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1. Add MS 8294

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, papal instructions, and political treatises relating to Spain, Sweden, Savoy, France, Ethiopia, Genoa, and Venice, mainly during the papacies of Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati, 1590-1591), Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldobrandini, 1592-1605), and Paul V (Camillo Borghese, 1605-1621); circa 1330, 1550-1606. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect (art. 6). The MS. includes: - (a) letters (f. 72) of King Philip II of Spain to Abbot and Count Sf...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Clement VIII; Pope: Paul V; Pope: Gregory XIV; Pope: Miscellaneous collection partly rel. to his papacy: circa 1555-1606: Ital., Lat. and Span: Copies. includes: ff. 38-42, 60-61v Political Tracts: On diplomacy, extracts: early 17th cent.: Ital: ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8308

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, papers and letters relating to Genoa and the Netherlands; circa 1547-1625. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly imperfect. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LIV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '498' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 498 (vol. 54 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-51v Republic of Genoa: Tract and other papers rel. to: circa 1575-1598: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 20-23v Republic of Genoa: Giovanni Girolamo Morone, Bishop of Modena; Cardinal 1542: Draft of agreement to end civil war in Genoa by...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1547-1625
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8544

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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...
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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: ...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1634?
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1 item

4. Add MS 8565

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STATUTES OF CORVARA: a collection of the statutes of Corvara, near La Spezia, with related confirmations and judgements by the commune of Genoa; after 1501. Latin. Statutes passed by the councillors of Corvara and presented to Johannes Lemengre [Jean Le Meingre], called Buciquant [Boucicaut], marshall of France and governor of Genoa (d. 1421), inc. (f. 3) '[I]nfrascripta Sunt Capitula Comunis Terre et Castri Corvarie', with an an extract (ff. 3-20) from the public acts of the chancery of Gen...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Blind-tooled and stamped leather with metal fittings: aft. 1501. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/C): early 19th cent. Trade and Commerce: Republic of Genoa: Legal material: Corvara, La Spezia: Statutes of Corvara confirmed by the commune of Genoa: aft. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
after 1501
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 15856

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COPIES of various diplomatic instruments in the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., in the writing, for the most part, of John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward Nicholas, Secretary of State, and apparently intended for the use of the latter, as a Book of Precedents. The contents are :- " Inscriptions des lettres aux Princes de l'Empire," f 1 ;-" Inscriptiones literarum usitatæ in Anglia," with the subscriptions used by Charles I., f 2; -"De modo scribendi epistolas apud Italos," f 5;-Credential...
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Forms: Of Commissions. John Nicholas, son of Sir Edward: Wrote the greater part of Add. Ms. Sir Christopher Hatton, Lord Hatton of Kirby: Passes to him: 1647, 1648. Sir William Curtius: Letters to Sir R. Browne: 1643-1647, 1670. History of England: Diplomatic Instruments: temp. Car. 1. Car. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 20425

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LETTERS of G[iulio], Card. Alberoni [Prime Minister of the King of Spain] to Card. Gualterio; Madrid, etc., 30 July, 1717- 1 March, 1721. Ital. and French. Holograph, or signed. The following papers are included 1. Copy of letter of Card. Alberoni to Card. Paulucci, the Papal Secretary of State,...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
30 Jul 1717-1 Mar 1721
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 22037

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LETTERS to the Abbé Jacques Sirmond, confessor of Louis XIII., 1605-1651, from Albertus de Albertis; Milan, 8 Nov. 1645. Lat. f. 2. Terenzio Alciati; Rome, 26 Aug. 1646. Ital. f. 4. Baldassirre Antidei; Rome, 30 July, 1614. Ital. f. 5. Stephanus Bauny; 2 Nov. 1624. Lat. f. 7. Jean Besson; 16 Jan. 1647. Fr. f. 8. Gilles Bouchier; Tournay, 17 Apr. 1651, 20 Dec. 1646. Fr. ff. 10, 11. François de Cossé [son of the Duc de Brissac, Grand-pannetier de France]; Pouencé [in Anjou], 20 Sept. 1645. Fr....
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Jacques Sirmond, Abbé, Confessor to Louis XIII: Letters addressed to: 1605-1651.: Lat., Ital., Fr., and Gr. includes: f. 2 Albert de Albertis: Letter to Abbé Sirmond: 1645.: Lat. f. 4 Terenzio Alciati: Letter to Abbé Sirmond: 1646.: Ital. f. 5 Baldassarre Antidei: Letter to Abbé Sirmond: 1614....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
French, Greek, Modern, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1544-1651
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 24214

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VOL. II. 1. Maximilian Sfortia, Duke of Milan, to [Margaret of Savoy] Archduchess of Austria, etc. ; Malines 10 Oct. 1511. Fr. with seal, f. 1. 2. Juliano de'Medici, afterwards Clement VII.; Rome, 23 Apr. 1514. Signed; with seal, f. 2. 3. Leo X. [Giovanni de' Medici] to the Doge and Ancients...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
10 Oct 1511-2 Aug 1793
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 26784

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MISCELLANEOUS treatises, letters, poemis, etc. Lat. and Ital. 1. I Trionfi del Petrarcha. Imperfect, and some parts misplaced. f. 2. 2. "Epistola Beati Bernardi de cura et modo rei familiaris gubernande," f. 26. 3. "Oratio ad indcendum stomacum de mulieribus;" attributed to Leonardo Justiniani, f. 28 b. 4. Eugenii papæ iv epistolæ,-ad Humfredum, ducem Gloucestriæ, de concilio Ferrariensi; [Feb. 1438], f. 30 b;-ad Universitatem Parisiensem de concilio Basiliensi; Florentiæ, 1 Oct. s.a...
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includes: ff. 2-25 Francesco Petrarca, poet: I Trionfi: 15th cent.: Imperf. ff. 26-28 Saint Bernard,; Abbot of Clairvaux: De cura rei familiaris: 15th cent. ff. 28, b-30 Leonardo Giustiniani: Oratio ad inducendum stomachum de mulieribus: 15th cent. f. 30 b Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of Gloucest...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 26869

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History of Genoa by Bartolomeo Senarega; 1488-1514. Lat. Paper; xviith cent. From the library, of Cardinal Gentili. Folio. Bartoloméo Senarega: History of Genoa: 17th cent.: Lat. Republic of Genoa: B. Senaregæ historia: 17th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item