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11. Add MS 8274

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VISCONTI LETTER-BOOK and MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and tracts relating to the Papacy, Spain, Venice, Cyprus, and the League against the Turks during the papacy of Pius V (1566-1572); circa 1550-1572. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The first part of the MS. (ff. 2-257) contains the second and third part of the letter-book of Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia and minister of Pope Pius IV at the concluding sessions of the Council of Trent (29 May 1562 - 6 Sept. 1563). The...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-257 Letterbooks: Council of Trent: Carlo Visconti, Bishop of Ventimiglia; Cardinal 1563: Letter-Book (parts 2-3) of Carlo Visconti: 1563: Ital: Copy. ff. 92-257 Saint Carlo Borromeo,; Archbishop of Milan; Cardinal 1560: Di...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

12. Add MS 8276

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and peace treaties relating to the Papacy, Switzerland, Cyprus, France, Naples, Genoa, Corsica, Piacenza, the German Empire, England, Spain, Tivoli, and Venice; circa 1361, 1514-1570. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - (a) tract relating to the sede vacante (ff. 2-15v); - (b) tract relating to the election of Pope Sixtus IV, in Latin (ff. 16-27); - (c) heads of agreement for the League between Pope Leo X and the...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 16-27 Sixtus IV; Pope: Tract rel. to his election: circa 1471: Lat: Copy. ff. 28-40v Treaties: Leo X; Pope: Switzerland: League between Leo X and Swiss Cantons: 1514: Ital: Copy. ff. 41-57v Cyprus: Nicosia, Cyprus: Relazione...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

13. Add MS 8281

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, letters, sermons, and political, philosophical and religious tracts relating to England, France, Spain, Genoa, Cyprus, the Papacy, and Tuscany; circa 1554-1559. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes an anonymous relazione of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, entitled 'Ritratti del Regno d'Inghilterra' (ff. 202-224), inc. 'La Regina d'Inghilterra è successivamente hereditaria', another copy of which in Add. 8262 ...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: Colonna Library: 18th cent. includes: ff. 2-49v Ceremonials: France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Giacomo Aloisi: Ambassadors: Treatise rel. to ambassadorial precedence at the Papal Court attributed to Giacomo Aloisi: aft. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

14. Add MS 8289

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A COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts mostly relating to the history of the Church; circa 1602-1704. Italian, Latin and Greek. Partly printed. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). Stamp (f. i) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. 'D.V.2' and 'LXXXI' in pencil on f. i. '290' in pencil at center of f. i. Purchased, together with Add. 8344, 8358, 8433, 8688, 8788, and possibly 8416, from R. ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Church of Rome: Miscellaneous tracts mostly rel. to the history of the Church: 17th-18th cent: Ital, Lat and Gr. Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Greek, Modern, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1602-1704
Extent:
1 item

15. Add MS 8550

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RELATIONS BY VENETIAN AMBASSADORS and other papers relating to Savoy; 1573-1743. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Savoy by the Venetian Ambassadors Francesco da Molin (art. 1, ff. 1-16), Francesco Barbaro (art. 2, ff. 17-51), Girolamo Lippomano (art. 3, ff. 52-81v), Francesco Priuli (art. 5, ff. 84-136v), and Marco Foscarini (art. 13, ff. 213-278v). It also includes a copy of an undated agreement between the King of Spain and the Swiss Cantons (art. 4, ff. 82-83)...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Duchy of Savoy: Kingdom of Sardinia: Relations by Venetian ambassadors and other papers rel. to: 1573-1743: Ital: Copies. includes: ff. 1-16 Francesco da Molin, Venetian Ambassador; Doge of Venice 1646: Relazione of Savoy: [1574]: Ital: Copy. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, and Italian
Date Range:
1573-1743
Extent:
1 item

16. Add MS 8591

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Relazioni and papers relating to Venice, Cyprus, and Spain; 2nd half of 16th cent.-early 18th cent. Italian. Copies. The MS. is described by C. Foligno, ‘Codici di materia veneta nelle biblioteche inglesi’, in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., 6, xii (1906), pt. i, no. cvi, pp. 192-193, and listed in Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68b. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark L/19/B (front pastedown). '336' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together wit...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/B): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 1-76v Venice: Benedetto Moro, Venetian officer: Relazione of Venetian mainland by Benedetto Moro: 1607: Ital: Copy. ff. 77-102 Francis I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Francesco Marcaldi, of Venice: Relazione of Cypru...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
2nd half of the 16th century-Early 18th century
Extent:
1 item

17. Add MS 8630

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FLORIO BUSTRON: Historia overo Commentarii de Cipro; 16th cent. Italian. Copy, late 18th cent. A chronicle of the island of Cyprus composed in the 16th cent. by Florio Bustron, a Cypriot counsellor to the Venetian governors of the island, who died in 1570 during the siege of Nicosia by the Turks. The chronicle gives a detailed account of the history of the Kingdom of Cyprus from its origins to 1489, when the island was peacefully consigned to the Republic of Venice by Caterina Corner, the Ve...
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Bindings: Quarter vellum with brown paper covers over pasteboards: early 19th cent. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Cyprus: Chronicles: Florio Bustron, of Cyprus; chronicler: Chronicle of Cyprus to 1489 by Florio Bustron: 16th cent.: Ital: Copy, late 18th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

18. Add MS 8631

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ANTONIO COLBERTALDI: Life of Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus; 1st half 16th cent. Italian and Latin. Copy, after 1733 (see art. e, ff. 126-128). Caterina Corner (1454-1510), daughter of the Venetian nobleman Marco Corner, was formally adopted by the Republic and married to James II the Bastard, King of Cyprus. Following King James's death she was forced by the Venetians to abdicate in favor of the Republic in 1489. This account of her life was written by Antonio Colbertaldi (1476-1553), a l...
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Caterina Corner, Queen of Cyprus: Life by A. Colbertaldi: mid 16th cent.: Ital: Copy, aft. 1733. Bindings ITALIAN: Vellum on pasteboards: aft. 1733. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: Bernardo di Antonio Nani: circa 1733-1761. Venice: Cyp...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
after 1733
Extent:
1 item

19. Add MS 8632

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ASCANIO SAVORGNAN, Relazione of Cyprus; 1572. Italian. Copy, probably the presentation copy of the relazione sent to Baron Sfondrati by Francesco Marcaldi on 30 July 1572. The text is a full report of the military situation and the state of affairs of the island, inc. (f. 5) 'In altre è stato esposto in quai termini', expl. (f. 57v) 'si potria entrar'à imprese di gran' merito, et gloriose'. The report is preceded by a long title (f. 2) 'Discrittione delle cose di Cipro con le ragioni in favo...
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Francesco Marcaldi, of Venice: Baron Sfondrati: Relazione of Cyprus by A. Savorgnan: circa 1570: Ital: Copy sent to Baron Sfondrati by F. Marcaldi in 1572. Bindings ITALIAN: Gilt-tooled red morocco on pasteboards: 1572: Ital. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/C): bef. 1828...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1572
Extent:
1 item

20. Add MS 8633

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Title:
RELAZIONI AND PAPERS RELATING TO CYPRUS, VENICE, AND SPAIN; late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Imperfect. The MS. is described by Foligno, anno 6, t. xi (1906), pt. ii, no. xcviii, p. 186. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/19/B' (front pastedown). '361' in ink in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8629, 8630, 8331, and 8635, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 361 (part). 1. ff. 1-32v. 'Relatione della copiosa discretione d...
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Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/19/B): bef. 1828. includes: ff. 1-32v Francis I; Grand Duke of Tuscany: Francesco Marcaldi, of Venice: Relazione of Cyprus by A. Savorgnan: circa 1570: Ital: Copy sent to Francis I of Tuscany by F. Marcaldi. ff. 1-32v Military Tactics: Venice...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

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