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21. 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

22. Add MS 8325

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, Sweden, Tunisia, Alsace, Venice, Spain, and Monaco; circa 1641-1671. Italian, French and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 7) the account of the trial of the Milanese doctor and alchemist Francesco Giuseppe Borri (1627-1695) written by the Italian historian Gregorio Leti (1630-1701), published as Sommario del Processo di Gioseppe Francesco Borri Milanese condannato e sentetiato dal Tribunale del S. Officio per Eretico... pub...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-19v Christina of Sweden: Giovanni Rinaldo Monaldeschi, Esquire of Queen Christina of Sweden: Relazione and treatise rel. to the murder of G. R. Monaldeschi by order of Qu. Christina of Sweden: circa 1657: Ital: Copies. ff. 20-34 Ah...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1641-1671
Extent:
1 item

23. 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

24. Add MS 8333

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other political papers relating to Spain, Naples, Liguria, Rome, France and the Empire; circa 1646-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. Among other things the collection contains (arts. 8-15) relazioni and a satirical tract relating to the death of Pope Alexander VII, on 22 May 1667, and the conclave for the election of Clement IX, elected on 20 June 1667. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Ink drawing in the lower margin of f. 2. Old signature '...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Alexander VII; Pope: Clement IX; Pope: Political accounts and satirical papers rel. to: 1667: Ital.: Copies. includes: ff. 2-23v Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Three discourses rel. to the war against the Turks addressed to: circa 1529: Lat: Copi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1646-1667
Extent:
1 item

25. Add MS 8345

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political treatises relating to Rome, France, Spain, and Portugal; circa 1631-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) satirical tract (art. 1) against Alexander VII; - (b) relazioni and political treatises (arts. 2-6, 10-11) relating to the dispute between France and the Papacy that arose after the attack on the French Ambassador at Rome, Charles de Blanchefort, Duc de Créqui, by the papal Corsican Guards on 20 Aug. 1662; - (c) speec...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political tracts rel. to France, Spain, Portugal and the Papal Court: circa 1631-1667: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. Louis XIV of France: Alexander VII; Pope: Tracts rel. to: circa 1631-1667: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 29-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1631-1667
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 8349

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to the Patriarchate of Aquileia; circa 1445-1629. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The collection relates to the dispute between the Emperor Ferdinand II, the Republic of Venice and Pope Urban VIII over the appointment of the Patriarch of Aquileia after the death of Patriarch Agostino Gradenigo in 1629. In the end another Venetian prelate, Marco Gradenigo, was elected, against the wishes of Ferdinand II who wante...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Venice: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Holy Roman Empire: Aquileia, Italy: Papers rel. to the Patriarchate of Aquileia: 1445-1629: Lat. and Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 8452-8460

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DIARIES OF PAOLO ALALEONA; 1586-1637. Latin. Copies. Alaleona (1585-1638) was Master of Ceremonies at the Papal Court and private cameriere to Paul V, and helped compile the Ceremonial of the Conclaves issued by Gregory XV in 1622. His nine-volume diary covering the papacies from Pope Sixtus V to Pope Urban VIII remained unpublished: information on Alaleona and a list of MSS. copies of his diaries in Roman libraries in Bibliografia Romana. Notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori rom...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Paolo Alaleona, Papal Master of Ceremonies: Diaries and Memoranda: Diaries of Paolo Alaleona: 1586-1637: Lat: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
9 items

28. Add MS 8461

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SILVIO DE PAULIS: Inventory of the archive of the Castel Sant'Angelo; 1610. Latin. The Archive at Castel Sant'Angelo or Archivum Arcis was established during the papacy of Clement VIII (1592-1605), even though the papal collection of privileges, royal letters, imperial decrees, deeds, incoming letters to the Curia, and the like had been placed in the castle since the time of Sixtus IV (1471-1484). The archive remained in the castle until it was hastily transferred to the Vatican Palace and i...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Paul V; Pope: Silvio de Paulis, Prefect of the Archive of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome: Catalogue of the Archive of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome , offered to Paul V by Silvio de Paulis: 1610: Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item

29. Add MS 8466

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EXCERPTS FROM THE RULES of the Apostolic Chancery; circa 1611 (see f. 67). Latin. Copy. The so-called Regulae Cancellariae Apostolicae were renewed upon the election of a new pope until 1730, when the 72 rules that are now in use were established (cf. Del Re, La Curia romana, pp. 285-286). The present MS. contains excerpts from the text of rules in force during the papacy of Paul V (1605-1621). Title (f. 1) 'Regula [sic] Cancellariae', inc. 'Regulae Cancellariae expirant per mortem Pontifici...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: early 17th cent. Paul V; Pope: Excerpts from the Rules of the Apostolic Chancery: circa 1611: Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1611
Extent:
1 item

30. Add MS 8484

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NICOLA SIGNORILI: 'Descriptio urbis Romae eiusque excellentiae'; circa 1425. Latin. Copy, 18th cent. Relazione of Rome offered to Pope Martin V (1417-1431) by Nicola Signorili, secretary to the Magistrate of Rome. Other MSS. copies in Archivio Colonna, MS. II A.50; Vatican City, Vatican Library, MSS. Vat. Lat. 3536 and 6781, Chigi MSS. I.V.168 (ff. 1v-19v) and I.VI.204 (ff. 1-31); Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS. Brancacciano I, C, 35; a MS. in the Biblioteca Bruti and one in the Vatican Ci...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Nicola Signorili, of Rome; Secretary to the Magistrate of Rome: Martin V; Pope: Relazione of Rome, its churches and reliquaries, offered to Martin V by Nicola Signorili: circa 1425: Lat: Copy, 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item