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Add MS 8284

Record Id:
032-002029149
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029149
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8284
Title:

COLLECTION of miscellaneous tracts, historical accounts, and letters relating mostly to the history of the Church, including prayers; circa 1483-1704. Italian and Latin. Copies and autograph drafts. Table of contents (ff. 1-2). 'D.V.5' and 'LXXVI' in pencil, and stamp 'biblioth / h.f. / J770' on f. i: identifiable with Falconieri MS. 76 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 26v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '290' in pencil at center of f. i. Purchased, together with Add. 8282-8283, 8285-8289, 8344, 8358, 8433, 8688, 8788, and possibly 8416, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 290 (part).

Paper; ff. 317+i, plus three unfoliated blanks after f. 2, one after ff. 32, 89, 92, 109, 112, 116, 123, 125, 126, 127, 128, 130, 155, 156, 174, 184, 187, 207, 220, 242, 250, 251, 257, 258, two after ff. 36, 161, five after f. 147, and four after f. 301; ff. 215 and 217 formed by pasted leaves with text hidden in the middle. Old foliation in ink '1-351' (ff. 3-317), including blanks, omitting f. 171. Composite volume. 283 x 210mm. Several Italian hands. Guilford binding of quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards.

The MS. includes:

1. ff. 37-76. Register of ecclesiastical properties in Italy; circa 1615. Italian. Copy.

2. ff. 131-147. 'Regole per il Seminario di S. Pietro', rules for the Seminary of St. Peter at Rome; after 1644. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'La santa memoria di Urbano VIII considerando providentemente'. Text divided into twenty chapters and including (f. 147) a table of contents.

3. ff. 166-174v. 'De Horologiis Solaribus', tract on sun-dials; n.d. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'Cap. Primo / Quomodo describantur Tropici / Ducatur primo linea A.B. quae sit meridiana'. Text divided into seven chapters.

4. ff. 177-317v. 'Scritture con le quali ho fatto la risposta a Benedetto Millini sopra l'imagine del Salvatore a Sancta Sanctorum', collection of original drafts and other papers of Fioravante Martinelli relating to his dispute with Benedetto Millini on the image of the Most Holy Saviour, known as Acheropita, in the Chapel of Saint Lawrence (usually called Sancta Sanctorum) in the Lateran Basilica; circa 1666. Latin and Italian. Autograph drafts and copies.

Scope & Content:

Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Miscellany rel. to: circa 1483-1704: Ital. and Lat: Copies and drafts.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: `BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Lat.

Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford bindings: bef. 1828.

includes:

  • ff. 37-76 Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Register of ecclesiastical properties in Italy: circa 1615: Ital: Copy.
  • ff. 166-174v Science and Technology: Horology: Tract on sun-dials: 17th cent.: Lat: Copy.
  • ff. 177-317v Rome; Ancient and Modern. City of Lateran Basilica: Papers of F. Martinelli rel. to: circa 1666: Ital. and Lat: Draft and copies.
  • ff. 177-317v Art. Miscellaneous: Fioravante Martinelli, of Rome; writer and apostolic scribe: Papers rel. to the Lateran Basilica of Fioravante Martinelli: circa 1666: Ital. and Lat: Drafts and copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029149
Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-002029149
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1478
End Date:
1704
Date Range:
c 1483-1704
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Falconieri family; of Rome: Owned (MS. 76) in 1770.

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 290, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Falconieri, Family
General Court of Rome
Lateran Basilica, Rome
Martinelli, Fioravante, of Rome, writer and apostolic scribe
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770