ENGLISH songs, seventy, in number; set to music by various composers of the xviith century, among whom are Nicholas Lanneire, William Lawes, Henry Lawes, Richard Deering, John Hilton, Simon Ives, Dr. John Wilson, and John Lenton. At the beginning is a harmonisation of the scale for the lute. Pap...
ORIGINAL letters and autographs, viz.:- 1. Louis [Duke of Orleans, afterwards Louis XII. of France] to [Charles VIII.] of France; Novaire [Novara], 17 July, [before 1498]. Fr. Signed. f. 1. 2. Henry VIII. of England to Maximilian, Duke of Milan; reporting his successes against the French, in...
ORIGINAL letters of Italian artists, and others, viz.:- 1. Matteo Boiardo to his Podestà of Scandiano, instructing him to restore certain property to "Maestre Pollo di Mazo," of Bologna; dated Reggio, 12 Feb. 1490. ltal. Holograph. f. 1. 2. Pietro [Vanucci] Perugino to Isabella [widow of Fra...
LETTERS and papers, principally addressed to Dukes of Milan; 1409-1656; viz.:- 1. Articles of agreement for forming, a commercial partnership between Salvestro Boccha, of Pisa, Bartolomeo Chorbinelli and Giuliano Biliotti, of Florence, and others; 15 Oct. 1409. Ital. f. i. 2. "Anna de Chippr...
INSTRUCTIONS of Pope Clement VIII. to his envoys; in Italian:- 1. The envoy to Ferrara, with other papers relating to the duchies of Ferrara and Modena; [1594], f. 1. 2. Mons. Doria [? Joanettino Doria, afterwards Cardinal], Commissary to the Camp of Hungary; Rome, 5 July, 1594, f. 9. 3. Th...
1. "APOLOGIA di Lorenzo di Pier Francesco de' Medici [Lorenzino de' Medici, Duke of Florence] nella quale tratta dell' omicidio fatto da lui nella persona del Duca Alessandro [de' Medici] Primo, Duca di Firenze," f. 1. 2. "Istoria, o per dir meglio, ragguaglio della legatione fatta in nel Regn...