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61. Add MS 8404

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GIOVANNI PESARO: Relazione of Rome; [1656]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome written by Giovanni Pesaro together with Bertuccio Valier, Alvise Contarini and Nicolò Sagredo upon their return from the extraordinary embassy to the Papal Court in 1655 to congratulate Alexander VII on his election to the Papacy. Other copies in Add. 8330 (art. 1, ff. 2-96v), 8341 (art. 5, ff. 122-185), and 8398 (art. 7, ff. 324-393v). Text differs at the end from the relazione published by Barozzi - Berchet, ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Alexander VII; Pope: Giovanni Pesaro, Venetian Ambassador: Carlo Contarini; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Pesaro: 1656: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1656]
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1 item

62. Add MS 8405

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ANTONIO GRIMANI: Relazione of Rome; [1671]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome by Antonio Grimani, Venetian Ambassador at Rome from 1667 to 1671 during the papacies of Clement IX (1667-1669) and Clement X (1670-1676). Other copies in Add. 8399 (art. 4, ff. 212-326), 10157, 16518 (ff. 364-410v). Published as Relatione della Corte di Roma del Grimani in Li tesori della Corte Romana in varie relazioni fatte in Pregadi d'alcuni Ambasciatori Veneti, Residenti in Roma, sotto differenti Pontefici...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Clement X; Pope: Domenico Contarini; Doge of Venice: Clement IX; Pope: Antonio Grimani, Venetian Ambassador: Relazione of Rome by Antonio Grimani: 1671: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1671]
Extent:
1 item

63. Add MS 8406

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RELAZIONI of Rome; 1648-1654. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Rome during the papacy of Innocent X (1644-1655). The authors are the Venetian ambassadors Giovanni Giustinian (art. 1, ff. 2-110), and Alvise di Nicolò Contarini (art. 2, ff. 111-140), and the French ambassador Henri d'Estampes, Bailli de Valençay (art. 3, ff. 141-165v). The MS. also includes (art. 4, ff. 166-205v) a letter from Cardinal Pier Donato Cesi to the Prime Minister of Spain Don Luis Mendez de Haro y ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Relazioni of Rome: 1648-1654: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 2-110 Giovanni Giustinian, Venetian Ambassador at Rome: Francesco da Molin; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Giustinian: 1651: Ital: Copy. ff. 111-140 France...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1648-1654
Extent:
1 item

64. Add MS 8452-8460

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DIARIES OF PAOLO ALALEONA; 1586-1637. Latin. Copies. Alaleona (1585-1638) was Master of Ceremonies at the Papal Court and private cameriere to Paul V, and helped compile the Ceremonial of the Conclaves issued by Gregory XV in 1622. His nine-volume diary covering the papacies from Pope Sixtus V to Pope Urban VIII remained unpublished: information on Alaleona and a list of MSS. copies of his diaries in Roman libraries in Bibliografia Romana. Notizie della vita e delle opere degli scrittori rom...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Paolo Alaleona, Papal Master of Ceremonies: Diaries and Memoranda: Diaries of Paolo Alaleona: 1586-1637: Lat: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
9 items

65. Add MS 8461

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SILVIO DE PAULIS: Inventory of the archive of the Castel Sant'Angelo; 1610. Latin. The Archive at Castel Sant'Angelo or Archivum Arcis was established during the papacy of Clement VIII (1592-1605), even though the papal collection of privileges, royal letters, imperial decrees, deeds, incoming letters to the Curia, and the like had been placed in the castle since the time of Sixtus IV (1471-1484). The archive remained in the castle until it was hastily transferred to the Vatican Palace and i...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Catalogues of Libraries, etc: Paul V; Pope: Silvio de Paulis, Prefect of the Archive of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome: Catalogue of the Archive of Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome , offered to Paul V by Silvio de Paulis: 1610: Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1610
Extent:
1 item

66. Add MS 8466

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EXCERPTS FROM THE RULES of the Apostolic Chancery; circa 1611 (see f. 67). Latin. Copy. The so-called Regulae Cancellariae Apostolicae were renewed upon the election of a new pope until 1730, when the 72 rules that are now in use were established (cf. Del Re, La Curia romana, pp. 285-286). The present MS. contains excerpts from the text of rules in force during the papacy of Paul V (1605-1621). Title (f. 1) 'Regula [sic] Cancellariae', inc. 'Regulae Cancellariae expirant per mortem Pontifici...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: early 17th cent. Paul V; Pope: Excerpts from the Rules of the Apostolic Chancery: circa 1611: Lat: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
c 1611
Extent:
1 item

67. Add MS 8472

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GIROLAMO LUNADORO: Relazione of Rome; circa 1611. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Papal Court written by the nobleman Girolamo Lunadoro of Siena, allegedly for a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly Carlo (elected cardinal in 1615). Other 17th-cent. copies, with some textual differences, in Add. 8356 (dated 1623: art. 3, ff. 9-49v), 8471, 18660 (ff. 85-136), Arundel 21 (dated 11 Jan. 1611), Egerton 2210 (ff. 112-163), and Royal 14.A.xx (art. 6, ff. 546-622v); a shorter version in Harley 754 (ff. 2-...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Carlo de' Medici, Cardinal 1615: Relazione of Rome by G. Lunadoro, offered to (?): circa 1611: Ital: Copy. Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Girolamo Lunadoro, of Siena; Cavaliere: Relazione of Rome by Girolamo Lunadoro: circa 1611: Ital:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1611
Extent:
1 item

68. 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

69. Add MS 8587

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Marcantonio Da Mula: Diplomatic letters to the Doge of Venice (1560-1561); late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Collection of letters sent by Da Mula (see f. 5v) as the Venetian Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome to Doge Girolamo Priuli. Most of the letters (ff. 1-195v) cover 24 Sept. 1560 to 25 Feb. 1561, a period of difficult relations between the Republic and its Ambassador, who was suspected of pressing Pope Pius IV for ecclesiastical benefits incompatible with the status of a Ven...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Vellum on pasteboards: late 16th-early 17th cent. Venice: Pius IV; Pope: Diplomatic letters to the Doge from the Venetian Ambassador at Rome M. Da Mula: 1560-1561: Ital: Copies. Girolamo Priuli, Doge of Venice: Marcantonio Da Mula, Venetian Ambassador at Rome; Bishop of Veron...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

70. Add MS 8669

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ACCOUNTS OF THE REVOLT OF NAPLES IN 1647; late 17th cent. Italian. Copies. A collection of papers relating to the revolt of Naples between 9 and 30 July 1647. The addressee is most probably the Spanish government. Title (f. 1) 'Lettere de Avvisi, et altre scritture continente la solevatione de Napoli, che seguì li 7 Luglio 1647'. Inc. (f. 2) 'Napoli 9 Luglio 1647 / La perniciosa revolutione di poveri gabella sopra i frutti di questa Città', expl. (f. 10) 'Napoli 30 Luglio 1647 ... del debito...
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Chronicles: Philip III of Naples and Sicily: Accounts of the revolt of Naples 1647: 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 17th century
Extent:
1 item