'LA VERA FORMA e regola dell' eleggere e coronare in imperadori', &c., compiled in Italian by Petruccio Ubaldino (see 2 B. IX, &c.) from notes made at the coronation of Charles V by 'un certo nobil Todesco', now secretary of the archbishopric of Cologne. Dedicated as a new year's gift to...
PETRUCCIO UBALDINO, 'Commentario del successo dell' Armata Spagnola nell' assalir l'Inghilterra l'anno 1588', &c.; translated for [Charles Howard, 2nd Baron Howard of Effingham,] the Lord High Admiral, from the [official ?] account as contained in Cotton MS. Julius F. x, ff. 95-101. Curiousl...
ANOTHER NARRATIVE of the Armada by the same, entitled 'Comentario della impresa fatta contra il regno d'Inghilterra dal Re Catholico l'anno 1588', &c., written, at the request of Sir Francis Drake, in a more elaborate style. The date of the text is 15 Apr. 1589, like the preceding MS., but t...
'AVALIAÇÕES', or rate-book, of Villa Franca do Campo in the island of San Miguel, Azores, 1566, in Portuguese, certified throughout by Joao Usademar, judge of Ponte Delgada. Preceded by an index of names and copies of the royal order (dated 13 May, 1564) and other documents. Paper; ff. 119. Fol...
RELAZIONI of Venetian and other ambassadors, &c., circ. 1555-1586. In Italian, except art. 17. Artt. 1-8 and 10 occur also in a MS. at Oxford, Rawlinson D. 635. Contents: 1. Turkey, embassy of Giacomo Soranzo, sent from Venice to attend the festivities at the circumcision of Sultan Meheme...
JAMES I, 'Dichiaratione del serenissimo re della Gran Bretagna . . . per la ragione dei re et per la independenza delle loro corone', &c.: a translation into Italian by Giacopo Castelvetri of the reply to Cardinal Jacques Davy du Perron published by James in French (London, 1615) with the ai...
PETRUCCIO UBALDINO, 'Le Vite e i Fatti di sei Donne Illustri', dedicated as a new year's gift to Queen Elizabeth, 1577. Not the same as the printed Vive delle Donne Illustre, which is concerned with English ladies. The six here are mvthical or carly princesses, viz. Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, Cl...
RELAZIONI of ambassadors of Italian states, &c., circ.. 1546-1595, in Italian, viz.: 1. Muscovy, anonyrnous and undated [circ. 1555 ?]; cf. 14 A. XIII, art 5. ff. 1-40, 88-90 b (misbound). 2. 'Del preparamento della carauanna per il viaggio della Mecca': full description of the annual pil...
COPY-BOOK specimens of forty-eight styles of callignaphy by Petruccio Ubaldino (cf. 14 A. I, &c.),apparently intended for Edward VI and dated London, 20 JUIY, 1550. The examples are in Italian, French, and Lat"n. Some of the style are named, e.g. 'lettera mercantile' (f. 15) and 'Napolitana'...
TREATISES on political and philosophical subjects by the Dominican Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639), imprisoned by the Spaniards for a conspiracy against their rule in Naples 1599-1626, Cardinal Pietro Sforza Pallavicino (1607-1667), and others, circ. 1605-1630, viz.: 1. 'Discorso dell' illustris...