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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
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1 item

2. Add MS 8297

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, orations, discourses, notes and accounts relating to the German Empire, Rome, Ferrara, Austria, Hungary, Flanders, Florence, and Spain; circa 1493-1620. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also includes (art. 11, ff. 207-213v), the text of dedication by Vincenzo Stampa relating to a table in Florentine mosaic or pietra dura offered in 1587 to King Philip II of Spain by Cardinal Michele Bonelli, nephew of Pope Pius V and commonly known ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-110 Ferdinand I; Emperor of Germany: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Papers rel. to the resignation of Charles V in favour of Ferdinand I: circa 1558: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies. ff. 111-128v Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Pau...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

3. Add MS 8298

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historic chronicles, relazioni, papal instructions, letters and discourse relating to the Hanseatic League, Monferrato, Great Britain, Rome, Mantua, Spain, India, Florence, Bohemia, Lucca, Modena, Switzerland, Poland, Prussia, and Portugal; 1391, and circa 1558-1626. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also includes (art. 18, ff. 135-200) a memorial on the reform of the Company of Jesus by the Spanish Father Juan Mariana (1536-1624), circa 1605...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-20 Hanseatic League: Anonymous history and relazione of the: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 25-27 James I of England: Abridged life of: circa 1601: Ital: Copy. ff. 28-36 Richard II of England: Boniface IX; Pope: Bull of Bonifa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

4. Add MS 8300

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COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events in the first half of the 17th century in Italy and elsewhere; 1594-1643. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents (ff. 1-2). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Ownership inscription in ink at top of f. 190 (see art. 21) 'Bonifatii Vanozzij' (Vanozzi is also the author of art. 7). Old signature 'Tom. XLVIII' in upper right corn...
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Bindings: Full vellum: 18th cent. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-48v Gabriel Paleotti, Cardinal; Archbishop of Bologna: Extract on papal consistory: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copy. ff. 49-52 Arnaud de Ossat, Cardinal 1598: Clement VIII; Pope: Saluzzo, Piedmont, I...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1594-1643
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8302

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, and letters mainly relating to the Council of Trent and the wars of religion in France; circa 1560-1570. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) relazione (art. 1) of Switzerland, 1560; - (b) relazione (art. 2) of Rome, before 1562; - (c) relazione (art. 15) of France, 1561; - (d) dispatches (art. 17) from France of the papal nuncio Prospero Publicola Santacroce, 1562-1563; - (e) relation (art. 18) of the death of F...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Council of Trent: Letters and tracts rel. to: 1560-1563: Ital: Copies. Philip II of Spain: France General: Pius IV; Pope: Emanuel Philibert; Duke of Savoy: Charles IX of France; Catherine de Medici: Diplomatic letters rel. to: 1560: Span. and Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1560-1570
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8310

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 9, ff. 73-77) a letter of King James I of England to King Philip IV of Spain and a relazione relating to the visit of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Madrid in 1623 in the attempt to conclude the negotiations for his marriage to the Infanta...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 3-37 Treaties: Relazione of the Treaty of Vervins: [1598]: Ital: Copy. ff. 38-41 Cosimo II; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Contract of marriage: 1608: Ital: Copy. ff. 43-44 Poetry ITALIAN: Monferrato, Italy: Sonnet rel. to the war in Monferr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

7. 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...
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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

8. Add MS 8318

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, political tracts, letters and satirical verses relating to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders; circa 1630-1640. Italian and Spanish. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LXXXIV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '528' in ink in fourth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 528 (vol. 84 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford,...
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Piedmont: Lombardy, Italy: Papers rel. to war in: 1630, 1635: Ital: Copies. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. War: Miscellany rel. to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders: circa 1630-1640: Ital. and Span: Copies. includes: ff. 42-43 Treaties: Regensburg, Germany: Agreement...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1630-1640
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 8320

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, and Portugal; circa 1634-1640. Italian, Spanish and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes (arts. 7-8) three texts relating to oneiromancy or dream interpretation. Two frontispieces with pen decoration (ff. 309, 323). Table of contents (f. 1), added later by same hand as in Add. 8322 and 8324. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. LXXXVI' in lower right corner of f. i, and '530' in ink in fourth spine compartment: i...
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Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to Spain, Germany and Portugal: circa 1634-1640: Ital: Copies. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-32 Philip IV of Spain: Relazione of Spain: 1638: Ital: Copy. ff. 33-48 Johann Anthon I von Eggenberg, Prince; Duke of Crumau; Imperia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1634-1640
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 8326

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of treatises relating to dynastic, administrative and ambassadorial matters involving the Papal Court, Naples and Sicily, Spain, and France, during the papacies of Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII; circa 1623-1667. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes (art. 1) a discourse relating to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, written by Giovanni Ciampoli (1590-1643). Another copy of this text in Vienna, Österreichische...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-98 Innocent II; Pope: Giovanni Ciampoli, Papal secretary and poet: Roger II of Naples and Sicily: Treatise rel. to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, by Giovanni Ciampoli: bef. 1643: Ital: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1623-1667
Extent:
1 item