Add MS 8279

MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters, manifestos, proclamations, and treaties relating to the Papacy, England, Spain and the German Empire, France, Turkey, Cyprus, the Hospitaller Order and the Knights of Malta, Urbino, Austria, Milan, and Venice; circa 1523-1572. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. contains a register of letters (ff. 79-138v) of Pope Paul IV (1555-1559), in Latin, dated 7 Dec. 1557 - 6 March 1558, signed by Luigi Lippomano, Bishop of Verona. The MS. also includes a proclamation (ff. 139-142v) of King Philip and Queen Mary I of England against King Henry II of France, 8 June 1557, in Italian translation, and the treaty of marriage (ff. 251-262v) between Queen Mary I of England and Prince Philip of Spain, [1554], in Latin, of which another copy in Add. 48000 (Yelverton MS. 1; art. 49, ff. 436-446v). Also included: - (a) relazione of France by Camillo Capilupi (in collaboration with his uncle Ippolito Capilupi), relating to Charles IX and the Huguenots, 8 Oct. 1572 (ff. 2-78), edited and published by G.F. Ferrari as Stratagemma di Carlo IX Re di Francia, contro gli Ugonotti rebelli di Dio, et suoi... [Rome: per gli heredi di A. Blado, 1574], B.L. copy C.38.e.42; also published in two parts, corresponding to the original Italian text and its French translation, at [Geneva ?] in 1574, B.L. copies 285.b.12, and G.15438 (lacking part 2, in French), other B.L. copies of another 1574 issue 596.a.9.(5), 1195.c.27 and 596.a.9.(6) (last two copies lacking part 2, in French); - (b) message to Pope Paul IV from the viceroy of Naples, Ferdinando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, on behalf of his king, n.d., in Italian and Spanish (ff. 143-146); - (c) heads of agreement between the Emperor Charles V and King Francis I of France, 1544, in Latin and Italian (ff. 147-154v); - (d) memorials relating to the dispute between Giovanni Andrea Doria and Marcantonio Colonna regarding the fleet of the League against the Turks, including letters and reports by Ascanio della Cornia, Pompeo Colonna, Sforza Pallavicini, and Giacomo Celsi, 1570 (ff. 155-226v): similar collections in Add. 8262 (art. pp, ff. 553-553v, 574-576, 582-584) and 8268 (art. d, ff. 11-35v); - (e) short relazione of the siege of Famagusta on Cyprus, 1571 (ff. 227-250v); - (f) tract relating to the origin of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem and the Knights of Malta, n.d. (ff. 263-274v); - (g) discourse of Ippolito Capilupi, Bishop of Fano, addressed to Guido Ubaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, relating to the League against the Turks, circa 1570-1571 (ff. 275-289), of which another copy in Eg. 1089, ff. 14-19v (previously foliated as pp. 21-32); - (h) papal instructions to Cardinal Alessandro Farnese, ambassador to Spain, on the death of Isabella of Portugal, wife of the Emperor Charles V, 1539 (ff. 290-294v); - (i) instructions from Ferdinand of Austria to Didaco Lasso of Castiglia and Bonaccorso de Grino, ambassadors to the Emperor Charles V (ff. 295-302v); - (j) instructions from Ferrante Gonzaga, Governor of Milan, to Pietro d'Agostino of Palermo, maestro razionale del Reale Patrimonio and Governatore della Compagnia dei Banchi di Palermo, relating to a report upon Sicily for the Emperor Charles V, 1546 (ff. 303-329), of which another copy in Royal 14 A XV, ff. 222-249; - (k) provisions for the war planned by Pope Clement VII (1523-1534) against the Emperor Charles V (ff. 330-336v); - (l) relazione of Spain by Bernardo Navagero, 1546 (ff. 337-436v), of which other copies in Add. 10197 and 48153 (Yelverton MS. 164; art. 6, ff. 101-123v), published by Albèri, s. i, vol. 1 (Florence, 1839), pp. 289-368. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Marked '18' in ink at centre of lower edge. Stamp of the Colonna library 'Libraria Colonna' in red on ff. ii, 1, 233, 436v; 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 XVIII / A' in pencil in upper part of f. ii. Purchased, together with Add. 8262-8278, 8280-8281, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 284 (part).

Paper; ff. 436+v, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 1, 78, 165, 214, 221, 226, 289, 302, 329, 336, two after ff. 142, 250. Old foliation in ink '1-455' (ff. 2-436, iv-v), including blanks, omitting nos. 173-177. 267 x 200mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. Several Italian hands: same hand for arts. (g) and (k), to be found also in Add. 8277, arts. (b) and (e), and 8280, arts. (k), (p), (u), (v), and the excerpt of Paris the Grassis (ff. 335-420), and 8281, arts. (b)-(c), (g)-(h), (k), and for the tract (ff. 87-106v) by Lucian.