Search

Language Latin Place Constantinople, Europe/Asia Digitised Content No

1. Add MS 6417

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 6417
Title:
TRACTS, ETC., CONCERNING THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE: composed in or soon after 1453; late 15th cent. (1453- circa 1480). Origin: Italy. Latin. See Bibliotheca Manuscripta ad S. Marci Venetiarum, Codices MSS. Latini, vi (1873), Cod. 336, where the first two tracts occur. Owned, late 15th-early 16th cent., by Antonio Pizamano, Venetian humanist, Bishop of Feltre 1504-1512, see f. 37v, 'Domini Antonii Pizamani Doctoris'. Purchased according to Departmental records, from whom, and at what date, ...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Brown leather, blind-stamped: late 15th cent. City of Constantinople: Tracts, etc., rel. to the fall of Constantinople: circa 1453: Lat. includes: ff. 1, 25 Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Tracts rel. to the fall of Constantinople: initials: late 15th cent. ff. 1-24...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1453-c 1480
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8253

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8253
Title:
UNIVERSAL HISTORY; 1st half of 15th cent. Italian and Latin. Universal history from the Creation to Octavian, principally biblical and classical history, inc. (f. 3) 'Siendo deo prima cosa perfettissima', expl. (f. 184) 'dalla veritade chatolicha Amen allo onore de Christo'. Followed by: (a) ff. 184v-185, a concordance of the prophets and apostles concerning the articles of the faith; - (b) f. 186, a copy of a bull of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to the Benedictine abbey of San Mercuriale in...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Half brown leather with marbled covers and end-papers: 18th cent. Watermarks: Greek cross: 1st half of 15th cent. includes: ff. 1-184 History: Universal history from Creation to Octavian: 1st half of 15th cent: Ital. f. 186 Forlì, Italy: Bull, 1159, from Frederick Barbarossa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 15th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8544

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8544
Title:
COLLECTION RELATING TO GENOA; 12th cent.-1634. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies put together around 1634 by Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino (circa 1558-1635), Genoese historian and man of letters, co-founder, secretary and later Principal (1590) of the Accademia degli Addormentati in 1587, with the name 'Il timido'. The present composite collection concerns relations between the Republic of Genoa and Savoy, France, Spain, the Emperor, the Pope, Florence and other Italian principalities, th...
Scope & Content:
Republic of Genoa: Collection of letters and papers rel. to: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Giulio di Agostino Pallavicino, of Genoa; historian: Collection rel. to Genoa: 12th cent.-1634: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. includes: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1634?
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8648

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8648
Title:
RELAZIONI RELATING TO CONSTANTINOPLE, ITALY AND THE PAPAL COURT; Account of the Conclave for the Election of Gregory XIV; 18th cent. Italian and Latin. With table of contents (f. 1), a note (f. 43) 'Oh che Cojoneria se credete, che questa Bugiarata risia' in a calligraphic hand, and an ink drawing (f. 44) representing a tree. The MS. is described by Foligno, anno 6, t. xii (1906), pt. i, no. cxvi, pp. 199-200. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/D' (front pastedow...
Scope & Content:
Bindings: Quarter vellum with marbled paper covers: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/D): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 2-24v City of Constantinople: Murad III; Sultan of Turkey: Maffeo Venier, of Venice: Venice: Geography: Relazione of Constantinople by Maffeo Veni...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8778

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8778
Title:
GIOVANNI CARLO SCARAMELLI: Relazione of Poland and other related papers; 1573-1574. Italian and Latin. Copy. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli was Secretary to Girolamo Lippomano, the Venetian ambassador sent to Krakow after the election of Henri de Valois as King of Poland (20 Sept. 1573 – 1575); cf. Lippomano's relazione published in Albèri, s. I, vol. 6 (Florence, 1862), pp. 271-316. After his service in Poland Scaramelli probably followed Lippomano to Naples (1575-1576), France (1576-1579) and C...
Scope & Content:
Bindings POLISH: Blind-roll stamped binding of brown calf: circa 1574. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828. Henry of Valois of Poland: Collected papers and relazione by G. C. Scaramelli rel. to: 1573-1574: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli, of V...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1573-1574
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 22910

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 22910
Title:
Scope & Content:
VOL. I. 1. LETTERS to Dr. Covel from: David Llewelin; Kegworth, 10 May, 1662, f. 19. Laurence Womock [Archdeacon of Suffolk]; 19 Jan. 1668/9 , f. 25. R. Langhorne [of the Inner Temple]; 24 Feb. 1669[70], f. 27. [Sir] Eliab Haruey; London, 17 Mar. 1669[70], f. 29. Robert Huntington [afterwards Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17 Nov 1655-29 Nov 1748
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 34727

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 34727
Title:
Scope & Content:
WEST PAPERS. Vol. I. (ff. 289). Miscellaneous letters, mostly original, of interest historically or otherwise; 1532-1734. The names of all the writers are given in the index. Among them are:- 1. John Fox, the Martyrologist, to Sir [William] Cecil, Sec. of State, asking licence to print his Tab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Gaelic, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1532-1734
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 36737

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 36737
Title:
PASSIONALE, etc., the first five articles being apparently insertions. Latin. 1. Life, etc, of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, viz. :-(a) The Life by Theoderic of Apolda; imperf.at beginning, wanting about ten leaves (see H. Canisius, Thes. Mon.,vol. iv., 1725, p. 129). The divisions often differ from those of the printed text, and lib. viii. cap. 13 is omitted. At the end (f. 17 b) is an additional chapter., " Miracula domini Lodowici lantgrauij." f. 2 ;-(b) Letter to Pope Gregory IX. front Sie...
Scope & Content:
Saints: Lives of Saints: 12-13th centt.: Lat. Bindings GERMAN: Pigskin, blind-tooled, brass clasps and corner piece.-,: 16th cent. Art. Illuminations and Drawings GERMAN: Passionale : coloured initials: 12th-13th centt. includes: f. 2 Theoderic, of Apolda: Vita S. Elizabethæ: 13th cent.: Imp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
12th century-13th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 37397

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 37397
Title:
Scope & Content:
Vol. L. (ff. 300). 9 Mar. (N.S.)-23 Sept. (0.S.), 1725. Horatio Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole of Wolterton: Correspondence with C. Whitworth and Lord Polwarth: 1724, 1725.: Copies. Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle 1715; formerly Pelham; Secretary of State: Correspondence with C. Whitworth ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
1725
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 41600

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 41600
Title:
TREATISE ON THE COMPOTUS, with other astronomical and chronological matter. A list of the contents and of the miniatures in the manuscript is given in F. Saxl and H. Meier, Verzeichnis astrologischer und mythologischer illustrierter HSS., vol. iii (ed. H. Bober), Handschriften in Englischen Bibliotheken, part i, 1953, pp. 82-88. See also Brit. Mus. Quart., iii, 1928-1929, pp. 13-14 and plate vii. (1) 'Incipit liber computi et kalendarii et pertinentium ad illa pulcerimus', beg. ' Quoniam s...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Treatise on the Compotus, etc.: tinted drawings and miniatures of the Zodiac, constellations, planets, etc.: circ. 1454. includes: ff. 1, 5 b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Barozzi family, of Venice: Arms(?): circ. 1454. ff. 1, 5b, 11, 39, 54, 74 b Heraldry: Arms[of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1454
Extent:
1 item