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Name Mattei Library Place Rome, Italy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8313

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Father Nicolò Ridolfi, the burial place of St. Peter and the League against the Turks signed in 1571 by Venice, Spain, and the Holy See, during the papacy of Pius V; circa 1570-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LX' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '504' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 504 (vol. 60 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's c...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-72v Father Niccolò Ridolfi, General of the Dominicans: Papers rel. to the ecclesiastical court case against: [1643]: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 73-102 Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Michele Lonigo, Deputy Prefect o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1570-1644
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8316

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portugal and the election of King John IV. The MS. also includes (art. 6, ff. 105-121v) an anonymous relazione of the devastation of Rome by the Gauls under their leader Brennus in 390 B.C. Pen-decorated frontispieces (ff. 79, 148, 182), and family tre...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-23v Political Tracts: Genoa; Doges of: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ambassadorial precedence for the Genoese ambassadors: 1st half 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 45-63v City of Ferrara: Political Tracts: Venice: Tracts rel. to territ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1640-1643
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8484

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NICOLA SIGNORILI: 'Descriptio urbis Romae eiusque excellentiae'; circa 1425. Latin. Copy, 18th cent. Relazione of Rome offered to Pope Martin V (1417-1431) by Nicola Signorili, secretary to the Magistrate of Rome. Other MSS. copies in Archivio Colonna, MS. II A.50; Vatican City, Vatican Library, MSS. Vat. Lat. 3536 and 6781, Chigi MSS. I.V.168 (ff. 1v-19v) and I.VI.204 (ff. 1-31); Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS. Brancacciano I, C, 35; a MS. in the Biblioteca Bruti and one in the Vatican Ci...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Nicola Signorili, of Rome; Secretary to the Magistrate of Rome: Martin V; Pope: Relazione of Rome, its churches and reliquaries, offered to Martin V by Nicola Signorili: circa 1425: Lat: Copy, 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item