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621. Add MS 8772

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DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI RELATING TO THE PEACE CONGRESS OF COLOGNE; 1636-1639. Italian. Copies. Compilation relating to the diplomatic mission of the legatus a latere Cardinal Marzio Ginetti. Ginetti was appointed in 1635 by Urban VIII to preside over a peace congress between France, Spain and Germany in Cologne, but left Rome only in 1636. He remained in Cologne until 1640, when after four years of unsuccessful attempts to organise the congress the Pope decided to cancel his mi...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/E): bef. 1828. Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to his peace mission to Cologne: 1636-1641: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Cologne, Germany: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1636-1639
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1 item

622. Add MS 8773

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MATTEI LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to Cardinal Francesco Barberini and others from Gaspare Mattei, Bishop of Athens, as papal nuncio to Emperor Ferdinand II (8 Aug. 1639 - 2 Apr. 1644); 1640. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Register copies. Recipients include Cardinal Marzio Ginetti, papal legate to Cologne, and his substitute Francesco Maria Macchiavelli, Patriarch of Constantinople, the papal nuncios Ranuccio Scotti at Paris, Fabio Chigi at Cologne, Carlo Rossetti at London, Francesco...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Letter-book of G. Mattei as papal nuncio: 1640: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Mattei letter-book rel. to: 1640: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Dispatches from G. Matte...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1640
Extent:
1 item

623. Add MS 8774

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CHIGI LETTER-BOOK: Register of correspondence of Fabio Chigi, Bishop of Nardò and future Pope Alexander VII, when envoy extraordinary of Pope Innocent X to the conference of Münster (1644 - 1651); 1644-1650. Italian, Latin, and French. Register copies, partly in cipher. Correspondents include the papal nuncios Giulio Rospigliosi at Madrid and Niccolò Guidi del Bagno at Paris (passim), Alvise Contarini, the former Venetian Ambassador Extraordinary at the Congress of Münster (ff. 591-665 passi...
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Treaties: Chigi Letter-book rel. to: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr.: Copies. Innocent X; Pope: Letter-book of F. Chigi as papal nuncio: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr: Copies. Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Chigi Letter-book rel. to: 1644-1650: Ital., Lat., and Fr: Copies. Giulio Rospigli...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1644-1650
Extent:
1 item

624. Add MS 8775

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FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters and dispatches to and from Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 - 3 Nov. 1674); 1672-1675. Italian, French, and Greek. Partly copies, mostly in cipher. Correspondents include Lorenzo Magalotti, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, possibly Girolamo Alberti, the Venetian correspondent at London, and perhaps Opizio Pallavicini, nuncio at Cologne, Cardinal Paluzzo Altieri, nephew and prime minister of Pope Cleme...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Ottavio Falconieri, Abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole; Internuncio at Brussels: Letter-books: 1672-1676: Ital., Fr., and Gr. includes: ff. 8, 59 (frag.) Conte Lorenzo Magalotti, Counsellor to Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany: Letters to O. Falconie...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1672-1675
Extent:
1 item

625. Add MS 8776

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FALCONIERI LETTER-BOOK: Letters to Ottavio Falconieri, abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole, as papal internuncio at Brussels (Oct. 1672 - 3 Nov. 1674); 1673-1676. Italian, and French. Mostly autograph and in cipher. The collection includes letters sent to Falconieri after his return to Rome and sudden death on 15 Nov. 1675. The authors of most of the letters are an anonymous correspondent at London and the Florentine diplomat and man of letters Lorenzo Magalotti (art. 2). The anonymous correspond...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Ottavio Falconieri, Abbot of St. Jerome in Fiesole; Internuncio at Brussels: Letter-books: 1672-1676: Ital., Fr., and Gr. includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770. ff. 20-54v, 56-231 Conte Lorenzo Magalotti, Couns...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, and Italian
Date Range:
1673-1676
Extent:
1 item

626. Add MS 8777

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TOMMASO AREZZO: Relazione of the Catholic Church in Russia; 1806-1807. Italian, French and Latin. Copy. Tommaso Arezzo, titular Archbishop of Seleucia, was named nuncio to Russia in 1802, when diplomatic relations between Pope Pius VII and Emperor Alexander I were established. In St. Petersburg Arezzo tried unsuccessfully to resolve the disagreements on matters of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. In June 1804 the so-called Vernègues affair caused a definitive rupture in the relations between the...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Alexander I of Russia: Pius VII; Pope: Tommaso Arezzo, Archbishop of Seleucia; Cardinal 1816: Church of Russia: Relazione of Catholic Church in Russia by Tommaso Arezzo: 1806-1807: Ital, Fr., and Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1806-1807
Extent:
1 item

627. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1574
Extent:
1 item

628. Add MS 8779

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'Giovanni Micaele / de Wanslebiis / Relazione / dello stato moderno del Regno di Egitto / al / Serenissimo Gran Duca di Toscana / Ferdinando II di Medices / Signore e Protettore suo osservandissimo'; circa 1668. German, Arabic, Italian, and Latin. Inc. (f. 1) 'Pars 1. / Von Naturlichen dingen / ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1668
Extent:
1 item

629. Add MS 8779-8780

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JOHANN MICHAEL WANSLEBEN: Relazione of Egypt; circa 1668
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German, Arabic, Italian, and Latin. Autographs. The relazione is the result of a two-year journey to Egypt undertaken in 1663-1665 by the Dominican friar, traveller and orientalist Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679). The text is dedicated to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II de' Medici. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Arabic, English, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
2 items

630. Add MS 8780

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'Relazione / dello stato presente dell'Egitto / Scritta e dedicata / al / Serenissimo Ferdinando II Gran Duca di Toscana / da / Fra Giovanni Michele Vanslebio d'Effordia / Domenicano' (title on a paper slip pasted onto front pastedown); 1668. Italian transl. Inc. (f. 3) 'Parte Ia. / Delle cose N...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1668
Extent:
1 item

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