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301. Add MS 8409

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ANONYMOUS COLLECTION OF LIVES of eminent people and Italian heretics condemned by the Inquisition in Rome; late 17th - early 18th cent. Italian. Copy. The texts provide detailed accounts of the lives, trials and executions of : - (a) art. 1, ff. 3-21, Cardinal Carlo Carafa (1517-1561), his brother Giovanni, Duke of Paliano, the Count of Alife, brother-in-law of Giovanni, and Leonardo di Cardine, Alife's uncle; for other accounts of the Carafas' execution see Add. 8391 (arts. 6-9, ff. 208-236...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: early 18th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Inquisition: Heretics: Lives of eminent people and heretics condemned by the Inquisition in Rome: late 17th - early 18th cent: Ital: Copy. includes: ff. 3-21v Carlo Carafa, Cardinal 1555: Account o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

302. Add MS 8411

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TRACT on papal conclaves; early 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Treatise relating to the rules and proceedings of the conclaves for the election of the pope. The text is divided into 3 books (ff. 6, 67, 190), the third book including accounts of conclaves and subsequent papacies from Innocent VIII (1481-1492) to Clement VII (1523-1534). Title (f. 2) 'Discorsi del conclave / Volume primo'. Proemium (ff. 6-7v) 'Molti facilmente si troveranno li quali non prima havendo inteso il soggetto', inc. (f. 8...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Political Tracts: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Tract on conclaves: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

303. Add MS 8412

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Title:
ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO URBAN VIII, ADDING CLEMENT V AND OMITTING PAUL IV, PREFACED BY A PROCEDURAL MANUAL ON THE CONCLAVE AND FOLLOWED BY A DESCRIPTION OF THE DESIGN AND FURNISHINGS OF THE CONCLAVE; 1305-1740. Italian and Latin. Copies. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown and upper margin of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8368, 8369, 8382, 8391-8396, 8397, 8398, 8399, 8...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: ff. 48-53 Clement V; Pope: Account of conclave: 1305: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 54-62v Nicholas V; Pope: Account of conclave: 1447: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 63-68 Calixtus III; Pope: Account ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

304. Add MS 8413

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ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO GREGORY XIII, ADDING CLEMENT V AND URBAN VI, AND OMITTING PIUS II, MOST FOLLOWED BY THE LIFE OF THE POPE ELECTED; 1305-1572. Italian. Copies. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown and upper margin of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8368, 8369, 8382, 8391-8396, 8397, 8398, 8399, 8412, 8417, 8418, 8419-8425, 8462, 8487, 8515, 8525, 8660, 8706, 8721, 87...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-10 Clement V; Pope: Account of conclave: 1305: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 11-26v Urban VI; Pope: Account of conclave: 1378: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 27-37v Nicholas V; Pope: Account of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

305. Add MS 8414

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ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO INNOCENT IX, ADDING CLEMENT V, URBAN VI, LEO XI, AND URBAN VIII, AND OMITTING PIUS V AND GREGORY XIII; 1305-1623. Italian and Latin. Copies. Contemporary tables of contents (f. 1-1v.); ff. 7v, 23v, 121, 166, 167 contain lists of conclaves omitted from the compilation. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '88' in top left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8367, 8410, 8411, 8415, 8426, 8427, and...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-7 Clement V; Pope: Account of conclave: 1305: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 8-23 Urban VI; Pope: Account of conclave: 1378: Lat: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 24-31 Nicholas V; Pope: Account of concla...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

306. Add MS 8415

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ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM PIUS IV TO CLEMENT VIII AND OF THE REIGNS OF PIUS IV AND GREGORY XIII; 1559-1592. Italian. Copies. 'CXLVII' on spine. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '88' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8367, 8410, 8411, 8414, 8426, 8427, and 8428, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 88 (part). Paper; ff. 354+vi (f. 204 blank). Modern foliation in pencil '1-354' (followed here). Comp...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum on pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-45 Pius IV; Pope: Account of conclave: 1559: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 46-54 Pius IV; Pope: Account of his papacy: 1559-1565: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 55-102v Pius V; Pope: Account of conclave: 1566: Ital: Copy, 17th c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

307. Add MS 8416

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Title:
ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES, JULIUS II TO PAUL III, PAUL IV, PIUS IV, URBAN VIII TO ALEXANDER VII, INNOCENT XI TO CLEMENT XI, WITH PAUL II AND SIXTUS IV, NOT BOUND IN CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE, TOGETHER WITH GENERAL WORKS ON THE CONCLAVE; 1471-1700. Italian and Latin. Copies. Contemporary table of contents 'Tabula Contentorum in hoc libro' (ff. 1-1v). Stamp (f. iii) 'biblioth / H.F. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armor...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboard: 18th cent. includes: ff. 11-13v Sixtus IV; Pope: Account of conclave: 1471: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 14-18v Paul II; Pope: Account of conclave: 1464: Ital: Copy, 17th cent. ff. 19-33 Clement VII; Pope: Account of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

308. Add MS 8417

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Title:
ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM NICHOLAS V TO MARCELLUS II, ADDING URBAN VI, AND THE ANTIPOPES ALEXANDER V AND JOHN XXIII, TOGETHER WITH WORKS ON THE ORGANISATION AND PROCEDURE OF THE CONCLAVE; 1378-1555. Italian and Latin. Copies, woodcut portraits. Eight accounts (Nicholas V, Pius II, Paul II, Alexander VI, Julius II, Leo X, Paul III and Julius III) are prefaced by full-page woodcut portraits of the relevant pope (ff. 92v, 118v, 142v, 247v, 303v, 323v, 399v, 422v). Armorial bookplate of Frederi...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-31 Domenico Ranaldi, 'Custode' of Vatican Library: De Electione Romani Pontificis . . . (on conclaves): bef. 1594: La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

309. Add MS 8418

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Title:
ACCOUNTS AND DIARIES OF CONCLAVES FROM MARCELLUS II TO INNOCENT IX, OMITTING PAUL IV; 1555-1591. Italian and Latin. Copies, woodcut portraits. Three full-page woodcut portraits (ff. 84v, 161v, 231v, of Sixtus V, Pius IV, and Gregory XIV) illustrate the accounts of the respective conclaves. The name 'Domenico Bianchi' is written in ink in top left corner of f. 350 (the first leaf of art. 12). Armorial bookplate of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark L/18/E (front pastedown)....
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboard: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-55 Pius V; Pope: Two accounts of conclave: 1566: Ital: Copies, 17th cent. ff. 56-79v Gregory XIII; Pope: Accounts of c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

310. Add MS 8419

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Title:
ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM INNOCENT IX TO GREGORY XV WITH OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO EVENTS UNDER THE PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY XV; 1591-1623. Italian and Latin. Copies, woodcut portrait. One full-page woodcut portrait of Innocent IX (f. 1v) is prefaced to the account of the conclave which elected him. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8368, 8369, 8382, 8391-8396...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: f. 1v Innocent IX; Pope: Art. Portraits: Woodcut portrait of Pope Innocent IX: 17th cent: Lat: Printed. ff. 2-26v Innocent IX; Pope: Two accounts of conclave: 1591: Ital: Copies, 17th cent. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

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