Two letters of Filippo Sassetti, traveller, to Piero Vettori, Lisbon, with four letters of Bernardo Canigiani to the same, Madrid. From Phillipps MS 11026. Lot 918 Creation dates: 10 Jan 1580 -9 May 1583
Letter Paolo Mini, Florentine doctor and scholar, to Piero Vettori, Lyons. Wrongly identified as 'Ranuzzi Papers lot 12652. From Phillipps MS 11026. Lot 917 Creation dates: 13 Sept 1583
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...