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Language Latin Place Avignon, France Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8302

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Add MS 8302
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, and letters mainly relating to the Council of Trent and the wars of religion in France; circa 1560-1570. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) relazione (art. 1) of Switzerland, 1560; - (b) relazione (art. 2) of Rome, before 1562; - (c) relazione (art. 15) of France, 1561; - (d) dispatches (art. 17) from France of the papal nuncio Prospero Publicola Santacroce, 1562-1563; - (e) relation (art. 18) of the death of F...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Council of Trent: Letters and tracts rel. to: 1560-1563: Ital: Copies. Philip II of Spain: France General: Pius IV; Pope: Emanuel Philibert; Duke of Savoy: Charles IX of France; Catherine de Medici: Diplomatic letters rel. to: 1560: Span. and Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1560-1570
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 37848

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Add MS 37848
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Scope & Content:
Vol. VII. 1781-1793. William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Correspondence with Sir J. C. Hippisley: 1781-1810. includes: ff. 9-48 James Coutts: Evidences relating to the will of: 1781.ff. 15, 22, 42 Charles Congalton: Letters to J. C. Hippisley: 1780.f. 19 Agnes Cougalton, wife of C...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1781-1793
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 37849

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Add MS 37849
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Scope & Content:
Vol. VIII. 1794- 1810, and undated. William Windham, Secretary of State, etc: Correspondence with Sir J. C. Hippisley: 1781-1810. includes: f. 3 Henry Dundas, 1st Viscount Melville: Correspondence with J. C. Hippisley: 1793, 1794.: Copies.ff. 4, 21, 47, 55 John Udny, Consul at Venice, and...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1794-1810
Extent:
1 item

4. Harley MS 2979

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Harley MS 2979
Title:
Book of Hours, Use of Clermont (Hours of the Virgin), and Use of Brioude (Hours of the Dead)
Scope & Content:
This late 14th-century Book of Hours is especially known for it miniatures by the Workshop of Jean of Toulouse at Avignon. However, the manuscript contains also contains unusual textual items. Amongs these are previously unknown excerpts of the Prologue and Epilogue of Robert of Sorbonne (b. 120...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Middle and Latin
Date Range:
c 1390- c 1400
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 3854

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Harley MS 3854
Title:
The Constitutions of the Council of Avignon, 1596
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 2r-39v: The Constitutions of the Council of Avignon of 1596 called by Francesco Maria Tarugi, the Archbishop of Avignon. Decoration: Rubrics in red.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1596
Extent:
1 volume

6. Harley MS 4920

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Harley MS 4920
Title:
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-150r: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistolae. Decoration: Full border in colours and gold with a coat of arms, supported by two angels, and an historiated initial in colours and gold with a man at a lecturn (f. 1r). Partial border with rinceaux decoration, a quadripartite square in...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1450-1464
Extent:
1 volume