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Add MS 8341
- Record Id:
- 032-002029206
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029206
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000318
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 8341
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, treatises and other historical papers relating to Rome and its territories, Venice, Spain, France, Savoy, Geneva and Colombia; circa 1558-1724. Italian and Latin. Copies and drafts. The volume was possibly compiled around 1722 during the papacy of Innocent XIII (1721-1724). With several contemporary corrections and additions throughout. Old shelfmark in ink 'XLIX' in lower spine: possibly identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 49 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 24v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '336' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8354, 8400, 8405, 8484 and 8591, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 336 (part).
Paper; ff. 373+v, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 50, 71, 200, 275, 306, 311. Composite volume. 266 x 200mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. Several Italian hands. 18th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.
Contents as follows:
1. ff. 1-31v. 'Manoscritto in cui si descrivono tutti i modi con i quali è stata governata Roma di tempo in tempo cominciando dal principio della sua fondazione fatta da Romolo sino a giorni presenti del pontefice Innocenzo XIII attualmente regnante', historical account of Rome and its successive governments throughout the centuries; 1721-1724. Italian. Draft. Inc. 'Romolo di Roma fondatore e padre assunse per se il governo'.
2. ff. 32-50v. 'Discorso intorno alle ragioni che la Chiesa ha sopra le terre della Romagna e sopra molte altre, le quali ha in varii tempi possedute, o vero ora possiede ... e che contenzioni siano state tra li pontefici e gli imperatori', political treatise relating to Church rights over territories in Romagna and elsewhere and the controversy with the Emperor; n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Parlando di Papa Alessandro 6o / In particolare oltre a questo'.
3. ff. 51-71v. 'Relazione dell'Eccellentissimo Signor Bernardo Navagero Ambasciatore Veneto fatta al Senato di Venezia del governo e ponteficato di Paolo IV...', relazione of Rome during the papacy of Paul IV by Bernardo Navagero; [1558]. Italian. Copy, late 17th cent. Inc. 'Roma, Serenissimo Prencipe, si come già crebbe colle armi'. Title written on a paper slip pasted on top of original title. Other copies in Add. 8355 (art. 8, ff. 183-205v), 10154, 29444 (ff. 90-121v), 48121 (Yelverton MS. 136; art. 9, ff. 117-177v). Published by Albèri, s. ii, vol. 3 (Florence, 1846), pp. 365-416 (the present text beginning at p. 373).
4. ff. 72-121. 'Scrittura in cui si vede secondo le leggi civili e canoniche se possino le Corone [di Spagna e di Francia] dare l'esclusiva dal Papato per mezzo de' loro ambasciatori a cardinali nel Conclave', originally followed by 'Il Signor Cardinal Albici [d. 1684] soggetto dottissimo ha composta la presente scrittura', crossed out and substituted by 'Composta da un teologo e canonista bravissimo d'ordine della Santità di Nostro Signore Papa Innocenzo XII [or XIII ?]; n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'In questa materia è forza valersi dell'invenzione propria'. With numerous contemporary corrections.
5. ff. 122-185. 'Relatione fatta al Senato di Venetia del Governo e Ponteficato di Alesandro VII dall'Eccellentissimo Sagredo quando terminata la sua Ambasciaria in Roma si portò alla Venetia', relazione of Rome written by Giovanni Pesaro together with Bertuccio Valier, Alvise Contarini and Nicolò Sagredo upon their return as ambassadors extraordinary sent to congratulate Alexander VII on his election in 1655; [1656]. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Hanno voluto questi miei Signori Colleghi darmi l'honore della prelatione'. Other copies in Add. 8330, art. 1, ff. 2-96v, 8404 (with slightly different text) and 8398, art. 7, ff. 324-393v. Published by Barozzi - Berchet, s. iii, v. ii (Venice, 1878), pp. 163-192.
6. ff. 186-200. 'Relazione della fuga delli Signori Duchi e Duchessa di Lorena per la detenzione d'ambedoi i sudetti soggetti ordinata dal Re di Francia Ludovico XIIII con quello di più che avvenne nella fuga', with later addition 'sudetta e del ritorno de i dependenti de i sudetti Duchi a i loro stati con tutti li avvenimenti successi nel loro ristabilimento', relazione of the flight of Duke Charles IV of Lorraine and his wife from Nancy; circa 1633. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Trovandosi il Cardinale di Richileù [sic] ormai padrone del Ducato di Lorena'.
7. ff. 201-216v. 'Procedimenti seguiti tra la Corte di Roma e sua Maestà di Savoia dopo il progetto dell'Eccellentissimo Signor Cardinale della Tremoille', original title cancelled and substituted by a later hand with 'Manoscritto in cui si adducono le ragioni per le quali il duca di Savoia, già re di Sicilia, ... che nessun ordine o Bolla pontificia possa aver rigore ne loro stati se non hanno l'exequatur regio', relazione of controversies that arose between Savoy and Rome over the proposal of Cardinal Joseph de la Tremouille; circa 1706-1720. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Nello stato delle cose presenti credevasi'.
8. ff. 217-232v, 233-250. 'Lettera responsiva data da Bologna da N.N. ad altra leggera scrittagli nella Curia Romana sopra la Coronazione del Re Christianissimo celebrata in Rems [sic] a 25 ottobre 1722', letter relating to the Coronation of Louis XV of France; 1722. Italian. Two drafts (?). Inc. 'Illustrissimo ... / Mi riconosco oggi onorato con una lettera'. With numerous corrections and additions (in particular to the first draft, ff. 217-232v).
9. ff. 251-275. 'Investitura del Regno di Napoli data dalla Santità di Papa Innocenzio XIII all'Imperator Carlo Sesto con diversi patti e condizioni particolari che sono state solite di porsi nell'altre investiture date da papi antecessori al Re di Spagna pro tempore di Casa d'Austria', bulla of Innocent XIII endowing the Kingdom of Naples on the Emperor Charles VI; 1722. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'Innocentius Episcopus ... Inscrutabili illius per quem reges regunt'. With marginal annotations.
10. ff. 276-297v. 'Manifesto dato fuori da Monsignor Luigi Belluga Vescovo di Cartagena del Consiglio di Stato di Sua Maestà Cattolica e oggi Cardinale contro il Manifesto pregiudiziale a Filippo V poco prima fatto spargere dall'Almirante di Castiglia in diversi luoghi della Spagna in tempo che detto Almirante si era rifugiato in Portogallo e risiedeva in Lisbona', manifesto by Luis Antonio Belluga y Monçada, Torre Castillo y Haro, Bishop of Cartagena (elected cardinal in 1719) on the legitimacy of the claim to the Crown of Spain of Philip V of Bourbon, which had been denied in the manifesto issued by Juan Tomás Enríquez de Cabrera, Duque de Rioseco, Conde de Melgar and Almirante de Castilla; 1705. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Per causa delle scritture fatte spargere dall'Almirante di Castiglia'.
11. ff. 298-306. 'Istoria del Governo politico di Ginevra', Relatione of Geneva by the Neapolitan writer Andrea Cardovino o Carduino; circa 1623. Italian. Copy, 18th cent. Imperfect (breaking in the midst of chapter IX). Inc. (f. 299) 'Prefazione / Ha la città di Ginevra dopo l'Appostasia della vera Religione'. The text is preceded (ff. 298-299) by a detailed table of contents. Other copies of Carduino's relazione in Add. MSS. 16485, ff. 76-135 (entitled 'Relatione di Ginevra d'Andrea Carduino Gentilhuomo Napolitano'), and 48123 (Yelverton MS. 138), art. 10, ff. 417-448v (abridged), Egerton MS. 1095, ff. 184-231v, Paris, Bibl. Nationale, MS. Ital. 429, and Venice, Bibl. Marciana, It. MS. VII, 920 (=7906), ff. 221-237, dated 1623 and dedicated to King Philip III of Spain.
12. ff. 307-311. 'Avviso a Monsignor Illustrissimo ... Michele Bonavides e Pedrola Vescovo di Cartagine nell'Indie Occidentali', letter from friar Giusto della Verità to Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola, Archbishop of Cartagena in Colombia (1681-1712); n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Benchè sia comparsa alle mani di Vostra Signoria Illustrissima una lettera in idioma spagnolo', expl. 'Fra Giusto della Verità'.
13. 312v-373v. 'De veteri Ecclesiae ritu in Christianorum cadaveribus recondendis sive de vetustis conditionis / Dissertatio Epistolica Historico-Ritualis' (title, f. 313), theological treatise on funereal rites; n.d. Latin. Draft. Inc. (f. 313) 'Quod nostros calumniandi mores in causa fuit'. Preceded (f. 312) by a prayer in Latin. Text divided into thirteen chapters.
- Scope & Content:
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent.
France General: Spain, General: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Papers rel. to: circa 1558-1724: Ital. and Lat.: Copies and drafts.
includes:
- ff. 51-71v Bernardo Navagero, Venetian Ambassador at Venice, Rome and Constantinople; afterwards Cardinal: Paul IV; Pope: Lorenzo Priuli; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Bernardo Navagero: [1558]: Ital: Copy, late 17th cent.
- ff. 122-185 Alexander VII; Pope: Giovanni Pesaro, Venetian Ambassador: Carlo Contarini; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Pesaro: 1656: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 186-200 Charles IV; Duke of Lorraine, Lower, and Brabant: Relazione of his flight from Nancy: circa 1633: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 217-250 Louis XV of France: Letter rel. to his Coronation: 1722: Ital: Two drafts.
- ff. 251-275 Charles VI; Emperor of Germany: Innocent XIII; Pope: Charles VI of Austria of Naples and Sicily: Bull rel. to Naples of Innocent XIII: 1722: Lat: Copy.
- ff. 276-297v Philip V of Spain: Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada, Bishop of Cartagena: Manifesto in defence of Philip V by Luis Antonio Belluga y Moncada: circa 1705: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 298-306 Andrea Carduino, of Naples: City of Geneva: Relazione of Geneva by Andrea Carduino: circa 1623: Ital: Imperf. Copy, 18th cent.
- ff. 307-311 Miguel Antonio de Benavides y Piedrola, Bishop of Cartagena in Colombia: Letter to: bef. 1712: Ital: Copy.
- ff. 312-373v Theology LATIN: Treatise on funereal rites: circa 1722: Lat: Draft.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029206
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029206
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1553
- End Date:
- 1724
- Date Range:
- c 1558-1724
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 336, part), 8 Dec. 1830.
Marefoschi family; of Rome: Possibly owned (MS. 49?), 18th cent.
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alexander VII, Pope
Belluga y Moncada, Luis Antonio, Bishop of Cartagena
Benavides y Piedrola, Miguel Antonio de, Bishop of Cartagena in Colombia
Carduino, Andrea, of Naples
Carlo Contarini, Doge of Venice
Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, 1604-1675
Charles VI of Austria, of Naples and Sicily
Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
General Court of Rome
Innocent XIII, Pope
Lorenzo Priuli, Doge of Venice
Louis XV, of France, 1710-1774
Marefoschi, Family
Navagero, Bernardo, Venetian Ambassador at Venice Rome and Constantinople, afterwards Cardinal
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Paul IV, Pope
Pesaro, Giovanni, Venetian Ambassador
Philip V, King of Spain - Places:
- Geneva, Switzerland
Spain, Europe