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31. Add MS 8499

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Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions. Book. xvi; n.d. Inc. (f. 2) 'La Chiesa della Madonna Santissima dell'Anima'. Table of contents (f. 1). A note (f. 363v) referring to Giovanni Clerici. Ownership note (f. 1) of Cardinal Cesare Rasponi. Old shelfmark in ink 'H.III.57' on f. i. Trace of old ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1657-1658
Extent:
1 item

32. Add MS 8500

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Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions. Book. xvii. Imperfect. Title (f. i) 'Libro xvii'. Inc. (f. 2) 'La Chiesa di San Biagio porta vicino la Pace'. Later note (f. 18) on loss of leaves foliated '17-25'. Table of contents (f. 1), with missing parts crossed out. A later note (f. 18) refers the ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1657-1658
Extent:
1 item

33. Add MS 8500*

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Collection of Epitaphs and Inscriptions: Table of contents; 20th cent. Paper; ff. 10. Typescript. Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum, restored: 1657-1658. Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Inscriptions: Gaspare Alveri, of Rome; Antiquarian and Geographer: Giorgio Ridolfo Ebmer, scribe: Collection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
1657-1658
Extent:
1 item

34. Add MS 8501

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COLLECTION of epitaphs in the Capitol and churches of Rome; 17th cent. Italian and Latin. Inc. (f. 2) 'Corpo di San Bartolomeo Apostolo', expl. (f. 405) 'S. Pauli Apostoli ... mirabiliter eruperunt'. Mostly one epitaph per leaf. Contemporary table of contents (f. 1). Old shelfmark in brown ink 'no. 1682' in upper left corner of front pastedown. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '598' in pencil in front pastedown. Purchased from R. H. Evans, t...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent. Epitaphs: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Collection of Roman epitaphs: 17th cent.: Ital. and Lat.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

35. Add MS 8502

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DESCRIPTION of the Chapel of St. Charles in St. Mary in Vallicella at Rome; 1679. Italian. Copy. Anonymous description of the Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo in the Roman church of St. Mary in Vallicella (also known as the Chiesa Nuova). The description was offered to Cardinal César d'Estrées, Bishop of Laon, in 1679, and the present MS. was possibly the presentation copy. The Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo was built for Marquis Orazio Spada between 1663 and 1679 by the Roman architects Camil...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Saint Carlo Borromeo,; Archbishop of Milan; Cardinal 1560: Description of the Chapel of St. Charles in St. Mary in Vallicella (Rome): 1679: Ital: Copy. César d' Estrées, Bishop of Laon; Cardinal 1672...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
1679
Extent:
1 item

36. Add MS 8503

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COLLECTION OF TEXTS relating to the Trevi Fountain in Rome; circa 1732-1768. Italian. Copies and drafts. The texts relate to the Trevi Fountain, one of the most famous baroque monuments in Rome, commissioned in 1732 by Pope Clement XII (1730-1740), designed by the Roman architect Niccolò Salvi (1697-1751). After Salvi's death the fountain was completed by Giuseppe Pannini, and inaugurated in 1761. The collection was put together by an admirer of Salvi's work (using the pseudonym of 'Filarete...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Architecture: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: 'Filarete', Pseudonym: Collection rel. to the Trevi Fountain and N. Salvi put together by `Filarete': circa 1732-1768: Ital: Copies and drafts. includes: ff. 2-3 Berardo Galliani, Marquis: Letter to...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
c 1732-1768
Extent:
1 item

37. Add MS 8513

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PIRRO LIGORIO: Description of Tivoli and its villas; mid 16th cent. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. The description of the town of Tivoli and its Roman villas written by Pirro Ligorio (circa 1510-1583), architect and garden designer, painter, and antiquarian from Naples. Ligorio started escavating in Tivoli in 1549 at request of the governor of the town, Cardinal Ippolito d'Este (1509-1572). The text in the present MS. is a shorter version of that in Add. 22001, ff. 2-42. The MS. is listed in Palm...
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent. Architecture: Archaeology: Antiquities: Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Ippolito II d' Este, Cardinal of Ferrara; Archbishop of Milan: Pirro Ligorio, Architect and Antiquarian: Tivoli, Italy: Description of Tivoli and its villas addressed to Card. d'E...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
18th century
Extent:
1 item

38. Add MS 8792

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ARCIADE [OR ARGIADE] EPIDAURIO P. A. [I.E. VINCENZO GREGORIO LAVAZZOLI]: Treatise on wedding rites in ancient Rome; late 18th cent. Italian. Copy. Imperfect. According to the list of arcadi given by A. M. Giorgetti Vichi in Gli arcadi dal 1690 al 1800. Onomasticon (Rome, 1977), p. 28, Arciade or Argiade Epidaurio was the name used by the domenican friar Vincenzo Gregorio Lavazzoli in the Academia of Arcadia, of which he became member between 1791-1800. In fact the text is a short version of ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef.1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford: bef. 1828. Floriano Malvezzi, Primicerius of Bologna Cathedral: Treatise on wedding rites in ancient Rome, here attr. to Arciade Epidaurio by Floriano Malvezzi: late 18th cent.: Ital: Copy. Ancient...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 18th century
Extent:
1 item

39. Add MS 8793

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MARCO ANTONIO ALTIERI: Li Nuptiali; late 15th-early 16th cent. Italian. Copy, late 16th cent. Dialogue on wedding rituals in Renaissance Rome by the Roman officer and historian Marco Antonio Altieri (1450-1532); cf. DBI, 2 (1960), pp. 560-561. The dialogue was first published as Li Nuptiali di Marco Antonio Altieri pubblicati da Enrico Narducci (Rome, 1873) from the autograph MS. in the Altieri library, now lost or untraceable. The present MS. was mentioned by Narducci in the list of MSS. of...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Ancient and Modern. City of Rome: Marco Antonio Altieri, of Rome: Li Nuptiali by Marco Antonio Altieri: late 15th-early 16th cent.: Ital: Copy, late 16th cent.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
Late 16th century
Extent:
1 item

40. Add MS 8808

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COLLECTION OF POLITICAL TREATISES; late 15th-18th cent. Latin, Italian, and French. Partly autograph. Acquisition note (f. 17) relating to art. 4 (ff. 18-59v) 'Comperato nella vendita dei libri del Commendator Buondelmonti'. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/17/A' (front pastedown). '521' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8761, 8762, 8809, and 8810, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 521 (part). Paper; ff. 59+ii, plus ...
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Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828. Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/17/A): bef. 1828. Political Tracts: Collection of: late 15th-18th cent.: Lat., Ital., and Fr: Partly autograph. includes: ff. 1-6 Ermolao Barbaro, Venetian Ambassador and Patriarch of Aquileia:...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, French, Italian, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 15th century-18th century
Extent:
1 item

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