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Place Parma, Italy Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. Add MS 8261

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RELAZIONE OF ITALY; 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Historical description of the Italian principalities and republics. Inc. (f. 1) 'L'Italia dominatrice una volta del mondo e poi preda del mondo istesso', expl. (f. 147) 'Isola del Gozzo con la piccola Comino hanno anch' esse i suoi forti'. The relazione is divided into eleven chapters: (i) Italia Proemio (ff. 1-8); (ii) Stati del Duca di Savoia (ff. 8-26v); (iii) Duca di Monferrato (ff. 26v-29v); (iv) La Republica di Genova (ff. 29v-33v); (v) Duc...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th earl of Guilford (L/20/D): bef. 1828. Italy General: Historical description of the Italian principalities and republics: circa 1650: Ital: Copy. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum on pasteboards: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 8-26v Duchy of Savoy: History of: circa...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

2. Add MS 8373

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MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating to the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza during the Papacy of Clement XII, and to the promotion of Vincenzo Bichi to the Cardinalate at the instance of the Portuguese court; 1717-1732. Italian. Partly printed. The MS. includes a miscellaneous collection of papers relating to Vincenzo Bichi and the controversy between the Holy See and state powers on the right of selecting nuncios representing the Holy See in foreign states. Vincenzo Bichi was nuncio in Portugal and ...
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includes: ff. 64-83 Piacenza, Italy: Parma, Italy: Papers rel. to: 1731-1732: Ital. and Lat. ff. 66-67 Clement XII; Pope: Printed Matter: Address of Clement XII on Parma: 1731: Ital: Printed. ff. 69-72 Clement XII; Pope: Typographia Reverendae Camerae Apostolicae; printers: Printed Matter: Prot...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1717-1732
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8540

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PAPERS RELATING TO RIMINI, PARMA, CORREGGIO, MILANO, VALTELLINA, AND CASTRO; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Copies. Included are chronicles and anonymous relazioni. Armorial bookplate of the 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/19/A' (front pastedown). '59' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8539, 8663 and 8670, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 59 (part). Paper; ff. 65, plus two unfoliated blanks after f. 65. Composite volume. Art. 1: number...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/A): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Italy General: Anonymous relazioni and other papers rel. to the Minor States of: 17th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. includes: ff. 1-24v Rimini, Italy: Anonymous chronicle (136...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8706

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS AND PAPERS mostly relating to the Spanish War of Succession; 1697-1710, 1576-1577. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Copies, partly printed. Letters and papers of the Emperors Leopold I and Joseph I, Louis XIV of France, Charles III of Spain, Peter II of Portugal, Pope Clement XI, the Ambassadors at Rome Jean Baptiste René de Froulai, Count of Tessé (France), Count Leopold Joseph of Lamberg, and Ercole Turinetti, Marquis of Prié (the Emperor), and the Count of Melgar (Spain),...
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Jean Baptiste René de Froulai, Count of Tessé; Marshall of France: Lothar Franz von Schönborn, Auditor of the Rota; Archbishop Elector of Mainz: Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragona, Duke of Medina Celi; Viceroy of Naples: Franz Karl von Kaunitz, Auditor of the Rota: Letters amd papers rel. to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1576-1710
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 20390

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1. LETTERS of [Joseph Antoine] Crozat [Agent for the Duke of Orleans ?] to Card. Gualterio, relating principally to negotiations for the purchase of the collection of paintings, etc., of Queen Christina of Sweden from the family of Odescalchi, and of a painting by Correggio in the church of the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
4 May 1715-1 Sep 1722
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 26073

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COLLECTIONS relating to the fine arts, 1750-1752, by Warley. Fr., Ital. and Lat. Among them are- 1. "Descrittione della Citta di Verona; 22 Dec. 1751," f 14. 2. Catalogues of pictures and sculptures at Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Rome, Parma, and Venice; 15 Nov. 1750-24 May, 1752, ff. 17 b- 76 b. 3. "Abecedario Pittorico," f. 77. 4. Catalogue of the literary and art collections of [Joseph] Smith, British Consul at Venice, f. 81 b. Paper. Octavo.
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Art. Catalogues: Pictures and sculptures at Florence, Bologna, Genoa, Rome, Parma, and Venice: 1750-1752. includes: f. 5 b Numismatics: List of Roman coins: 1751-1752. f. 14 Verona, Italy: Descrittione della città di Verona: 1751. ff. 17 b, 32, 37 b, 70 Florence, Italy: Catalogues of pictures ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1750-1752
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 43151

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ABERDEEN PAPERS. Vol. CXIII (ff. 380). Correspondence relating to Sweden, Switzerland and Italy; 1841-1846. Arranged as follows:- (1) Correspondence relating to Sweden. (a) Letters from Sir Thomas Cartwright, G.C.H., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Sweden; Sept. 1841-April ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1841-1846
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 48121

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RELAZIONI AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ITALIAN AFFAIRS; 16th-17th centt. Italian. Copies. 1. ff. 2-77b. Relazione of Rome and its customs, copied from the diary of Francisco Mucantio; 1 March 1586. Beg. 'Il sommo Pontefice hà per suoi'. Ends 'in questo gran Theatro de Mondo'. 2. ff. 79-89...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 48131

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RELAZIONI, historical documents and tracts, relating to Italy; 1527-1620, n.d. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. 1. ff. 2-119b. Relazione of Venice by the former Spanish ambassador Alfonso della Cueva, Marqués de Bedmar; 1619? Beg. 'Laboriosa impresa per certo è'. Ends 'dum spiritus hos reget artus ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

10. Harley MS 2755

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Harley MS 2755
Title:
Virgil, Aeneid, Bucolica, and Georgica
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Contents: ff. 1r-180r: Virgil, Aeneid; ff. 181r-195v: Virgil, Bucolica (Bucolics); ff. 196r-234r: Virgil, Georgica (Georgics). [f. 234v is blank]. Decoration: 1 large initial in gold on a panel with white vine scrolls extending into the margins, and a partial decorated border with white...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3rd quarter of the 15th century
Extent:
1 volume