reel 4: Maestro Francesco, 'Li Rimedie di corpi umani', written in North Italy. Phillipps MS 12915. Ranuzzi Papers, 'Maestro Francesco' Creation dates: Third quarter of 15th century
reel 5: English History. Transcripts of Italian and English documents relating to England. Phillipps MS 12652. Ranuzzi papers, 'English History' Creation dates: 16th - 17th centuries
Portolano de Venezia, or navigator's guide. 56 folios (1-58, missing 6 and 7). Article 2 corresponds fairly closely with Vat cod lat chart 5300. The other items differ from the printed editions and MSS in Konrad Kretschmer, Die italienischen Portolane des Mittelalters, 1909. Formerly owned by Ab...
Letter of Benvenuto Cellini to Vincenzo Borghini, Prior of the Ospedale degli Innocenti of Florence and Lieutenant of the Academy of Design, concerning his withdrawal from the decoration of Michelangelo's catafalque. From the Alfred Morrison collection. Sotheby's sale catalogue, 3-4 Mar 1969, lo...
Reel 3. Item 1144: Summario della Generale Storia delle Indie Occidentali, Florence (1546). Phillipps MS 11721; item 1148: Letter of George Washington to the Rev Jonathan Boucher (19 August 1768) Creation dates: 1546 - 1768
Papers of Cyril Lucaris, Patriarch of Alexandria (1602-1631) and Constantinople (1621-1638). Formerly Phillipps MS 7844. Sotheby's, 15 June 1970, lot 1226 Creation dates: 1602 - 1638
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