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71. Add MS 8716

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FARNESE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO FRANCE AND PORTUGAL; 1539-1540, 1560-1564. Italian. Copies, partly in cipher. Correspondence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), nephew of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), relating to France and Portugal. Arts. 1-4 contain dispatches relating to Cardinal Farnese's legation as legatus a latere to France (24 Nov. 1539-5 June 1540), and the state of affairs between the Holy See, Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France . The authors of the dispatche...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 16th cent. Alessandro Farnese, Cardinal: Correspondence rel. to France and Portugal: 1539-1540, 1560-1564: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1v-282 Paul III; Pope: Correspondence of Card. A. Farnese rel. to France: 1539-1540: Ital: Copies. ff. 1v-282 Francis I of...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1539-1564
Extent:
1 item

72. Add MS 8717

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FARNESE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO FRANCE; 1539-1540. Italian. Copies. Correspondence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), nephew of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), containing dispatches relating to his legation as legatus a latere to France (24 Nov. 1539-5 June 1540), and to the state of affairs between the Holy See, Emperor Charles V and Francis I of France. The authors are Cardinals Farnese, Marcello Cervini, legate a latere to the emperor (12 May-15 Oct. 1540), Guido Ascanio Sf...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 16th cent. Francis I of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Correspondence of Card. A. Farnese rel. to: 1539-1540: Ital: Copies. Paul III; Pope: Correspondence of Card. A. Farnese rel. to France: 1539-1540: Ital: Copies. Alessandro Farnese, Cardinal: Correspo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1539-1540
Extent:
1 item

73. Add MS 8746-8750

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MAZARIN LETTER-BOOKS: Letters of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin and his secretary Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei; 1647-1651. Italian, Spanish, Latin and French. Copies, partly 18th cent. The letters are mainly addressed to Italian cardinals, princes and captains. Recipients include Cardinals Girolamo Grimaldi, Antonio Barberini, Rinaldo d'Este, Virginio Orsini, Giulio Sacchetti, Alderano Cibo, Ascanio Filomarino, Archbishop of Naples, and Mazarin's own brother Michele Mazzarino, Archbishop of Aix and Cardi...
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Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei, Secretary to Card. Mazarin: Letters: 1647-1651: Ital: Copies. Giulio Mazarin, Cardinal 1641: Letter-Books of: 1647-1651: Ital., Span., Lat., and Fr: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1647-1651
Extent:
5 items

74. Add MS 8789

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F. M. [FILIPPO MATTEI ?]: Demonstrations of plane Geometry based on works by Vito Caravelli; 1787. Italian. Autograph. The MS. contains sixteen problems of plane geometry, elaborated from works by the Neapolitan abbot and mathematician Vito Caravelli (1724-1800). Caravelli's works on mathematics were published in Naples in 1759 and 1769, each edition including a volume entitled Geometria Piana; cf. Biografia degli uomini illustri del Regno di Napoli, ed. by D. Martuscelli, t. 9 (Naples, 1822...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Roman quarter binding of red leather and decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 1787. Mathematics: Demonstrations of Plane Geometry by F. M.: 1787: Ital. Vito Caravelli, Neapolitan Abbot and mathematician: Demonstrations of Plane Geometry by F. M. based on: 1787: Ital. F[i...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1787
Extent:
1 item

75. Add MS 8806

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MICHELE LONIGO: Discourses of ecclesiastical etiquette; circa 1608-1644. Italian. Copy. Short tracts relating to problems of etiquette addressed to various cardinals and bishops by Michele Lonigo, deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library and Master of Ceremonies of the Papal Chapel at the time of Paul V, Gregory XV and Urban VIII. Among others the tracts are addressed to Louis de Nogaret d'Épernon, cardinal de La Valette (ff. 2-12v), cardinal Ascanio Colonna (ff. 13-18v), cardinal Girolamo Colo...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Ceremonials: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Michele Lonigo, Deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library; Papal Master of Ceremonies: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ecclesiastical etiquette by Michele Lonigo: circa 1608-1644: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1608-1644
Extent:
1 item

76. Add MS 8812

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COLLECTION OF ITALIAN VERSE AND PROSE; circa 1656. Italian. Copy. The collection includes two idylls in praise of Queen Christina of Sweden (arts. 1-2, ff. 1-27v) and two poems in octava rima in praise of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (art. 3, ff. 28-45). From the Mattei Library, MS. 27: old shelfmark '27' in ink in forth spine compartment; cf. Mattei catalogue in Add. 8220, f. 13. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in top...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th-cent. Poetry ITALIAN: Poetical collection: circa 1656: Ital: Copy. includes: ff. 1-27v Christina of Sweden: Two idylls by G. Alberici in praise of: 1656: Ital: Copy. ff. 1-27v Gianantonio Alberici, Prince of Vetrana; Marquis of Salice: Two idylls in pr...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1656
Extent:
1 item