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871. 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

872. Add MS 8783

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SOCIETY OF JESUS: Petition to Pope Innocent XII over the Chinese Rites Controversy; 1698. Latin. Copy. The text is related to a dispute that arose in the second half of the 17th century between the Jesuits and other missionaries regarding the observance of ancient Chinese Rites and the use of Chinese names for God (Tien and Shang Di) among the catholic converts of China; see The Chinese Rites Controversy. Its History and Meaning, ed. by D. E. Mungello (Nettetal, 1994). The petition contests ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 1698. Church of China: Liturgies CHURCH CHINESE: Petition of the Jesuits to Innocent XII rel. to: 1698: Lat: Copy. Innocent XII; Pope: Petition from the Jesuits rel. to the Church in China: 1698: Lat: Copy. Society of Jesus: Petition to Innocent II rel. to the C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1698
Extent:
1 item

873. Add MS 8794

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Possibly a draft of the collection catalogue in Add. 8795, as the lay-out of the text in the two MSS. is very similar. Another catalogue of the collection in Add. 8796. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Na...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

874. Add MS 8795

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CATALOGUE OF THE NUMISMATIC AND ART COLLECTIONS OF THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; early 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Copy, late 17th cent. A detailed catalogue of the Medici collections of coins, medals, cameos, bronzes, and marble sculptures. Among other treasures the catalogue includes: - (1) f. 191, cameo with a portrait of Cosimo I de' Medici, his wife Eleonora di Toledo and their children made by Giovanni Antonio de' Rossi (now in Florence, Museo degli Argenti), mentioned ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to the Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of numismatic and art collections belonging to: 1...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item

875. Add MS 8796

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CATALOGUE OF THE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS AND MEDALS OWNED BY THE MEDICI, GRAND DUKES OF TUSCANY; 17th cent. Italian, Latin, and Greek. Other catalogues of the same collection in Add. 8794 and 8795. Neither of these catalogues is mentioned by Giovanna Gaeta Bertelà in 'Le fonti d'archivio per il medagliere mediceo', Appendix to J. G. Pollard, Italian Renaissance Medals in the Museo Nazionale of Bargello (Florence, 1984), pp. xlv-xlvii. Title (f. 1) 'Liber continens nummos antiquos Romanos...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Tuscany; Grand Dukes of: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to: 17th cent: Ital., Lat., and Gr. Antiquities: Medici family: Art. Catalogues: Catalogue of the numismatic collection belonging to Grand Dukes of Tuscany: 17th cent.: Ital., La...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

876. Add MS 8797

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VINCENZO STAMPA: Alexandrinae Mensae Descriptio; circa 1587. Latin. Copy. Text of dedication of a magnificent table in Florentine mosaic or pietra dura offered in 1587 to King Philip II of Spain by Cardinal Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pope Pius V and commonly known as Cardinal Alessandrino. The table is now in the collections of the Museo Nacional del Prado in Madrid; cf. A. González-Palacios, Las colecciones reales españolas de Mosaicos y Piedras Duras, exhibition catalogue (27 June – 26 Sep...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: circa 1587. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Michele Bonelli, Dominican Friar; Cardinal 1566; called Alessandrino: Alexandrinae Mensae Descriptio by V. Stampa: circa 1587: Lat: Copy. Philip II of Spain: Alexandrinae Mensae Descriptio ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1587
Extent:
1 item

877. Add MS 8798

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GIUSEPPE SIMONE ASSEMANI: Commentary on the Tavole Capponiane; circa 1743. Greek, and Latin. Copy. Commentary by the orientalist and later Prefect of the Vatican Library Giuseppe Simone Assemani (1687-1768) on the Calendar of the Greek Church or Menologium as represented in the so-called Tavole Capponiane, five 17th-century panel paintings now in the Vatican collections. The panels were then believed to be of great antiquity (according to Don Roberto Strano of the Acireale Cathedral, they ha...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Art. Miscellaneous: Liturgies GREEK: Liturgies CHURCH SLAVONIC: Joseph Simon Assemani, Orientalist and Librarian to the Vatican: Commentary on the Tavole Capponiane by Joseph Simon Assemani: circa 1743: Gr. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Greek, Modern, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1743
Extent:
1 item

878. Add MS 8799

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COLLECTION OF HUMANISTIC HISTORICAL TEXTS; 3rd quarter of 15th cent. Latin. The collection includes Poggio Bracciolini, De varietate Fortunae, Books 1-3 (art. 1, ff. 2-51v), Matteo Palmieri, Liber de temporibus (art. 2, ff. 52-109), Agostino Dati, Historia Senensis (art. 3, ff. 110-157v), and a letter from Morbassan neber Gessi to Pope Clement VI (art. 4, ff. 158-159). The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, nos. 343-346, p. 24, and briefly described in P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum, iv (19...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Original 15th-cent. wooden boards with late 18th-early 19th cent. decorated paper covers and remains of quarter leather binding, detached: 3rd quarter 15th cent.: Map scale 1:GU. Siena, Italy: History: Chronicles: Collection of humanistic historical texts: 3rd quarter 15th cen...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

879. Add MS 8800

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INDEX TO RERUM IUDICATARUM LIBRI BY ANNE ROBERT; early 17th-cent. Latin. Table of contents for the four books of the Rerum iudicatarum by Anne Robert of Orléans (1559- circa 1618), eminent French jurist and lawyer for the town of Orléans in the Parliament of Paris. Robert's work was an extensive account of decrees and acts by the Parliament and the Grand Conseil of Paris. It was first published with the title Annaei Roberti Rerum iudicatarum libri IV (Paris: Jametio Mettayer & Pierre L'H...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. LAW CIVIL: Index to Rerum iudicatarum Libri of A. Robert: early 17th cent: Lat. Anne Robert, of Orléans; lawyer in Paris Parliament: Index to Rerum iudicatarum Libri of: early 17th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

880. Add MS 8801

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STUDENT NOTES ON COMMENTARIES TO CICERO, VIRGIL, SENECA; 1593-1594. Latin and Italian. Autograph. Possibly imperfect. Notes in Latin and Italian collected during lessons, mostly by Leone Lancerini (see ff. 109, 120, 128), a student attending the first class of Humanities at the Jesuit College in Rome, the so-called Collegio Romano, in 1593-1594. The commentary notes, mostly incomplete, concern excerpts from the Tusculanae disputationes, Book V, De officiis, Book II, Oratio pro lege Manilia, ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: circa 1594. Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the younger; philosopher and statesman: Marcus Tullius Cicero: Publius Virgilius Maro: Student notes to commentaries by F. Sacchini and others rel. to: 1593-1594: Lat. and Ital. Francesco Sacchini, Jesuit historian and professor...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1593-1594
Extent:
1 item

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