Search

Place Rome, Italy

1. Add Ch 66715

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Ch 66715
Title:
Bull of Pope Adrian IV granting privileges to Neasham Priory
Scope & Content:
Bull of Pope Adrian IV (r. 1154-1159), at the instance of the nuns of Neasham Priory (County Durham), confirming the foundation of the house and its possessions, listing and confirming previous donations to the priory, exempting the priory from tithes from the food for their animals or from the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
3 Feb 1157
Extent:
1 leaf

2. Add MS 6156

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 6156
Title:
GOSPELS: from the church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome; late 11th cent. Latin. Origin: Italy. The gospel lections include two stations at Sta Maria Trastevere (ff. 9, 15) and the lection for the Feast of St Callixtus, Pope, patron of the church (ff. 9, 15). This MS. has been dated and fully described, with particular reference to the illumination, in J. Alexander, 'A manuscript of the Gospels from Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome', Studien zur mittelalterlichen Kunst 800-1250. Festschrif...
Scope & Content:
Art. Illuminations and Drawings ITALIAN: Gospels: Canon tables, Gospel openings, initials, marginal sketches: late 11th cent. Liturgies LATIN: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Gospels from Sta Maria in Trastavere: late 11th cent: Lat. includes: f. 1 Sir George Howland Beaumont, 7th Baronet; ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 8255

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8255
Title:
Scope & Content:
UNIVERSAL HISTORY, book 1, volume 3. From the time of Emperor Augustus to the death of Emperor Theodosius I in 395. Inc. ‘Se le variate peripezie della Republica’, expl. ‘Epifanio, Efrem, Anfilochio, Filastrio, e molti altri’. ff. 386. Old pagination in ink '1-769', beginning on f. 2. 243 x 170...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 8256

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8256
Title:
Scope & Content:
UNIVERSAL HISTORY, book 1, volume 4. From the death of Emperor Theodosius I in 395 to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Inc. ‘In vista delle disposizioni di Teodosio’, expl. ‘piccoli Governi di si vasta Monarchia’. ff. 405. Old pagination in ink '1-804', beginning on f. 2. 243 x 170mm. Runnin...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
2nd half of the 18th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 8276

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8276
Title:
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...
Scope & Content:
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

6. Add MS 8286

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8286
Title:
COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating to the history of the Roman Church and political affairs in 16th- and 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1554-1695. Italian, Latin, and French. Table of contents (ff. 1-2v). 'D.V.7' and 'LXXVIII' in pencil, and stamp 'biblioth / h.f. / J770' on f. i: identifiable with Falconieri MS. 78 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 26v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in penci...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 11-17 Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Pius IV; Pope: Relazione of Pius IV's restoration of the Trevi Fountain: circa 1560-1563: Ital: Copy. ff. 34-37v...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1554-1695
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 8288

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8288
Title:
COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, wills and other papers relating to the history of the Church in Italy and Bavaria, and to the lives of Cardinals Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri, Reginald Pole, Alessandro Cesarini, and Flavio Chigi; circa 1542-1710. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed (ff. 192-203v). The collection contains (ff. 2-65) papers relating the dispute between Cardinal Paluzzo Paluzzi Altieri degli Albertoni, nephew and prime minister of Pope Clement X (1670-1676), and the French amb...
Scope & Content:
Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat. Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828. includes: ff. 2-65 Pietro Mocenigo, Venetian Ambassador at Rome 1672: François Annibal II d' Estrées, Duc; Maréchal; Ambassador at Rome: Johann Eberhard von Neidhart, Jesuit; Gener...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1542-1710
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 8313

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8313
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Father Nicolò Ridolfi, the burial place of St. Peter and the League against the Turks signed in 1571 by Venice, Spain, and the Holy See, during the papacy of Pius V; circa 1570-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LX' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '504' in ink in fifth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 504 (vol. 60 of 'Memorie diverse') in Guilford's c...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-72v Father Niccolò Ridolfi, General of the Dominicans: Papers rel. to the ecclesiastical court case against: [1643]: Ital. and Lat: Copies. ff. 73-102 Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Michele Lonigo, Deputy Prefect o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
c 1570-1644
Extent:
1 item

9. Add MS 8316

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8316
Title:
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portugal and the election of King John IV. The MS. also includes (art. 6, ff. 105-121v) an anonymous relazione of the devastation of Rome by the Gauls under their leader Brennus in 390 B.C. Pen-decorated frontispieces (ff. 79, 148, 182), and family tre...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent. includes: ff. 2-23v Political Tracts: Genoa; Doges of: Ambassadors: Tracts rel. to ambassadorial precedence for the Genoese ambassadors: 1st half 17th cent.: Ital: Copies. ff. 45-63v City of Ferrara: Political Tracts: Venice: Tracts rel. to territ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1640-1643
Extent:
1 item

10. Add MS 8364

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8364
Title:
DIARIO OF MARCELLO ALBERINI (1521-1535); 18th cent. Italian. Marcello Alberini, the son of a Roman citizen, began writing his account of the events surrounding the sack of Rome of 1527 on 1 January 1547, for the benefit of his children. Alberini combines his private memoirs with an account of public events in Italy, and particularly in Rome, during the reign of Pope Clement VII. See D. Orano, Il Sacco di Roma del m.d.xxvij. Studi e Documenti, vol. 1, I Ricordi di Marcello Alberini (Rome, 190...
Scope & Content:
Bindings ITALIAN: Vellum over pasteboards: 18th cent. Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Marcello Alberini, alderman of 'Monti' ward, Rome: Diaries and Memoranda: Diario, partly rel. to the sack of Rome: 18th cent.: Ital.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

Limit your search

more »

more »
more »
more »
more »