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Container Reference (shelfmark) Add MS 33733-33791

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(Gr. xxviii.) "VITA di Madama Maria Mazzarini, Contestabilessa Colonna ": memoirs of Maria Mancini-Mazarini, niece of Cardinal Mazarin and wife (1661) of Lorenzo Onuphrio Colonna, Duke of Taliacoti, etc., Constable of Naples. Italian. ]Purporting to be composed by herself, with the exception of ...
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Western Manuscripts
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Italian
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17th century
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1 item

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(Gr. xxxii.) "LA VITA d'Innocentio XII.," or " Relacione della Corte di Roma," etc. : an account of the life and character of Pope Innocent XII. and his Cardinals, and of the system of the Papal Court, composed " da un personaggio " for the Marchese Clemente Vitelli, Florentine ambassador at Rom...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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18th century
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(Gr. Iii.) " HIE HEBT sich an das fuch des edeln Ritters vn landtfarers Marcho polo " : a transcript from the rare edition in German of the Travels of Marco Polo printed at Nuremberg in 1477, taken from a copy in the Imperial Library at Vienna and certified as exact by B. Kopitar, " Biblioth. Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
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English, French, and German
Date Range:
1817
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1 item

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(Gr. li.) " MEMORIALE del viaggio di frate Oderiogo di Friuli ": an Italian version of the travels to Cathay, etc., circ. 1318- 1330, of the Franciscan Odoric of Pordenone, or Friuli, transcribed by the Cavaliere Alessandro di Mortara from an ancient copy in his own possession. Neither this tran...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Italian
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19th century
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1 item

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(Gr. xxxix.) " CI COMENCE le liure qui parle des diuersites des pais ... compile fait et ordonne par Mesire Jehan Mandeuille, Cheualier, ne dangleterre de la uille con dit saint Albain ": the French version of the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1322-1336. For a partial collation, see the Roxbur...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and French
Date Range:
Late 14th century
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1 item

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(Gr. xl.) " THE, BOKE of Moundeuyle, kny t," or the Travels of Sir John Mandeville, 1322 (here 1300)-1336: the commoner mutilated English version, with the lacuna after the words, as here written (f. 11 ), " Roys yles " (see the Roxburghe Club edition, 1889, p. x.). Paper; ff. 50. xvth cent. Fol...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
15th century
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1 item

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(Gr. xviii.) " ALBERICUS VESPUCIUS Laurentio Petri Francisci de Medicis " : copy of the letter of Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo de' Mediei on his third voyage to America, in 1501. Latin. Paper; ff. 13 (those containing the text numbered at the foot from 85-95, as if they had formed part of a large...
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Western Manuscripts
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English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century
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1 item

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(Gr. l.) COPIES of letters and relations of Hernando Cortés, conqueror of Mexico; 1522-1544. Spanish. 1. Letters to the Emperor Charles V., 15 May, 1522 (P. de Gayangos, Cartas y Relaciones de H. Cortés, 1866, p. 159), f. 2; 11 Sept. 1526 (ib. pp. 369, 377), ff. 3 b, 10; 10 Oct. 1530 (ib. p. 4...
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Western Manuscripts
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Spanish
Date Range:
18th century
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1 item

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(Gr. vii.) " ANNUALL LETTERS written, out of Japonia [Japan] in the yeare of our Lorde 1625. 1626. 1627. to . . . Mutio Vitelleschi, Generall of the Society of Iesus." With a dedicatory letter from the translator, Thomas Somerset, 5th son of Henry Somerset, Earl of Worcester [succ. 1628, cr. Mar...
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Western Manuscripts
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English
Date Range:
c 1632-c 1642
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1 item

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(Gr. xvii.) " DESCRITTIONE del Mar Negro, e della Tartaria, par il Dottor Emidio Dortelli d'Ascoli, Lett: Dom: Prefetto del Caffa [sc. Kaffa, in the Crimea], Tartaria, &c., 1634." The Tartary described (f. 21 b) is not the " Gran Tartaria Asiatica," but "Tartaria Sarmata," sc. the Crimea. Pa...
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Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1634
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1 item