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1. Add MS 8262

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters, tracts and orations relating to the Papacy, Spain, France, Venice, the German Empire, Austria, Dalmatia, Turkey, Savoy, Florence, Naples, Genoa, and Ethiopia; circa 1494-1585. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes relazioni of: - (a) Spain by Federico Badoer, 1557 (ff. 1-81v): other copies in Add. 29444 (ff. 440-507: dated 1558), Lansdowne 840 A (ff. 31-91: dated 1558), Royal 14.A.XIII (art. 6, ff. 225-384: dated 1558...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 1-81v Philip II of Spain: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Lorenzo Priuli; Doge of Venice: Federico Badoer, Venetian Ambassador: Relazione of Spain by Federico Badoer: 1557: Ital: Copy. ff. 82-102v Francis I of France: Andrea ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8267

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and financial accounts relating to the Papacy, Venice, France, Spain, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and England; circa 1532-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (ff. 231-232v) the final sentence pronounced by Pope Clement VII refusing divorce to Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, annulling his marriage to Anne Boleyn, restoring Catherine to her royal state, and excommunicating the king, 11 July 1533, in Latin, inc. 'La sentenza d'Inghilterra...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-53v Marc Antonio Cornaro, Venetian envoy at Nice: Niccolò Tiepolo, Venetian envoy at Nice: Paul III; Pope: Francis I of France: Charles V; Emperor of Germany: Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Relazione of the Congress of Nic...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
c 1532-1573
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8273

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COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, treaties, and papal instructions relating to Venice, France, the Empire, Switzerland, Spain, the Papacy, the Council of Trent, Parma and Constantinople; circa 1416-1564. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect. The MS includes: - (a) relazione of France by Marino Giustinian, [1535] (ff. 2-59v): another copy in Add. 8262 (art. b, ff. 82-102v), published by Albèri, s. i, vol. i (Florence, 1839), pp. 145-196; - (b) relazione of Germany by Marino Cavalli,...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-59v Francis I of France: Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Marino Giustinian, Venetian Ambassador: Relazione of France by Marino Giustinian: [1535]: Ital: Copy. ff. 60-99v Marino Cavalli, Venetian ambassador to Germany and at...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8276

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and peace treaties relating to the Papacy, Switzerland, Cyprus, France, Naples, Genoa, Corsica, Piacenza, the German Empire, England, Spain, Tivoli, and Venice; circa 1361, 1514-1570. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - (a) tract relating to the sede vacante (ff. 2-15v); - (b) tract relating to the election of Pope Sixtus IV, in Latin (ff. 16-27); - (c) heads of agreement for the League between Pope Leo X and the...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 16-27 Sixtus IV; Pope: Tract rel. to his election: circa 1471: Lat: Copy. ff. 28-40v Treaties: Leo X; Pope: Switzerland: League between Leo X and Swiss Cantons: 1514: Ital: Copy. ff. 41-57v Cyprus: Nicosia, Cyprus: Relazione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8343

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to the Papacy and its relations with Poland, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain; 1530-1596. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes: - (a) summary (art. 1, ff. 1-81v) of negotiations between Bonifacio Vannozzi, secretary to Cardinal Enrico Caetani, papal legate at Cracow, and Joannis Tamoscio, Grand Chancellor of Poland: the negotiations led to the Synod of Brest-Litovsk, and the conversion of Orthodox Poles to the Ro...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Historical papers rel. to the Papacy and its relations with Poland, Venice, the Holy Roman Empire and Spain: 1530-1596: Ital. and lat: Copies. includes: ff. 1-81v Enrico Caetani, Cardinal: Sigismund III ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 8371

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
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Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8398

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Relazioni of Rome; vol. i; 1535-1660. Paper; ff. 462, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 272. Composite volume: arts. 1, 2, and 4 marked respectively with initials 'D', 'D', 'H' in black ink in upper right corner of first leaves. Modern foliation '1-451' (followed here), omitting no. 126 and on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1535-1660
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 14093

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ORIGINAL COMMISSION, in Latin, from [Andrea Gritti] Doge of Venice, to Victor Barbadico, appointing him Podestà of Brescia; dat. 3 July, 1535. The first leaf has been torn away. On vellum. Small Quarto. [14,093.]
Scope & Content:
Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Commission appointing V. Barbadico Podestà of Brescia: 1535. Victor Barbadico: Appointment as Podestà of Brescia: 1535.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jul 1535
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 15518

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ORIGINAL Commission, in Latin, from Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice, to Nicolo Morosini, appointing him Capitano of Vicenza [in 15311; with an illuminated frontispiece, bearing the arms of Morosini. Some leaves are wanting at the end. On vellum, in the original Venetian binding. Small Quarto. [15,518.]
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Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Commission appointing N. Morosini Capitano of Vicenza: 1531. Nicolò Morosini: Commission appointing him Capitano of Vicenza, with his arms.: 1531.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1531
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 45539

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ORIGINAL COMMISSION, in Latin, from Andrea Gritti, Doge of Venice, to Giovanni Contarini as Captain of Cyprus; 30 July 1538. Subscribed (f. 24) by Hieronimo Muriano, Sec. to the Signory. Followed by instructions on the rendering of accounts (ff. 24b-25), in Italian, from the 'Provedadori sopra la Chamera di Imprestedi' (cf. Add. MS. 17347, ff. 101b-102) and a statement of Contarini's salary (f. 30). The commission is described and summarised by Sir G. F. Hill, A History of Cyprus, iii, 1948,...
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Giovanni Contarini: Commission to, etc., as Venetian Captain of Cyprus: 1538.: Lat. and Ital. Andrea Gritti; Doge of Venice: Commission to G. Contarini as Captain of Cyprus: 1538.: Lat. and Ital. includes: f. i Bookplates and Book-stamps: Hill (Sir George Francis) K.C.B.; d. 1948.f.v Seym...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
30 Jul 1538
Extent:
1 item