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1. Add MS 4159

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Title:
State papers of John Thurloe, Secretary of State, 1652-1660, with other state papers, c. 1578-1629 and 1661-1692.
Scope & Content:
Many of the documents here formed part of the original collection of John Thurloe (d. 1668), Secretary to the Council of State and subsequently to the two Cromwells, Lord Protectors. They illuminate both the domestic and international politics of the period, as also the scope of Thurloe's intell...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Cipher, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1578-1700
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 8268

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, letters and historical accounts relating to the Papacy, France, Poland, Russia, Spain, Genoa, Malta, Turkey, Portugal, England, Scotland, the German Empire, Flanders, Naples, and Milan; circa 1538-1585. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes: - (a) papal instructions to Latino Giovenale Manetti relating to France, circa 1538, in Italian (ff. 1-2); - (b) correspondence between the Czar Ivan IV of Russia and King Sigismun...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-2 Paul III; Pope: Francis I of France: Latino Giovenale Manetti, of Rome; poet and apostolic secretary: Henry II of Navarre: Instructions rel. to France to Latino Giovenale Manetti from Paul III: circa 1538: Ital: Copy. ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. 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....
Scope & Content:
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

4. Add MS 8314

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COLLECTION of papers and tracts mostly relating to the Leagues between Venice, Spain, and the Holy See against the Turks and to the battle of Lepanto in 1571, during the papacy of Pius V; 1529, 1538, 1570-1572. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes the relazione (art. 11, ff. 180v-223) by the Venetian Ambassador Michele Suriani, here dated 1570. The MS. is entitled (f. 2) 'Discorsi'. With pen decorations (ff. 1, 14, 17v); table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old s...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Turkey; General: Philip II of Spain: Pius V; Pope: Venice: Paul III; Pope: Miscellaneous papers, letters and tracts rel. to the League against the Turks: 1529-1572: Ital., Lat., Span: Copies. includes: ff. 180v-223 Philip II of Spain: Pius V; Pope: Ve...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8588

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Papers and tracts relating to the League between Venice, Pius V, and Philip II of Spain against the Turks in 1571; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. Another collection relating to the league in Add. 8314. Table of contents by a later hand on f. 1v. The MS. is described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, xi (1906), pt. ii, no. xci, pp. 181-182. Old shelfmark 'XI' in pencil and stamp 'biblioth / h.f. / J77...
Scope & Content:
includes: f. 1 Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1700. ff. 2-122 Treaties: Philip II of Spain: Pius V; Pope: Venice: Papers and tracts rel. to the League between Venice, Pope Pius V, Philip II of Spain against the Turks: 1570-1573: Ital: Copies. ff. 2-5v Gabriele Salvago: Re...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 10262

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A COLLECTION of numerous Original and other Papers, partly manuscript, partly printed, relating chiefly to Turkey, Persia, and Africa; the greater part are in Spanish, a few in Italian or Latin. xvith and xviith cents. Folio. [10,262.]
Scope & Content:
Turkey: Papers relating to Turkey, Persia and Africa.: Span., Ital., Lat. Persia: Papers relating to Turkey, Persia, and Africa.: Span. Ital. Lat. Africa: Papers relating to.: Span. Ital. Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
16th and 17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 11249

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GRIM JOHNSON THORKELINI Collectanea ad historiam Anglicanam spectantia, scil. Declaratio originis Henrici VII. Regis;-Genealogia Philippi et Mariæ. ;-Declaratio eorum quae circa Johannis Sommerfildi susceptum scelus acciderunt in Anglia, anno 1583 ;-Oratio habita ad Carolum, Principem Walliæ, in collegio Vallesolitano Hispaniæ; -Printed Proclamation, prohibiting, the publishing a declaration of the late dissolved Parliament, dat. 16 June, 1626 ;-Epitaphium Caroli 1. ;-Narrative of the execut...
Scope & Content:
John Lewis: Treatise on Seals. Francis Drake: Introduction to the Aspilogia of J. Anstis. Henry VII of England: Declaratio originis Hen. VII. Regis. Philip and Mary I of England: Genealogia Philippi et Mariæ. Elizabeth I of England: Declaratio corum quæ circa Joh. Sommerfildi susceptum scelu...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1583-1735
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 14003

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A COLLECTION Of Papers, in Spanish, relating to the affairs of' Germany in the xviith century, in the following order of subjects:- Diet of Ratisbon, 1630, f. I ;-Conference at Munster, 1647, f. 44 ;- Instructions to the Conde de Peñaranda, ambassador to Germany, 1657, f 60;- Concerning the province of Alsace. 1624, f 61 ;-Reception of Maria Anna. Queen of Hungary, in Vienna, 1631, f 65;-" Difinizion de Alemania, y su descrizion, anó de 1661," f. 74;-" Relazion de Alemania, y de las ca...
Scope & Content:
Switzerland: Memorial of the Swiss, praying for a reduction of the price of salt from Milan [1663?]: Span. German Empire: Papers relating to,: 17th cent.: Span. and Lat. includes: f. 1 Diet of Ratisbon: Paper relating to: 1630.: Span. f. 44 Munster: Account of the Conference at: 1647.: Span. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 34276

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PHILOGICAL and other tracts, in Latin and English:- 1. Short expositions of texts from Scripture. Lat. Imperfect. f. 1. 2. " Nominale sub compendio compilatum, tam de fixis quam de mobilibus : a Latin-English vocabulary of nouns. f. 12. Printed from this MS. by T. Wright, A Volume of Vocabularies, 1857, p. 206. 3. Synonyms in Latin, with English equivalents (cf. Royal MS. 17 C. xvii., f. 28). f. 22 b. 4. Verbale nimis vtile scoloribus " (sic), in Latin-English. f. 25 b. 5. Speculum...
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County of Hereford: Accompts for various manors in: 1554. includes: f. 1 Bible. Commentaries: Expositions of passages from Scripture: 15th cent.: Lat. f. 10 b Richard Hoghson, of ' Cayster in ye cowntye of Yorke.': Name inscribed: 16th cent. ff. 12, 22 b, 25 b Dictionaries: Latin-English vocab...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1560
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 48014

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Title:
Papers relating to the Netherlands, 1531-1591
Scope & Content:
Copies of papers relating to the Netherlands, particularly to the events of 1585-1587 and the two expeditions led by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Possibly gathered as part of Robert Beale and Henry Killigrew’s mission to the Netherlands between June and October 1587. With notes and titles i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1531-1591
Extent:
1 volume