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Name Urban VIII, Pope

21. Add MS 8320

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, and Portugal; circa 1634-1640. Italian, Spanish and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes (arts. 7-8) three texts relating to oneiromancy or dream interpretation. Two frontispieces with pen decoration (ff. 309, 323). Table of contents (f. 1), added later by same hand as in Add. 8322 and 8324. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. LXXXVI' in lower right corner of f. i, and '530' in ink in fourth spine compartment: i...
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Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to Spain, Germany and Portugal: circa 1634-1640: Ital: Copies. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-32 Philip IV of Spain: Relazione of Spain: 1638: Ital: Copy. ff. 33-48 Johann Anthon I von Eggenberg, Prince; Duke of Crumau; Imperia...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1634-1640
Extent:
1 item

22. Add MS 8323

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DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI relating to the peace congress in Cologne during the Thirty Years War and the mission of Cardinal Legate Marzio Ginetti; 1636-1641. Italian and Latin. Copies. In 1635 Cardinal Ginetti was appointed by Urban VIII as legatus a latere at Cologne to preside over a peace congress between France, Spain, and Germany. He left Rome only in 1636. After four years of fruitless efforts to organise the congress he was called back to Italy in 1640 and his mission was ...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to his peace mission to Cologne: 1636-1641: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Cologne, Germany: Diplomatic instructions and relazioni rel. to the congress of Cologne...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1636-1641
Extent:
1 item

23. Add MS 8324

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes: - (a) oration (art. 6) on the Sack of Rome by Giovanni Stafileo, Bishop of Sibenik, 1528; - (b) letter (art. 7) from Pierre Seguier, Chancellor of France, to Cardinal Louis de Nogaret d'Epernon de La Valette, Archbishop of Toulouse, relating to...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Miscellany rel. to the Papal Court: circa 1623-1644: Ital. and Lat.: Copies. includes: ff. 113-118 Clement VII; Pope: Johannes Staphyleus, Bishop of Sibenik: Oration on the Sack of Rome by Johannes Staphyleus: 1528: Lat: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1623-1644
Extent:
1 item

24. Add MS 8326

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of treatises relating to dynastic, administrative and ambassadorial matters involving the Papal Court, Naples and Sicily, Spain, and France, during the papacies of Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII; circa 1623-1667. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes (art. 1) a discourse relating to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, written by Giovanni Ciampoli (1590-1643). Another copy of this text in Vienna, Österreichische...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-98 Innocent II; Pope: Giovanni Ciampoli, Papal secretary and poet: Roger II of Naples and Sicily: Treatise rel. to the investiture of Roger II as King of Sicily by Innocent II in 1139, by Giovanni Ciampoli: bef. 1643: Ital: Copy. f...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Spanish
Date Range:
c 1623-1667
Extent:
1 item

25. Add MS 8348

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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to Rome, France, the Valtelline, and Venice during the papacy of Urban VIII; circa 1623-1644. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. ii), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CI' in upper right corner of f. i: identifiable with Mattei MS. 545 (vol. 101 of 'Materie diverse') in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '107' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purcha...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Political Tracts: Political treatises and instructions rel. to France, the Valtelline, and Venice during his papacy: 1623-1644: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-38v Nicolò Zambeccari, Secretary of the Congregation of Bishops and Reg...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1623-1644
Extent:
1 item

26. Add MS 8370

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BAGLIONI LETTER-BOOK: Registers of dispatches to and from Malatesta Baglioni, Bishop of Pesaro, as papal nuncio to the Emperor Ferdinand II (8 Sept. 1634 - 8 Aug. 1639); 1634-1637. Italian. Copies. The register contains mostly copies of dispatches that were originally sent in cipher to Baglioni by other papal nuncios. The dispatches are divided chronologically into six books; the last seventh book (ff. 125v-129) contains a few dispatches from Baglioni to other nuncios, dated 27 Dec. 1634 - 1...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent. Urban VIII; Pope: Letter-book of M. Baglioni as papal nuncio: 1634-1637: Ital: Copies. Malatesta Baglioni, Bishop of Pesaro; Bishop of Assisi: Letter-book: 1634-1637: Ital: Copies.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1634-1637
Extent:
1 item

27. Add MS 8371

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LIVES OF THE CARDINALS during the Pontificate of Innocent X together with Bulls of Urban VIII; 1634-1642, n.d. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Printed material with Barberini’s coat of arms. Table of contents (f. 1v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. ‘556’ in pencil in upper left corner of pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 556. Paper; ff. 142+i, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 116. Modern foliation in pencil 1-1...
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Bindings: Vellum: 18th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: early 19th cent. includes: ff. 2-116 Innocent X; Pope: La Statera de Purpurati under Innocent X: circa 1644-1655: Ital. ff. 117-120 Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Constitutio super residencia Episcoporum, Archep...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

28. Add MS 8372

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PAPERS relating to the dispute between Urban VIII and Odoardo Farnese; 1641-1645. Italian and Latin. Papers relating to the dispute between Pope Urban VIII (1623-1644) and the Duke Odoardo Farnese (1622-1646) over territories in the Duchy of Parma and Piacenza. The dispute was the cause of the so-called War of Castro between the Papacy and the League formed by Odoardo Farnese, Duke Ferdinand II of Tuscany, Duke Francis I of Modena, and the Republic of Venice. Many of the collected papers rel...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum, gilt-tooled, restored: mid 17th cent. Genoa; Doges of: Papers rel. to the dispute between Urban VIII and the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1643: Ital. and Lat: Copies. Urban VIII; Pope: Papers rel. to the dispute with the Duke of Parma and Piacenza: 1641-1645:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1641-1645
Extent:
1 item

29. Add MS 8392

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HISTORICAL PAPERS relating to Rome; 1624-1654. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies. The volume includes reports about the succession of Mantua; relazione of events in Rome from January 1635 to September 1643 by Monsignor Giovan Battista Spada; reply to the Duke of Modena about his claims to the Duchy of Ferrara and other domains of the Church; correspondence between the Holy See and Spain about misuse of power by representatives of the Church in Spain; memorial of events in the life of Franc...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/E): bef. 1828. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Urban VIII; Pope: Church of Rome: History of Rome: 1624-1654: Ital., Lat. and Span. includes: ff. 1-74v Duchy of Mantua: Relazioni of the succession of Mantua: 1624-1630: Ital...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, Latin, and Spanish
Date Range:
1624-1654
Extent:
1 item

30. Add MS 8398

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Relazioni of Rome; vol. i; 1535-1660. Paper; ff. 462, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 272. Composite volume: arts. 1, 2, and 4 marked respectively with initials 'D', 'D', 'H' in black ink in upper right corner of first leaves. Modern foliation '1-451' (followed here), omitting no. 126 and on...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1535-1660
Extent:
1 item