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Language Latin Name Innocent X, Pope Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8324

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) oration (art. 6) on the Sack of Rome by Giovanni Stafileo, Bishop of Sibenik, 1528; - (b) letter (art. 7) from Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France, to Cardinal Louis de Nogaret d'Epernon de La Valette, Archbishop of Toulouse, relating to...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1623-1644: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 113-118 Clement VII; Pope: Johannes Staphyleus, Bishop of Sibenik: Oration on the Sack of Rome by Johannes Staphyleus: 1528: Lat: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1623-1644
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8329

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; - (b) discourse, letter and terms of agreement (arts. 2, 6-7) relating to the reconciliation of the Barberinis with Pope Innocent X, 1646; - (c) speech (art. 3) on Tuscany's neutrality addressed to Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Traiano Ma...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff.2-41 John IV of Portugal: Manifesto: 1647: Ital: Copy. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Innocent X; Pope: Historical papers rel. to his agreement with the Barberinis: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Barberini family; of Rome: Historical pape...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619-1649
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8353

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COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to military and political events during the Thirty Years War, especially in Italy as a theatre of conflict between France and Spain, France during the Fronde, and the island of Corsica under Genoese rule in the early 17th century; 1622-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies, largely printed. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '65' in ink on spine; in top left hand corner of f. 1 the numbers '13', '290', '10...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1v-39v Agriculture: Island of Corsica: Luigi Sesino, priest, from Corsica: Essay on agriculture on Corsica: late 16th cent.: Ital: Copy. ff. 41-122v Island of Corsica: Description of the island: late 16th cent.: Ital: Copy. ff. 137-138v P...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1622-1649
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8371

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
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Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8416

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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

8. Add MS 8712

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MISCELLANEOUS TRACTS AND PAPERS RELATING TO PORTUGAL AND THE PAPACY; 1577-1767. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly certified. Arts. 2-10, 12-14, 16-18 concern the papal refusal to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings between 1640-1669 and the consequent denial by the Pope to receive their ambassadors and approve their nomination of bishops after the secession of the country from Spain. Arts. 19-22 relate to the negotiations for the concordat of 1737 between Pope Clement XII and Ki...
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Portugal General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Miscellaneous tracts and papers rel. to Portugal and the papacy: 1577-1767: Ital. and Lat: Copies, partly signed. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/B): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 1-16 Geography: Geographical ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1577-1767
Extent:
1 item

9. 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

10. Add MS 20846

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LETTERS and Papers, principally political, relating to Spain and Portugal. Original, or early copies. In the following order: 1. "Descripcion de Aragon por la parte que confina con Francia, escrita al Duque de Ixar por su padre el Marques de Alenquer," f. 1. 2. "Rol dos fidalgos que cativarão ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item