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1. Add MS 38881-38887

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Dowden Manuscripts
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Nos. 38881-38887 were purchased at the sale of the library of Professor Edward Dowden, M.A., Litt.D. (Hodgson sale-cat. 9 June, 1914). The first five formed lot 20.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
17th century-Early 19th century
Extent:
7 items

2. Add MS 38882

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"RELAZIONE d' Inghilterra e Scozia, 1606, Scritta da un Segretario dell' Illustrissimo Signore Pietro Duodo stato ambasciatore per la Signoria di Venezia appresso il Rè Jacomo," consisting of an introduction, beg. "Sono molti i quali a lo stato," and five chapters dealing successively with Irela...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Extent:
1 item

3. Add MS 38886

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"THE FORTUNE OF WAR, or a ten years Captivity in France, by Robert Bastard James, Lieut. in the Royal Navy" ; 1804-1814. Autograph. Preceded (f. 3) by a dedication to Vice-Admiral Sir George Cockburn, G.C.B., Lord of the Admiralty, dated 20 May, 1822. James was wrecked when in charge of a captur...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1822
Extent:
1 item

4. Add MS 38883

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"VITA e Pontificato di Papa Innocenzo X [1644-1655], divisa in Due Libri." Beg. "La lunghezza del Pontificato di Papa Urbano VIII," and ends abruptly with the heading "Origine del Conte Pezzola." The work is divided into two books, and the first book into two chapters. Much space is devoted to t...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

5. Add MS 38881

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"VITE di Pontefici, Cardinali, et altri Prencipi et huomini Illustri per santità, lettere, et arme, cavate da un manuscritto antichissimo. Tomo primo," beg. with Pope Eugenius IV and ending with Malraso Ceciliano. This collection of lives by the Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci (1421...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

6. Add MS 38885

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"MÉMOIRE, sur la déadence de la Religion et des Mœurs, et sur ce que l'on peut proposer pour la réparer," in two parts with index, preceded by an autograph letter of presentation, apparently to some Cardinal. The writer, who was just about to leave Italy, signs "Clement," with date, "Rome, Dim. ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1771
Extent:
1 item

7. Add MS 38884

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"RELAZIONE dell' Ambasciata straordinaria in Inghilterra al Rè Carlo Secondo, per congratulazione del ritorno al suo Regno, fatta dal Marchese Gio. Luca Durazzo, Ambasciatore della Republica di Genova, nel mese di Gennaro 1662," containing a detailed and interesting account of English affairs. B...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 item

8. Add MS 38887

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"TWO MEMORIALS of Hayley's Endeavours to serve his Friend Cowper," by William Hayley. Holograph. These memorials, especially the second, are treated by E. Dowden in The Atlantic Monthly, vol. c (1907), p. 74, and illustrated with many extracts. They comprise: (a) "A singular History in a Series ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1794-1809
Extent:
1 item