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11. Add MS 8654

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CARLO RUZZINI: Despatches from Constantinople; 1719-1720. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the 44 dispatches sent to the Doge Giovanni II Corner during Ruzzini's second appointment as Ambasciatore straordinario at Constantinople. Inc. (f. 2) 'Serenissimo Prencipe / Doppo una raggionevole esipanza [sic] dell'Animo, quel Zelo, che fu guida … li 4 Genaio 1718' [i.e. 1719], expl. (f. 163v) 'ne della dignita, ne del riverito Senato di Venetia, e di V.V. E.E. Gratie / Pera di Costantinopoli 4 ott...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum with pastedowns of decorated paper: bef. 1761. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bernardo di Antonio Nani: circa 1730-1761. City of Constantinople: Ahmad III; Sultan of Turkey: Carlo Ruzzini, Venetian Ambassador Straordinario at Constantinople: Giovanni II Corner; Doge ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1719-1720
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1 item

12. Add MS 8778

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GIOVANNI CARLO SCARAMELLI: Relazione of Poland and other related papers; 1573-1574. Italian and Latin. Copy. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli was Secretary to Girolamo Lippomano, the Venetian ambassador sent to Krakow after the election of Henri de Valois as King of Poland (20 Sept. 1573 – 1575); cf. Lippomano's relazione published in Albèri, s. I, vol. 6 (Florence, 1862), pp. 271-316. After his service in Poland Scaramelli probably followed Lippomano to Naples (1575-1576), France (1576-1579) and C...
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Bindings POLISH: Blind-roll stamped binding of brown calf: circa 1574. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. Henry of Valois of Poland: Collected papers and relazione by G. C. Scaramelli rel. to: 1573-1574: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, of V...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1574
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1 item

13. Add MS 22910

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VOL. I. 1. LETTERS to Dr. Covel from: David Llewelin; Kegworth, 10 May, 1662, f. 19. Laurence Womock [Archdeacon of Suffolk]; 19 Jan. 1668/9 , f. 25. R. Langhorne [of the Inner Temple]; 24 Feb. 1669[70], f. 27. [Sir] Eliab Haruey; London, 17 Mar. 1669[70], f. 29. Robert Huntington [afterwards Bi...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 27604

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1. JOURNAL of Joseph Daere Carlyle, B.D., professor of Arabic at Cambridge, while at Mount Athos cataloguing the monastic libraries; 31 Mar.-17 Apr. [1801.] Cf. Add. MS. 27,234. f. 1. 2. Catalogue of the library of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, taken at Constantinopel by Professor Carlyle and Philip Hunt, LL.D.; Jan. 1801. Turkish, Greek, etc. f. 89. 3. Fragments of diaries of Professor Carlyle at Constantinople, etc. 29 Dec. 1799, 1 Jan., 9, 28 Sept. 1800. Partly autograph. f. 106. 4....
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Joseph Dacre Carlyle, Vicar of Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Diary of a visit to Mount Athos: 1799-1801. includes: f. 1 Mount Athos: Diary of Prof. Carlyle at: 1801. ff. 1-88, 106-130 Diaries and Memoranda: Prof. Jos. D. Carlyle: 1799-1801. f. 89 Jerusalem: Catalogue of the library of the Patriarch,: 1...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1799-1801
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 34727

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WEST PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 289). Miscellaneous letters, mostly original, of interest historically or otherwise; 1532-1734. The names of all the writers are given in the index. Among them are:- 1. John Fox, the Martyrologist, to Sir [William] Cecil, Sec. of State, asking licence to print his Tab...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1734
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 34942

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Vol. XLI. (II. ff. 292). July-0ct. 1798. Egypt: Papers relating to the French Army in: 1798-1800. includes: ff. 1, 24, 37 France; Sovereigns of, and Transactions in particular reigns. Republic: Report to the Directory of the proceedings of the Army in Egypt: 1798.: Copies. f. 27 France; Sover...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
Jul 1798-Oct 1798
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 41315

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ELLIS PAPERS. Vol. IV. Letters and journal of John Bidwell, a clerk in the Foreign Office (d. 1853; biographical notice, taken from Foreign Office List, 1854, p. 63, on f. 7), while attached to the mission of Robert Adair in 1808-9 to negotiate peace with Turkey. Lithographed portraits of Bidwel...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
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1 item

18. Add MS 41600

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TREATISE ON THE COMPOTUS, with other astronomical and chronological matter. A list of the contents and of the miniatures in the manuscript is given in F. Saxl and H. Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter HSS., vol. iii (ed. H. Bober), Handschriften in Englischen Bibliotheken, part i, 1953, pp. 82-88. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., iii, 1928-1929, pp. 13-14 and plate vii. (1) 'Incipit liber computi et kalendarii et pertinentium ad illa pulcerimus', beg. ' Quoniam s...
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Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Treatise on the Compotus, etc.: tinted drawings and miniatures of the Zodiac, constellations, planets, etc.: circ. 1454. includes: ff. 1, 5 b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Barozzi family, of Venice: Arms(?): circ. 1454. ff. 1, 5b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Heraldry: Arms[of...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1454
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 43218

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Vol. CLXXX, 1826-1846. Hon Sir Robert Gordon, GCB; diplomatist: General correspondence: 1809-1846. includes: f. 1 Friedrich von Gentz, German statesman: Letter to Sir R. Gordon: 1826.: Fr. f. 9 Prince Alois Joseph Johann Nepomuk von Liechtenstein,; Austrian statesman: Letters to Sir R. Gordon...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1826-1846
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 43229

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Vol. CXCI (ff. 378). 1801- 1808. Sir William Drummond, scholar and diplomatist: Letters to Lord Aberdeen: 1803-1808. includes: ff. 1-235 passim Reverend George Downing Whittington, writer on architecture: Correspondence with Lord Aberdeen: 1801-1807.ff. 4, 5, 7, 102 William Pitt, the youn...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Turkish
Date Range:
1801-1808
Extent:
1 item