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181. Add MS 8289

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A COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts mostly relating to the history of the Church; circa 1602-1704. Italian, Latin and Greek. Partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). Stamp (f. i) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. 'D.V.2' and 'LXXXI' in pencil on f. i. '290' in pencil at center of f. i. Purchased, together with Add. 8344, 8358, 8433, 8688, 8788, and possibly 8416, from R. ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Church of Rome: Miscellaneous tracts mostly rel. to the history of the Church: 17th-18th cent: Ital, Lat and Gr. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1602-1704
Extent:
1 item

182. Add MS 8290

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political tracts, letters, relazioni, and conclave accounts relating to Portugal, Turkey, the Papacy, France, the German Empire, Venice, Persia, Poland, and Tunisia; circa 1544-1576. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 10, ff. 334v-375v) a letter-book of Cardinal Angelo Niccolini, Archbishop of Pisa, relating to his promotion to cardinal in 1563. Table of contents (ff. 477-477v), added later. Old shelfmarks '285' in ink on outer margin of front pastedown, abov...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-63 Sebastian of Portugal: Relazione, letter, and tracts rel. to: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 10-63 Political Tracts: On Portugal: circa 1574: Ital: Copies. ff. 63-67v Gregory XIII; Pope: Account of conclave: 1572: Ital: Copy. ff....
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1544-1576
Extent:
1 item

183. Add MS 8291

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COLLECTION of historical, religious and moral tracts, partly relating to Jansenism and the history of heresy in the Eastern Churches, with lists of Roman Emperors and other rulers, and a collection of inscriptions on Roman imperial coins; circa 1628-1690. Latin and Italian. Copies. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '155' in pencil in upper left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8292 (part), 8502, 8789, 8801, 8802, and 8804, from R...
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includes: ff. 1-101 Jansenists: Tracts rel. to: late 17th - early 18th cent.: Lat: Copies. ff. 1-135v Heretics: Tracts rel. to: late 17th - early 18th cent.: Lat: Copies. ff. 102-135v Eastern Churches: Tracts rel. to oriental heresies: late 17th - early 18th cent.: Lat: Copies. ff. 136-175 Rome...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1628-1690
Extent:
1 item

184. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1794
Extent:
1 item

185. Add MS 8293

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers; circa 1350-1631. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The collection is separable into two parts. The first part (ff. 3-107v) relates to the Papacy and its relations with Savoy and other Italian states, France, the German Empire, Portugal, Scotland, England, and Spain from Paul III (1534-1549) to Paul V (1605-1621). It contains papal instructions to nuncios and other ambassadors between 1537 (art. 3) and 1616 (art. 1), including instr...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-107v Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Papal instructions: 1537-1616: Ital: Copies. ff. 90-90v Paul III; Pope: James V of Scotland: Latino Giovenale Manetti, of Rome; poet and apostolic secretary: David Beaton, Bishop...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

186. Add MS 8294

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, papal instructions, and political treatises relating to Spain, Sweden, Savoy, France, Ethiopia, Genoa, and Venice, mainly during the papacies of Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati, 1590-1591), Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini, 1592-1605), and Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1605-1621); circa 1330, 1550-1606. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect (art. 6). The MS. includes: - (a) letters (f. 72) of King Philip II of Spain to Abbot and Count Sf...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Clement VIII; Pope: Paul V; Pope: Gregory XIV; Pope: Miscellaneous collection partly rel. to his papacy: circa 1555-1606: Ital., Lat. and Span: Copies. includes: ff. 38-42, 60-61v Political Tracts: On diplomacy, extracts: early 17th cent.: Ital: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

187. Add MS 8295

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COLLECTION mainly relating to the papacy of Paul IV, Giovanni Pietro Carafa; circa 1555-1680. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Other collections relating to the Pope Paul IV and the Carafa family in Add. 8262 (ff. 203-221v, 599-603v), 8270 (ff. 3-128), 8271, 8296, 16397, and 16445. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tomo 42' and '(486)' in pencil in a note on f. i (lower margin): identifiable with Mattei MS. 486 (vol. 42 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Paul IV; Pope: Carafa family; of Naples: Collection rel. to Paul IV and the Carafa family: circa 1555-1679: Ital., and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 2-81 Biography: Paul IV; Pope: Life of Paul IV: aft. 1559: Ital. and Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

188. Add MS 8296

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COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, letters, and other papers mainly relating to the negotiations of Cardinal Carlo Carafa and his brother Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano, during the papacy of Paul IV [Giovanni Pietro Carafa]; circa 1555-1619. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes: - (a) art. 1, a chronicle of European events 1558-1559; - (b) art. 5, a bull of Paul IV relating to the assignment of the Duchy of Paliano to his nephew Giovanni Carafa; - (c) art. 7 (ff. 83-2...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Philip II of Spain: Henry II of France: Collection rel. to negotiations with Paul IV: circa 1555-1559: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Paul IV; Pope: Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano: Carlo Carafa, Cardinal 1555: Collections rel. to: circa 1555-1562: Ital....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

189. Add MS 8297

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, orations, discourses, notes and accounts relating to the German Empire, Rome, Ferrara, Austria, Hungary, Flanders, Florence, and Spain; circa 1493-1620. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also includes (art. 11, ff. 207-213v), the text of dedication by Vincenzo Stampa relating to a table in Florentine mosaic or pietra dura offered in 1587 to King Philip II of Spain by Cardinal Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pope Pius V and commonly known ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-110 Ferdinand I; Emperor of Germany: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Papers rel. to the resignation of Charles V in favour of Ferdinand I: circa 1558: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. ff. 111-128v Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Pau...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

190. Add MS 8298

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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...
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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

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