1652: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-84v Republic of Genoa: Ceremonials: Ambassadors: Treatises rel. to ambassadorial precedence of Genoese represe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1613-1652
Extent:
1 item

40. Add MS 8332

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and political tracts relating to France, Rome, Germany, Bohemia, and Naples; circa 1619-1660. Italian. One draft (art. 1) and copies. The MS. includes: - (a) letters and treatise (arts. 1-3) relating to Jean François Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz, and his opposition to Cardinal Giulio Mazarin, Prime Minister of Louis XIV of France, 1653-1660; - (b) manifesto (art. 4) of Prince Frederick Elector Palatine of the Rhine issued after his coronation as King of...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-27v Jean François Paul de Gondi, Archbishop of Paris; Cardinal de Retz 1652: Letter to the archbishops and bishops of France: [1660]: Ital. transl.: Draft. ff. 28-32 Louis XIV of France: Innocent X; Pope: Letter to Innocent X from ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1619-1660
Extent:
1 item