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Language Latin Name Gustavus Adolphus II, King of Sweden Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8304

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Add MS 8304
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, and discourses relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the League of Tuscany, Venice, Modena and Parma during the war of Castro, Ferrara, France, the Netherlands, and the Congress of Cologne; circa 1536-1672. Italian and Latin. Copies, mid 17th cent. The MS. includes (art. 17, ff. 264-279v) three excerpts from the Storia d'Italia by the Florentine historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), relating to the rights of the Apostolic See over te...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/21/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 47-54v Ceremonials: Innocent X; Pope: Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina; Prefect of Rome: Juan de Velasco de la Cueva, Count of Siruela: Federico Savelli, Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 34324

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COLLECTION of political and other papers made by Sir Julius Cæsar, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Master of the Rolls, etc., consisting of transcripts of state-papers, and various political and legal notes, together with a few private letters; 1524-1633. Described as No. 84 in Cæsar's Catalogue of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 38597

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Add MS 38597
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LETTER-BOOK contaning,, drafts of letters, official and private, of Thomas Read [Reid, Ithaedus], Latin Secretary to James I, covering the period 1619-1623 ; with a few common-places. Autograph, except for f. 109. The official correspondence, which forms the bulk of the volume, comprises drafts, chiefly in Latin, of letters from James I to foreign sovereigns, etc., dealing, among other matters, with the sending of English levies to Poland; the Palatinate War and the special embassy of Sir Ed...
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James I of England: State letter of, in letterbook of his Latin Sec., T. Read: 1619-1623.: Drafts. Philip IV of Spain: Letters to, from James I: 1620, 1621.: Lat.: Drafts. includes: f. 1 Christian IV of Denmark: Letter to the Queen Mother, Sophia, from James 1: 1619.: Lat.: Draft. f. 1 b Fred...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1623
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38669

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COPIES of letters (Latin and French) from Charles I to foreign potentates, etc. in the autograph of George Rudolph Weckherlin, Secretary for Foreign Tongues. The letters, dating from 1627-1635, are addressed to the following : City of Hamburg. ff. 1, 9 b, 17 b. King of Denmark. ff. 1b, 2, 3, 4 b, 5, 8, 9, 10b, 36. City of Lubeck. ff. 2b, 17 b. G. Cornaro, Doge of Venice. f. 3. Grand Duke of Tuscany. ff.3b, 25, 31. City of Berne. f. 3 b. City of Zurich. f. 4. City of Basle. f. 4. Gustavus Ado...
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Charles I of England: Letters to foreign potentates, etc.: 1627-1635.: Lat. and Fr.: Copies. Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, Secretary for Foreign Tongues to Charles I: Copies of letters from Charles I, etc.in his hand. Saxony, Electors of. John George I: Letter to his son from Charles I: 1632.: Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 48062

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Add MS 48062
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PAPERS RELATING TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS, etc.; 16th-17th centt. Some Latin, French and Italian. Partly copies. 1. ff. 4-43b. Tabular analysis of the state of Europe, showing military forces, religious and political affiliations, etc., with detailed accounts of the Italian states, Transylvania, the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 72426

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Add MS 72426
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Diplomatic correspondence, primarily English, 1614-1636
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This is a file of the Trumbull papers, which came to the family through Georg Rudolph Weckherlin (1584-1653), government official and poet. Wekherlin came to England with experience of government in Württemberg and active support for Frederick V, Elector Palatine and his wife Elizabeth. He was c...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Swedish
Date Range:
24 Mar 1614-26 May 1636
Extent:
1 file

7. Harley MS 6988

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Harley MS 6988
Title:
Royal letters and warrants, 1625-1655
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Royal letters and warrants from the reign of King Charles I and the Interregnum, from 1625 to 1655. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from King Charles I to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Concerning the Queen’s attendants. Hampton Court, 20 November 1625. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from King Charles I to George ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1625-1655
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 7004

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Harley MS 7004
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Miscellaneous papers and correspondence, c. 1532-1687, primarily of Scottish, Anglo-Scottish, Irish and Welsh matters
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This is a miscellaneous collection. It includes some items which relate largely or wholly to England, such as the Elizabethan papers on harquebusiers and trained bands (ff. 175r-176v, 177r-179r). There are also outlying documents either side of the heart of the collection in the late 16th- and e...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Latin, and Scots
Date Range:
1532-1687
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 7007

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Harley MS 7007
Title:
Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1601-1610
Scope & Content:
Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 1 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from George Paul, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, to Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford. Cambridge, 1 July 1713. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from George P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1601-1610
Extent:
1 volume.

10. Harley MS 7008

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Harley MS 7008
Title:
Correspondence of Prince Henry, 1611-1612
Scope & Content:
Letters, state warrants and correspondence of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1594–1612). Volume 2 of Harley MSS 7007-7009. ff. 1r-2v: Letter from Wilhelm Kettler, Duke of Courland, to Prince Henry. Goldinga, 1 January 1611. Latin. ff. 3r-4v: Letter from François de Lorraine, Duke of Vaudemo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1611-1612
Extent:
1 volume