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2301. Add MS 33437

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" LIBRO de Costumi de Suyzeri ": account of Switzerland, in six chapters, followed by twelve chapters on the particular cantons. Italian. The title is inscribed on the cover in another hand. The last date given is 1529; but the historian Gilles Tschudi is referred to, whose work appeared in 1538. Paper; ff. 75. Late xvith cent. Small Quarto.
Scope & Content:
Switzerland: Account of: 16th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
16th century
Extent:
1 item

2302. Add MS 33535

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Title:
Michael William Balfe: 'Il Talismano'. Opera in 3 acts.
Scope & Content:
'The Talisman' [originally named 'The Knight of the Leopard']: English Opera in 3 Acts, in score, composed by M. W. Balfe in, or soon after, 1864, but not performed till 1874. It was then given at Drury Lane as 'Il Talismano,' the Italian translation of the text being made by G. Zaffira, by whom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1864
Extent:
2 volumes (174, 363 folios)

2303. Add MS 33566

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Title:
" RELATIONE del Viaggio di Gerusalemme ": account by Vincenzo Favi of a pilgrimage from Venice to Jerusalem in 1615, going by way of the Mediterranean and Egypt and returning through Damascus, Aleppo, and Alexandretta; with a dedicatory letter to Charles Emanuel, Duke of Savoy. At the end are:- Corso e valuta delle monete." f. 148;-and an Index. f. 151. Illustrated with a map of the route (f. 6), and numerous plans and sketches, in pen and ink, of buildings, etc., many bearing the name of ...
Scope & Content:
Jerusalem: Pilgrimage of V. Favi to, with drawings and plans: 1615.: Ital. Voyages and Travels: From Venice to Egypt, Jerusalem and Syria, by V. Favi: 1615.: Ital. Duchy of Savoy: dedicated to: in 1615. Palestine: Travels in, by V. Favi: 1615.: Ital. Gio. Cales, alias de Kales: Illustrations...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

2304. Add MS 33591-33594

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Title:
Papers and Correspondence of Sir Ralph Sadler, 4 volumes
Scope & Content:
Mary of Scotland: Correspondence and papers of Sir R. Sadleir relating to her reign and captivity: 1554-1585. Sir Ralph Sadleir: Correspondence and papers rel. to negotiations betw. England and Scotland: 1554-1585. Elizabeth I of England: Correspondence of Sir R. Sadleir: 1559-1585. Sir Willi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1554-1585
Extent:
4 volumes of bound letters

2305. Add MS 33594

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Title:
Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, Volume IV (1580-1585)
Scope & Content:
Contents: Volume IV of the Correspondence and Papers of Sir Ralph Sadler, 1580-1585. The majority of the letters in this volume are published in The State Papers and Letters of Sir Ralph Sadler, ed. by Arthur Clifford (1809), II, pp. 331-544. 1. Speech of Sir Ralph Sadler (b. 1533, d. 1603) ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1580-1585
Extent:

A collection of letters bound together

2306. Add MS 33733-33791

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Title:
Grenville Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
form part of the Grenville Library, bequeathed to the British Museum in 1847 by the Rt. Hon. Thomas Grenville. They were transferred to the custody of the Keeper of MSS. in 1890.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
Late 14th century-19th century
Extent:
60 items

2307. Add MS 33753

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Scope & Content:
(Gr. xxviii.) "VITA di Madama Maria Mazzarini, Contestabilessa Colonna ": memoirs of Maria Mancini-Mazarini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin and wife (1661) of Lorenzo Onuphrio Colonna, Duke of Taliacoti, etc., Constable of Naples. Italian. ]Purporting to be composed by herself, with the exception of ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2308. Add MS 33754

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(Gr. xxxii.) "LA VITA d'Innocentio XII.," or " Relacione della Corte di Roma," etc. : an account of the life and character of Pope Innocent XII. and his Cardinals, and of the system of the Papal Court, composed " da un personaggio " for the Marchese Clemente Vitelli, Florentine ambassador at Rom...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

2309. Add MS 33756

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(Gr. li.) " MEMORIALE del viaggio di frate Oderiogo di Friuli ": an Italian version of the travels to Cathay, etc., circ. 1318- 1330, of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone, or Friuli, transcribed by the Cavaliere Alessandro di Mortara from an ancient copy in his own possession. Neither this tran...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

2310. Add MS 33762

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Scope & Content:
(Gr. xvii.) " DESCRITTIONE del Mar Negro, e della Tartaria, par il Dottor Emidio Dortelli d'Ascoli, Lett: Dom: Prefetto del Caffa [sc. Kaffa, in the Crimea], Tartaria, &c., 1634." The Tartary described (f. 21 b) is not the " Gran Tartaria Asiatica," but "Tartaria Sarmata," sc. the Crimea. Pa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1634
Extent:
1 item

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