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Add MS 8359

Record Id:
032-002029224
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029224
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x00032a
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8359
Title:

POLITICAL INSTRUCTIONS to secretaries; after 1661. Italian and Latin. Instructions to secretaries of reigning princes, followed by models for letters, mainly relating to the Jesuits and their readmission into the territories of the Venetian Republic in 1661. Title (f. 2) 'Avvertimenti Politici e utilissimi per Signori che intraprendono affari de' Prencipi per tirare ad ottime fine ogni trattato, tanto in materia di Guerra, come ogn'altro affare domestico', inc. (f. 3) 'Se il potere e sapere mio fossero uguali', expl. (f. 49) 'far nell'honesto gran forza'. Text divided into 17 chapters. Another copy in Add. 8350, art. 1, ff. 55-115. Followed by: - (a) ff. 50-54v, 'Epistola a Domini Reverendi Patris nostris Prepositi Generalis ad Reverendos Patres Provinciales Universae Societatis Jesu', inc. (f. 51) 'Reverende in Christo Pater / Pax Christi / Exoptavit iam pridem Societas universa'; - (b) ff. 55-58v, 'Copia di lettera scritta dal Padre Generale dei Gesuiti alla Republica di Venetia', inc. (f. 56) 'Serenissimo Prencipe / Il più fervente desiderio'; - (c) ff. 59-61, 'Copia di lettera scritta dal Padre Generale de Giesuiti al Doge di Venetia', inc. (f. 60) 'Serenissimo Prencipe / L'esser hora il Principato della Serenissima Republica Veneta'; - (d) ff. 62-63v, 'Illustrissimo et Reverendissimo in Christo Patri Domino mite ratione divina S.R.E. Cardinalis de Lugo dignissimo', inc. (f. 63) 'Illustrissime et Reverendissime Christo Pater / All'efficacce desiderio e alle presenti instanze'. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '62' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8372, 8463, 8510, 8552, 8563, 8568, 8572, 8625, 8672, and 8807, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 62 (part).

Paper; ff. 63+iii. Old foliation in ink '1-62' (ff. 2-63). 252 x 195mm. One Italian hand. Late 17th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent.

Formularies: Political Tracts: Political instructions to secretaries, with model letters: aft. 1661: Ital. and Lat: Copies.

includes:

  • ff. 50-63 Orders Religious. Jesuits: Model letters, rel. to: aft. 1661: Ital. and Lat.: Copies.
  • ff. 55-63 Venice; Doges of: Model letters, rel. to the Jesuits: aft. 1661: Ital. and Lat.: Copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Is part of:
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Hierarchy:
032-002029224
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1661
End Date:
1661
Date Range:
after 1661
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 62, 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:
Doges of Venice
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770