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21. Add MS 8305

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies. Including (art. 7, ff. 75-85) an anonymous commentary on the first book of the Historiae by Publius Cornelius Tacitus. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LI' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '495.' in ink in ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Political Tracts: Political and historical tracts: circa 1563-1621: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-5 Switzerland: Relazione of: circa 1562-1564: Ital: Copy. ff. 6-10 Pius V; Pope: Discourse rel. to papal authority: circa 1569: Ital: Copy. ff. 11-2...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1562-1621
Extent:
1 item

22. Add MS 8306

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts relating to Rome, Florence, Ferrara and Padua; circa 1565-1574. Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '496' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 496 (vol. 52 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 23v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '103' in pencil in top left c...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-187 Ceremonials: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Tract rel. to papal elections: 17th cent.: Lat: Copy. ff. 188-284v Tiberio Deciani, of Udine; called Deciano; professor of law at Padua: Legal advice rel. to the prec...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

23. 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

24. Add MS 8321

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RELAZIONI AND DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS relating to the ambassadorial relationships between the papal court and Spain, Florence, France, and Venice, during the Thirty Years War and the papacies of Gregory XV, Urban VIII; circa 1621-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) Italian translation (art. 8) of La liberté glorieuse de Monaco by Charles de Vernasque Ferriol (Paris, 1643), followed by the letter (art. 9) from from Honoré II to Juan de Velasco de la Cueva, Count of S...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Miscellany rel. to ambassadorial relationships with Spain, France, Florence and Venice: circa 1621-1644: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 33-43v Gaspar de Guzman, Conde de Olivares: Pedro Fajardo Zúñiga ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1621-1644
Extent:
1 item

25. Add MS 8331

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to ambassadorial precedence at the papal court for representatives of the Republic of Genoa, after 1641; - (b) discourse (art. 4) addressed to Queen Christina of Sweden by the Dutch scholar Theodor Ameyden in celebration of the treaty of peace with the...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political treatises and satires rel. to: circa 1613-1652: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-84v Republic of Genoa: Ceremonials: Ambassadors: Treatises rel. to ambassadorial precedence of Genoese represe...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1613-1652
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 8336

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political and satirical papers relating to Germany, Turkey, the Papal Court, Poland, France, Spain, and Venice; 1654-1675. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) satirical dialogues and tracts (arts. 1-2, 4, 6-7, and 34) relating to Germany and the Ottoman Empire, the papal court, and Poland; - (b) relazione (art. 3) of Rome by the French Ambassador Henri d'Estampes, Bailli de Valençay, and letter in reply (art. 5) from Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi to th...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political and satirical papers relating to: 1654-1675: Ital. and French: Copies. includes: ff. 1-35v, 49-66, 79-93, 282-313v, 317-325 Political and satirical tracts: Treatises rel. to Germany, the O...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1654-1675
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 8341

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, treatises and other historical papers relating to Rome and its territories, Venice, Spain, France, Savoy, Geneva and Colombia; circa 1558-1724. Italian and Latin. Copies and drafts. The volume was possibly compiled around 1722 during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). With several contemporary corrections and additions throughout. Old shelfmark in ink 'XLIX' in lower spine: possibly identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 49 in Guilford's catalogue Add. ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Papers rel. to: circa 1558-1724: Ital. and Lat.: Copies and drafts. includes: ff. 51-71v Bernardo Navagero, Venetian Ambassador at Venice, Rome and Constantinople; afterwa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1558-1724
Extent:
1 item

28. Add MS 8342

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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgnano) in anticipation of his return to Rome, circa 1554; - (b) political instructions (art. 2, ff. 97-124v) from Lelio Marretti to a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly identifiable with Francesco de' Medici (1594-1614), brother of Cosimo II: the treati...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Political Tracts: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Political tracts rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1574-1610: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-96v Girolamo Savorgnan, Bishop of Sibenik: Giovanni Francesco Commendone, Bishop of Zante; Cardi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1554-1610
Extent:
1 item

29. 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

30. Add MS 8346

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome and Portugal; 1640-1669. Italian. Copies. The papers relate to the refusal of the Apostolic See to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings and the consequent refusal of the Popes to receive Portuguese ambassadors and approve the nomination of bishops in Portugal after the secession of the country from Spain. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. XCIX' in upper right corner of f. i: identifi...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Portugal General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Historical papers rel. to the Papacy and Portugal: circa 1640-1669: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 107-126 Alexander VII; Pope: Francisco de Sousa Coutinho, Portuguese Ambassador to R...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1640-1669
Extent:
1 item