Add MS 8267

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and financial accounts relating to the Papacy, Venice, France, Spain, Tunisia, Ethiopia, and England; circa 1532-1573. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (ff. 231-232v) the final sentence pronounced by Pope Clement VII refusing divorce to Henry VIII from Catherine of Aragon, annulling his marriage to Anne Boleyn, restoring Catherine to her royal state, and excommunicating the king, 11 July 1533, in Latin, inc. 'La sentenza d'Inghilterra / Clemens Papa VII / Cum pendente lite coram nobis dilecto filio Paulo Capisucchio', expl. 'et dicta attemptata cum effectu non purgaverit, ex nunc pro ut ex tunc presenti declarationi locum esse volumus et decernimus / Ita pronunciamus': published in Doctissimi ... N. Sanderi de origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani liber. Continens historiam maxime ecclesiasticam annorum circiter sexaginta ... Editus et auctus per E. Rishtonum (Cologne, 1585), pp. 67-69, B.L. copies C.37.d.27, 698.c.44.(2), G.11871, and in Doctissimi ... N. Sanderi de origine ac progressu Schismatis Anglicani libri tres... (Rome, 1586), pp. 111-113, B.L. copy G.11872; see also N. Pocock, Records of the Reformation. The Divorce 1527-1533, vol. ii (Oxford, 1870), pp. 677-678, no. xxxiv, and S. Ehses, Römische Dokumente ... Heinrichs VIII von England 1527-1534 (Paderborn, 1893), pp. 212-213, no. 135. The MS. also includes: - (a) relazione of the Congress of Nice, by the Venetian ambassadors Niccolò Tiepolo and Marcantonio Cornaro, 12 June 1538 (ff. 2-53v), other copies of which in Add. 8398 (art. 2, ff. 39-92) and 48080 (Yelverton MS. 87; art. 3, ff. 29-56); - (b) relazione of Tunis offered to Marcello Melchiorri by Giuseppe Terla, 1573 (ff. 54-99v); - (c) relazione of France by Giovanni Corner, 1570 (ff. 100-174v), other copies of which in Add. 8355 (art. 7, ff. 164-182), 14099 (ff. 150-245), 16517 (ff. 349-389), Eg. 1087 (ff. 1-55), Lansdowne 840 B (art. 9, ff. 155-175, previous foliation 158-177, dated 1571), published by Albèri, ser. i, vol. iv (1860), pp. 177-226; - (d) relazione of Venice offered to the King of Spain, after 1555 (ff. 175-208), other copies of which in Add. 8591 (art. 3, ff. 103-122v) and 8633 (art. 2, ff. 33-55); - (e) memorial relating to annual Spanish revenues from ecclesiastical institutions, circa 1560 (ff. 208v-214v), other copies of which in Add. 8591 (art. 4, ff. 122v-128), and 8633 (art. 3, ff. 55-61v), and Eg. 1087 (ff. 66-71, pp. 132-142); - (f) tract relating to the election of Popes and cardinals, n.d. (ff. 215-221v), another copy of which in Add. 8268 (art. f, ff. 50-53v); - (g) questioning by Pope Paul III of Matteo, ambassador of the King of Ethiopia, the so-called Prester John, n.d. (ff. 223-230), another copy of which in B.L. Facs. *368 (art. 3) from Rome, Bibl. Vat., Codex Misc. Arm. II. 10, ff. 444-451v; - (h) household accounts and payroll of the papal curia, circa 1564-1569 (ff. 233-294). Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Marked '5' in ink at centre of lower edge. Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. ii, 1, 294v; 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 VI / A' in pencil in right margin of f. ii. Purchased, together with Add. 8262-8266, 8268-8281, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 284 (part).

Paper; ff. 294+iv, plus one unfoliated blank after f. 174, two after f. 214. Old foliation in ink '1-296' (ff. 2-294), including blanks. 270 x 205mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand.