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Project / Collection Additional Manuscripts Name Gustavus Adolphus II, King of Sweden Level [32] Fonds

1. Add MS 8304

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, and discourses relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, Sweden, the League of Tuscany, Venice, Modena and Parma during the war of Castro, Ferrara, France, the Netherlands, and the Congress of Cologne; circa 1536-1672. Italian and Latin. Copies, mid 17th cent. The MS. includes (art. 17, ff. 264-279v) three excerpts from the Storia d'Italia by the Florentine historian Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540), relating to the rights of the Apostolic See over te...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/21/C): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 47-54v Ceremonials: Innocent X; Pope: Taddeo Barberini, Prince of Palestrina; Prefect of Rome: Juan de Velasco de la Cueva, Count of Siruela: Federico Savelli, Du...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 34314

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LETTER addressed to King Charles I., on the political situation in Europe, with special reference to the Palatinate, advising an active co-operation with Gustavus Adolphus. Written after the death of Tilly and before that of Gustavus Adolphus (i.e. between 30 April and 6 Nov., 1632: see ff. 79, 81, etc.). Paper; ff. 100. xviith cent. Bound in brown morocco, tooled. Small Quarto.
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Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden: Letter advising Charles I. to co-operate with: 1632. Rhine; Electors Palatine of the: Letter advising Charles I. to procure the reinstatement of: 1632. Political Tracts: Letter to Charles I., urging alliance with Gustavus Adolphus: 1632. Charles I of England: L...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 38597

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LETTER-BOOK contaning,, drafts of letters, official and private, of Thomas Read [Reid, Ithaedus], Latin Secretary to James I, covering the period 1619-1623 ; with a few common-places. Autograph, except for f. 109. The official correspondence, which forms the bulk of the volume, comprises drafts, chiefly in Latin, of letters from James I to foreign sovereigns, etc., dealing, among other matters, with the sending of English levies to Poland; the Palatinate War and the special embassy of Sir Ed...
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James I of England: State letter of, in letterbook of his Latin Sec., T. Read: 1619-1623.: Drafts. Philip IV of Spain: Letters to, from James I: 1620, 1621.: Lat.: Drafts. includes: f. 1 Christian IV of Denmark: Letter to the Queen Mother, Sophia, from James 1: 1619.: Lat.: Draft. f. 1 b Fred...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1619-1623
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38669

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COPIES of letters (Latin and French) from Charles I to foreign potentates, etc. in the autograph of George Rudolph Weckherlin, Secretary for Foreign Tongues. The letters, dating from 1627-1635, are addressed to the following : City of Hamburg. ff. 1, 9 b, 17 b. King of Denmark. ff. 1b, 2, 3, 4 b, 5, 8, 9, 10b, 36. City of Lubeck. ff. 2b, 17 b. G. Cornaro, Doge of Venice. f. 3. Grand Duke of Tuscany. ff.3b, 25, 31. City of Berne. f. 3 b. City of Zurich. f. 4. City of Basle. f. 4. Gustavus Ado...
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Charles I of England: Letters to foreign potentates, etc.: 1627-1635.: Lat. and Fr.: Copies. Georg Rudolph Weckherlin, Secretary for Foreign Tongues to Charles I: Copies of letters from Charles I, etc.in his hand. Saxony, Electors of. John George I: Letter to his son from Charles I: 1632.: Lat...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Latin
Date Range:
Unspecified
Extent:
1 item