Add MS 8276

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, tracts, and peace treaties relating to the Papacy, Switzerland, Cyprus, France, Naples, Genoa, Corsica, Piacenza, the German Empire, England, Spain, Tivoli, and Venice; circa 1361, 1514-1570. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Imperfect. The MS. includes: - (a) tract relating to the sede vacante (ff. 2-15v); - (b) tract relating to the election of Pope Sixtus IV, in Latin (ff. 16-27); - (c) heads of agreement for the League between Pope Leo X and the Swiss cantons, 1514 (ff. 28-40v); - (d) relazione of the conquest of Nicosia on Cyprus, 1570 (ff. 41-57v); - (e) edict of King Charles IX of France, 1570, in Italian translation (ff. 58-85v); - (f) investiture of the Kingdom of Naples according to the librum bullarum of Clement VI and Innocent VI, 1361, in Latin (ff. 86-91v); - (g) heads of agreement between Andrea Doria, general of the imperial navy, and the Genoese society of the 'Compera di San Giorgio', relating to Corsica, 1554 (ff. 92-95): for Andrea Doria see Argegni, vol. i, pp. 307-310; DBI, 41 (1992), pp. 264-274; - (h) tract relating to Switzerland, 1570 (ff. 96-115); - (i) heads of agreement between the people of Piacenza and Don Ferrante Gonzaga, 1547 (ff. 116-117v); - (j) heads of agreement between the Emperor Charles V and Duke Maurice of Saxony, 1547 (ff. 118-122); - (k) relazione by Cardinal Girolamo Dandini, Bishop of Imola, of his embassy to the Emperor Charles V, 1553 (ff. 123-126v); - (l) heads of agreement between Pope Julius III and Cardinal François de Tournon, Bishop of Bourges and ambassador of King Henry II of France, 1552 (ff. 127-132v); - (m) edict by Queen Elizabeth I of England relating to the state of affairs of religion in her state, 1553 (ff. 133-136v); - (n) relazione of Spanish revenues, 1560 (ff. 137-139); - (o) Account of the state of affairs in the Kingdom of Naples by Giulio Cesare Caracciolo for his brother Ascanio, [1554] (ff. 140-170), of which other copies in Add. 8262 (art. i, ff. 490v-505v), 8591 (art. 5, ff. 129v-146), 8633 (art. 4, ff. 61v-81v), 8667 (art. 1, ff. 2-20v), and 48133 (Yelverton MS. 148), art. 14 (ff. 317-353v), Venice, Bibl. Marciana, MS. Ital. VI 310 (6150), ff. 3-35, and Vat. MS. Urb.lat. 824; - (p) treaty between the Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France, 1544 (ff. 171-178v); - (q) relazione of Tivoli and its antiquities by Pirro Ligorio addressed to Cardinal Ippolito d'Este, after 1549 (ff. 179-216v), of which another copy in Add. 22001 (ff. 2-42), and a shorter version in Add. 8513; - (r) relazione of Germany by Niccolò Tiepolo, 1532 (ff. 217-356v), of which a copy in Add. 16517 (ff. 93-161v), published in Albèri, s. i, vol. i (Florence, 1839), pp. 31-144; - (s) relazione of the peace congress between the Emperor Charles V and King Henry II of France, 1555 (ff. 357-366v). Lacks a relazione by Ascanio Savorgnan relating to Cyprus (original ff. '59-108'), listed in the table of contents (ff. 1-1v) added later. For copies of the missing text in other MSS. see Add. 8591 (art. 2, ff. 77-102), 8632, 8633 (art. 1, ff. 1-321v), 48148 (Yelverton MS 160; art. 7, ff. 63-82), Eg. 2859, and Oxford, Bodleian Lib., MS. Ital. e. 11. Marked '15' in ink at centre of lower edge. Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. iii, 1, 130, 366v, iv (verso); for the Colonna library stamp see Bragaglia, vol. iii, T 32: circa 1750. Previously believed to be 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' in pencil in upper right corner and 'Tomo XV / A' in pencil in lower margin of f. ii. Purchased, together with Add. 8262-8275, 8277-8281, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 284 (part).

Paper; ff. 367+iv, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 39, 57, 122, 139, 170, 216; lacking 51 leaves, corresponding to ff. '59-108' of the old foliation. Modern foliation in pencil '1-366' (followed here), repeating no. 193. Old foliation in ink '1-423' (ff. 2-366, iv), including blanks. 270 x 205mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. Several Italian hands.