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Name Francesco Maria II, Duke of Urbino

1. Add MS 8292

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of religious, political and literary tracts, poems, and letters relating to Naples, Corsica, Florence, Poland, Sweden, and Austria; 15th cent-1794. Italian and Latin, Greek, and English. Copies, partly autograph or signed. The MS. includes: - (a) a fragment of Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, on vellum (art. 1, ff. 13-18v), late 15th-early 16th cent.; - (b) a poem (f. 34) on the Tyrrhenian Sea or Mare inferum, in Greek; - (c) a sonnet (art. 4, f. 40) by Vittorio Alf...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 13-18v Giovanni Boccaccio: De claris mulieribus, fragm.: late 15th - early 16th cent.: Lat: Copy. ff. 35-44 Carlo Vespasiano, Italian literary critic: Pietro Napoli Signorelli, Italian historian: Letters to Pietro Napoli Signorelli f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
15th century-1794
Extent:
1 item

2. 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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1542-1653
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8419

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ACCOUNTS OF CONCLAVES FROM INNOCENT IX TO GREGORY XV WITH OTHER MATERIAL RELATING TO EVENTS UNDER THE PONTIFICATE OF GREGORY XV; 1591-1623. Italian and Latin. Copies, woodcut portrait. One full-page woodcut portrait of Innocent IX (f. 1v) is prefaced to the account of the conclave which elected him. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '87' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8368, 8369, 8382, 8391-8396...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards: 18th cent. includes: f. 1v Innocent IX; Pope: Art. Portraits: Woodcut portrait of Pope Innocent IX: 17th cent: Lat: Printed. ff. 2-26v Innocent IX; Pope: Two accounts of conclave: 1591: Ital: Copies, 17th cent. ff. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8511

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LIVES of the Dukes of Urbino, and Accounts of the disputed right of succession to the duchy; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. The MS. contains: - (a) art. 1, ff. 1-88v, an anonymous life of Federico II da Montefeltro (1422-1482); - (b) art. 2, ff. 89-116, the autobiography of the last Duke Francesco Maria II della Rovere (1548-1631); - (c) art. 2, ff. 116-164v (following Francesco Maria's autobiography without break) the relazione of Urbino written for Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) by the Venetia...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Quarter vellum over pasteboards: early 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/20/B): bef. 1828. Urbino; Duchy of; in Italy: Biography: Lives of the Dukes of Urbino and Account of the Right of Succession to the Duchy: 17th cent.: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8688

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FILADELFO MUGNOS: Collection of fair copies of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers relating to successive Dukes of Vietri in the service of Philip II, III, and IV in Italy, 1555-1622; mid 17th cent. Spanish and Italian. Autograph. The MS. was compiled during the reign of Philip IV, 1621-1665 according to royal certification (f. 44). The MS. is described in Gayangos I, pp. 846-8. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in pencil ...
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Philip II of Spain: Philip IV of Spain: Philip III of Spain: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Filadelfo Mugnos, writer on Italian nobility and heraldry: Dukes of Vietri: Collection of diplomatic instructions, letters and other papers rel. to successive Dukes of Vietri in the servi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
Mid 17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 12038

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MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS and Dissertations, chiefly in Italian; amongst them are the following:-Discorso militare, al Signore Francisco Serdonati;-Lettera ad un prencipe Italiano, dat. Padova, 15 Sept. 1579 ; Orig.; - Epistola Johannis Baptistæ Dionisii ad Tiberium Jamnellum, dat. Perusiæ, id. Dec....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
16th century-17th century
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 18175

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"RACCONTO nel quale si veda il malitioso tradimento ordito dall' ingannevole prudenza delli Spagnuoli contra la Republica di Venetia, l'anno 1617;" with a letter of Francesco Maria, second Duke of Urbino, on occasion of sending the statue of Francesco Maria, first Duke, to the Republic, 1625. Ital. Paper; XVIIth cent. Folio. [Add. 18,175.]
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Venice: Account of the treachery of the Spanish against Venice: 1617.: Ital. Francesco Maria II della Rovere; Duke of Urbino: Letter on sending the statue of Francesco Maria I. to Venice: 1625.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 37762

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GRANT by Francisculs Maria Feltrius a Robore [Francesco Maria II. della Rovere], Duke of Urbino, to Euphrosyna Turturea Thomasia [? de' Thomasi] of Pesaro, formerly his nurse, and Comes Joannes [a Count Giovanni de' Thomasi was executed for homicide and sedition in Pesaro in 1586, see Dennistoun, Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, ed. 1851, iii. p. 150], Dominus Antonius Franciscus Maria, and Guidobaldus, her sons, in recognition of her and their services, particularly those of the second son, ...
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Francesco Maria II della Rovere; Duke of Urbino: Grant of immunity from taxes, etc., to E. T. de'Thomsi, his nurse, etc.,: 1582.: Lat.: Signature and arms. Guidobaldo de' Thomasi, of Pesaro: Grant to, of immunity from taxes, etc.: 1582.: Lat. Count Giovanni de' Thomasi,; of Pesaro: Grant to, o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
10 Mar 1582
Extent:
1 item