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1. Add MS 4432

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ROYAL SOCIETY PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 392). (1) 'Dr [William] Croon's account of the weight of a Carp'; 1663. f. 1. (2) 'Remarks on the Journal of [Thomas] Batts and [Robert] Fallam, in their Discovery of the Western Parts of Virginia in 1671', by John Mitchell, M.D., F.R.S.; aft. 1755. The jour...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1663-1755
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8280

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, letters, treaties, papal instructions and investitures relating to the Papacy, Venice, Turkey, Siena, Tuscany, the Council of Trent, Aragon, Sardinia and Corsica, Sicily, Genoa, Portugal, France, Poland, Spain; circa 1297-1302, 1518-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes (ff. 335-420) a long excerpt from the diary of Paris de Grassis relating to the papacy of Leo X (February 1518 - July 1521). For a complete MS....
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 3-9v Turkey; General: Political Tracts: Venice: Discourse in favour of Venice rel. to the peace with the Turks: after 1572: Ital: Copy. ff. 10-23v Siena, Italy: Gian Giacomo Medici, Marchese di Marignano; called 'Medeghino':...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 15760

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Henricus Martellus Germanus, Insularium illustratum
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This volume is one of only five surviving manuscripts of the Insularium illustratum (Illustrated Book of Islands), a descriptive atlas of island maps, made by Henricus Martellus Germanus (also known as Heinrich Hammer), a German miniaturist and cartographer who was active in Florence between 148...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
c 1490
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1 volume

4. Add MS 19932

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ALBUM of Johann Jacob, Count Königsegg, Baron von Aulendorf, Canon of Strasburg and Cologne, containing autograph inscriptions, with coloured coats of arms, of his friends ; dated at Ingoldstadt, Augsburg, Rome, Bologna, Perugia, and Florence, 1604- 1619. Paper; with paintings. Octavo.
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Johann Jacob Königsegg, Count; Canon of Strassburg and Cologne: Album Amicorum: 1604-1619. Waldpurg family: Autographs and arms: 1604-1619. Perugia, Italy: Autographs of persons at: 1604-1619. Ingolstadt; Bavaria: Autographs of persons at: 1604-1619. Florence, Italy: Autographs of persons at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1604-1619
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 25598

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VOL. I. 1. Antonio Magliabechi to Carlo Dati, enclosing the answer to his request; n.d. Lat. Autograph. ff. 2-9. 2. Copies of letters and papers relating to the Magliabechi library in the Academy at Florence; 1783. Ital. f. 10. 3. Biographical notices of A. Magliabechi. Ital. f. 19. 4. Ori...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 30080

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CALENDAR of saints and festivals, in Latin; including a note of the flood at Florence, 4 Nov. 1333. Entries of additional saints have been made in later hands, including Petronius, Bishop of Bologna, 4 Oct. Vellum; ff. 7. xivth. cent. Small Quarto. Presented by E. H. Thompson, Esq.
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Florence, Italy: Note of the flood in 1333. Calendars: Calendar: Italian use: 14th cent.: Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
14th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 32058, ff 1-4

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Seven cuttings with historiated initials from Italian manuscripts
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ff. 1-4: Seven historiated initials from Italian manuscripts of the 14th century: f. 1r (above): Initial 'I' of God creating the earth above, and God creating Adam below; on the reverse are three 4-line staves with musical notation and three lines of fragmentary text. f. 1r (below): Initial '...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 14th century
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8. Add MS 40077

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"HOSPITALIS titulo Sanctae Mariae noue in urbe Florentina principium, ordo et institutio": copy of the regulations of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova at Florence, founded by Folco dei Portinari in 1288 (not 1278 as in this MS.). Latin. Addressed (in this MS.) by Francesco dei Portinari, papal prothonotary, to Henry VII of England, with prefatory letter and epilogue, from which it appears that the king was contemplating the foundation of a hospital ("amplissimum paras egrotantium domicilium...
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Medicine and Surgery: Regulations of Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova at Florence, 1288, probably prepared for foundation of the Savoy, London.: early 16th cent.: Lat.: Copy. London Hospitals: Regulations of the Hospital of S. Maria Nuova, Florence, sent to Henry VII, for guidance in foundation of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 40079

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TRANSCRIPTS of papers in the Florentine archives relating to a proposed marriage between Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 6 Nov. 1612), and a sister of Cosimo II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 1611-1612. The chief correspondents are the Florentine representatives and emissaries in England and Rome and members of the Tuscan court. The arrangement is roughly chronological. A number of ecclesiastical pronouncements are in Latin, the rest of the papers in Italian. Different extracts from the same d...
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Ottaviano Lotti, Florentine Resident in London and Emissary to Rome: Correspondence with the Tuscan court.: 1611-1612.: Ital.: Copies. Henry Frederick (d, Princes of Wales; 1612): Papers rel. to proposed marriage of, 1611-1612.: 19th cent.: Lat. and Ital.: Copies. Bookplates: Brooke (Sir Thoma...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
19th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 40150

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BREVIARY of the Vallombrosan abbey of San Salvi, Florence (for another breviary from this house see Egerton MS. 2973; a third Vallombrosan breviary is Burney MS. 333). There are considerable variations of arrangement and other differences from the text in Breuiarift sm. ordinem Vallis-Umbrose (Venice, 1493). Contents:- (1) Calendar in red and black. The Deposition (12 July), Canonization (1 Oct.) and Translation (10 Oct.) of St. John Gualbert and the Feast of St. Salvius (10 Sept.) are in ...
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Orders Religious. Vallombrosans: Breviary of San Salvi Abbey, Florence: 15th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Breviary of the Vallom brosan Abbey of San Salvi, Florence: 15th cent. Florence, Italy: Breviary of San Salvi Abbey,: 15th cent: Lat. Bindings ITALIAN: Wooden boards, covered with stamped leath...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1433
Extent:
1 item