Items 69-83 are filed together in a wrapper made from a leaf from a noted Missal, containing part of the Prefaces from the Canon of the Mass, in Latin; 15th century.
SACCHETTI CORRESPONDENCE AND PAPERS, VOLS. I-III: secret dispatches, diplomatic and other letters, and papers of Cardinal Giulio Sacchetti, arranged in three registers; 1624-1626. The recipients of the secret dispatches include: Cardinal Nepote Francesco Barberini, his brother Taddeo Barberini, Cardinal Antonio Barberini, brother of the pope, the Capuchin Father Giacinto da Casale, the papal nuncios Bernardino Spada, Giovanni Francesco Guidi del Bagno, Carlo Carafa, Giovanni Battista Agucchi...
UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOLS III, IV. Dispatches of Cardinal Borghese to Ubaldini; 1609, 1612-1614. Italian. Copies. Add. 8723 contains the dispatches relating to the years 1609 and 1613, Add. 8724 the dispatches relating to the years 1612 and 1614. The two MSS. belonged to the same set of volumes as Add. 8727. Armorial bookplates of the Hon. Frederick North, later 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/E' (front pastedowns). '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown of Add. 87...
UBALDINI LETTER-BOOKS. VOLS V, VI. Dispatches of Ubaldini to Cardinal Borghese and others; 1610-1612. Italian. Copies. Add. 8725 contains the dispatches relating to the year 1610, Add. 8726 the dispatches relating to the years 1611 and 1612. Both MSS. stamped (f. 1) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770'. Identifiable with Falconieri MSS. 44 and 45 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 21v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '396' in pencil in top left corn...