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1. Add MS 4125

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ANTHONY BACON PAPERS Collection of letters and papers on state affairs, chiefly originals, from the papers of Anthony Bacon and addressed to him, used by Birch in his Memoirs of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, 2 vols., 1754, and his Historical View of the Negotiations between England, France and B...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1584-1657
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1 item

2. Add MS 4149

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RALPH STARKEY TRANSCRIPTS Transcripts of State Papers and political tracts made chiefly by Ralph Starkey (d. 1628), relating with few exceptions to the royal marriages of England; 1474-1624. Viz.:- (1) Covenant for a proposed marriage of Cicely, dau. of Edward IV, with Prince James of Scotlan...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
1474-1624
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1 item

3. Add MS 8298

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historic chronicles, relazioni, papal instructions, letters and discourse relating to the Hanseatic League, Monferrato, Great Britain, Rome, Mantua, Spain, India, Florence, Bohemia, Lucca, Modena, Switzerland, Poland, Prussia, and Portugal; 1391, and circa 1558-1626. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also includes (art. 18, ff. 135-200) a memorial on the reform of the Company of Jesus by the Spanish Father Juan Mariana (1536-1624), circa 1605...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-20 Hanseatic League: Anonymous history and relazione of the: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 25-27 James I of England: Abridged life of: circa 1601: Ital: Copy. ff. 28-36 Richard II of England: Boniface IX; Pope: Bull of Bonifa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
17th century
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1 item

4. 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...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
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1 item

5. Add MS 8327

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, France, Poland, Savoy, Spain, Bohemia, and Venice, mostly during the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1598-1655. Italian. Copies. Title-pages with pendecoration throughout. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later: entitled 'Indice del tomo 44', with '44' later crossed out and corrected in '66-67'. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCIII' in upper right corner of f. i, and '537' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Matt...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Innocent X; Pope: Miscellany of historical papers, mostly rel. to: circa 1598-1651: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 109-133 John Casimir of Poland: Letters of, and treatises rel. to, as Cardinal: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 134-144v Tommaso Francesco Sav...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1598-1655
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1 item

6. Add MS 8329

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; - (b) discourse, letter and terms of agreement (arts. 2, 6-7) relating to the reconciliation of the Barberinis with Pope Innocent X, 1646; - (c) speech (art. 3) on Tuscany's neutrality addressed to Grand Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany by Traiano Ma...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff.2-41 John IV of Portugal: Manifesto: 1647: Ital: Copy. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Innocent X; Pope: Historical papers rel. to his agreement with the Barberinis: 1646: Ital: Copies. ff. 42-65, 96-114v Barberini family; of Rome: Historical pape...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1619-1649
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8340

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INSTRUCTIONS to papal nuncios and other papal officers appointed to Spain, Flanders and Germany during the papacy of Gregory XV (1621-1623), with political and satirical texts, partly relating to Naples; 1621-1772. Italian and Latin. Partly copies. Items relating to Naples include two treatises (art. 6) concerning ecclesiastical benefices granted to the citizens of Naples in 1708, and satirical epitaphs (art. 9) relating to the famine in Naples in 1764 during the reign of King Ferdinand IV o...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 1-20 Philip III of Spain: Alessandro di Sangro, Patriarch of Alexandria; Bishop of Benevento: Papal instructions rel. to Spain to Alessandro di Sangro: 1621: Ital: Copy. ff. 1-63, 78-80v Gregory XV; Pope: Instructions to papal nuncio...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1621-1772
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1 item

8. Add MS 8352

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to Persia, Spain, France, Rome and Florence; circa 1537-1666. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1). Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CXI' in upper right corner of f. i: identifiable with Mattei MS. 555 (vol. 111 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in upper left corner of front pa...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-113 Pietro Della Valle, of Rome; traveller: Persia, Shahs of. Abbas I, The Great: Relazione of Persia by Pietro Della Valle: circa 1628: Ital: Copy. ff. 114-183 Philip III of Spain: Alessandro Tassoni, of Modena; author: 'Philippich...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1537-1666
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1 item

9. Add MS 8354

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RELAZIONI AND HISTORICAL TREATISES relating to France, Savoy, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Spain, Valtelline, Naples, Parma and Piacenza; circa 1546-1670. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (ff. i and i verso), added later. Old shelfmark in ink '14[2]' in fifth spine compartment: possibly identifiable with Mattei MS. 142 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 31. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '336' in pencil in upper left corner of front pasted...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-86v Marino Cavalli, Venetian ambassador to Germany and at Constantinople: Francis I of France: Francesco Donà; Doge of Venice: Relazione of France by Marino Cavalli: [1546]: Ital: Copy. ff. 87-131 Giovanni Correr, Venetian ambassad...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1546-1670
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1 item

10. Add MS 8356

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RELAZIONI AND POLITICAL INSTRUCTIONS relating to Venice, the Papacy, and Spain; circa 1607-1643. Italian. Copies. Ownership note (front pastedown) 'Ex Libris / Marii Marefusci', partly cancelled; old shelfmark in black ink 'Cod. 192' in lower left corner of front pastedown; old shelfmark in faint roman numerals 'CXCII' in lower spine: identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 192 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 32v. Also shelfmark '14' in brown ink in left margin of front pastedown. Owned by Fr...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 1-4v Paul V; Pope: Berlingerio Gessi, Bishop of Rimini; Cardinal 1626: Leonardo Donà; Doge of Venice: Instructions to Card. B. Gessi, rel. to Venice: 1607: Ital: Copy. ff. 5-8 Paul V; Pope: Leonardo Donà; Doge of Venice: François de ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1607-1643
Extent:
1 item