Add MS 8266

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of summaries of peace treaties, tracts, letters, memorials, papal instructions and accounts of conclaves relating to the Papacy, Siena, the German Empire, Florence, Savoy, and Naples; circa 1447-1569. Latin and Italian. Copies. The first part of the MS. (ff. 3-44) contains summaries of peace treaties and league pacts agreed by European rulers 1510-1559, in Latin and Italian. It also includes: - (a) declarations by the condottiere Piero Strozzi relating to his role in the war of Siena, circa 1554-1555, in Italian (ff. 45-52v, 52v-55, 55-59), a copy of the first declaration in Add. 8299 (art. 2, ff. 82-89v); - (b) political tract relating to the dependence of the German Empire on the Holy See, n.d., in Italian (ff. 60-64v), other copies of which in Add. 8262 (art. nn, ff. 544-547), 14099 (ff. 276v-281), and Royal 14.A.XXI (ff. 253-258v), printed in Thesoro Politico (Cologne, 1589, sig. L iii-L iv, B.L. copy 521.d.14; Cologne, 1598, pp. 142-146, B.L. copy 521.c.19; Milan, 1600, pp. 421-424, B.L. copy 29.b.13); a longer tract, n.d., in Latin, in Add. 8265 (art. e, ff. 206-229v); - (c) two tracts, respectively on patriarchal privileges and donations to the Holy See, n.d., in Latin (ff. 65-69, 70-77v): other copies in Add. 8268 (art. g, ff. 54-56v, and art. p, ff. 174-179); - (d) correspondence between Cosimo I Grand Duke of Florence and Emanuel Philibert Duke of Savoy, 1569, in Italian (ff. 78-79v), another copy of which in Add. 8262 (art. f, ff. 222-223v); - (e) memorial from Florentine exiles in Naples to the Emperor Charles V, 1536, in Italian (ff. 80-81v), another copy of which in Add. 16493 (ff. 68-68v); - (f) excerpt from the diary of the apostolic secretary Jacopo Gherardi da Volterra (1434-1516), relating to the death of Pope Sixtus IV, 1484, in Latin (ff. 82-85v), followed by the note (f. 85v) 'Originale est in Bibliotheca Vaticana', published as Jacobi Volaterrani Diarium Romanum ab anno 1472 usque ad 1484 in L. A. Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, t. xxiii (Milan, 1723), coll. 198-200; reprinted by E. Carusi as Il diario romano di Jacopo Gherardi da Volterra dal VII settembre MCCCCLXXIX al XII agosto MCCCCLXXXIV, in L. A. Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, 2nd ed., t. xxiii, pt. iii (Città di Castello, 1904), pp. 135-137: for Jacopo Gherardi see DBI, 53 (1999), pp. 573-576; - (g) instructions from Pope Paul III and political advise to Giovanni Morone, Bishop of Modena, appointed nuncio to Germany, 1536, in Latin (ff. 86-91v, 92-97v), published from original and copies in the Vatican Archive and Library by W. Friedensburg in Nuntiaturberichte aus Deutschland 1533-1559. Nuntiatur des Morone 1536-1538, part i, vol. ii (Gotha, 1892), pp. 58-65; - (h) account of the conclave for the election of Pius V, 1566, in Italian (ff. 98-135v): another copy in Add. 8397 (art. 13, ff. 94-101); - (i) account of the conclave for the election of Marcellus II, 1555, in Italian (ff. 136-147v): for closely related versions of the account see Add. MS. 8412 (art. 17, ff. 176-183), 8414 (art. 1(xvii), ff. 106-109v), 8418 (art. 6, ff. 112-117); - (j) account of the conclave for the election of Paul II, 1464, in Latin (ff. 148-150v): another copy in Add. 48073 (art. 6, ff. 146-159v); for other accounts in Italian see also Add. 8412 (art. 6, ff. 83-85), 8413 (art. 5, ff. 53-55) 8414 (art. 1(vi), ff. 47-48v), 8416 (art. 3, ff. 14-18v), 8417 (art. 5(iv), ff. 143-147v); a printed version in Conclavi, pp. 59-61; - (k) account of the conclave for the election of Clement VII, 1523, in Latin (ff. 151-154v): for other accounts see Add. 8412 (art. 14, ff. 129-151); - (l) account of the conclave for the election of Calixtus III, 1455, in Latin (ff. 155-162v): for other accounts see Add. 8412 (art. 4, ff. 63-68); - (m) oration offered to the Emperor Frederick III by Enea Silvo Piccolomini relating to the death of Pope Eugenius IV and the election of Nicholas V, 1447, in Latin (ff. 163-210v), followed by notes on Piccolomini: another copy in Add. 48073 (Yelverton MS. 79; art. 3, ff. 67-121), printed in Muratori, Rerum Italicarum Scriptores, vol. iii, pt. ii (Milan, 1734), col. 878-893. Table of contents (ff. 1-2), added later. Marked '5' in ink at centre of lower edge. Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. ii, iii, 141, vi (verso); for the Colonna library stamp see Bragaglia, vol. iii, T 32: circa 1750. From the library of Cardinal Giuseppe Renato Imperiali, according to a note in Evans sale catalogue at lot 284. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '284' and 'Tomo V / A' in pencil in right margin of f. ii. Purchased, together with Add. 8262-8265, 8267-8281, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 284 (part).

Paper; ff. 210+vi, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 59, 64, 69, 150. Old foliation in ink '1-214' (ff. 3-210, iv-v), including blanks. Composite volume. 268 x 205mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. Three Italian hands.