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Add MS 8384

Record Id:
032-002029249
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029249
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000363
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8384
Title:

ACCOUNT of the journey of Pope Pius VII (1800-1823) to Paris for the coronation of Napoleon I in 1804; circa 1804. Italian and Latin. Copy. Title (f. 1) 'Narrazione istorica del viaggio fatto a Parigi da Sua Santità il regnante Sommo Pontefice Pio VII, della Sua permanenza in quella città e del Suo ritorno a Roma / Vol. 1o'. Preface (ff. 2-3) 'Introduzione / Sembrava che il caduto secolo fosse stato così copioso', inc. (f. 4) 'Viaggio di Pio VII a Parigi / Il Senatus Consulto organico dei 28 fiorile anno 12 (18 maggio 1804)', expl. (f. 161v) 'durante lo spoglio nelle tempeste della passata rivoluzione'. Including poems dedicated to the Pope on his passage through Pistoia: - (a) ff. 31-32v, an elegy in Latin, inc. 'Ergo qui Sanctis moderatur Legibus orbem / Pastorem his dabitur coernere luminibus?'; - (b) ff. 37-37v, sonnets in Italian, inc. 'Qual d'orgoglio e d'ardir folle congiura', inc. 'Per il passaggio di Sua Santità da Pistoia, / Non già invocando le Pierie Suore'. With occasional footnotes and corrections. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '96' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8339, 8385, 8387, 8388, 8390, and possibly 8389, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 96 (part).

Paper; ff. 161+iv, plus three unfoliated blanks after f. 3. 308 x 214mm. One Italian hand, the same hand as in Add. 8339 (main hand), 8387 (ff. 2-31v), 8388, 8389 (ff. 2-20, 51-60, 64-67v), and 8390: possibly Louis Cereghelli (see Add. 8389). Early 19th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.

Scope & Content:

Luigi Cereghelli, Secretary of Pius VII's household: Copied (?): circa 1804-1816: Ital.

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: bef. 1827.

Voyages and Travels: Pius VII; Pope: Account of Pius VII's journey to Paris: circa 1804: Ital: Copy.

includes:

  • ff. 31-32v Poetry LATIN: Elegy dedicated to Pius VII: 1804: Lat: Copy.
  • ff. 37-37v Poetry ITALIAN: Two sonnets dedicated to Pius VII: 1804: Ital: Copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029249
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-002029249
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1799
End Date:
1809
Date Range:
c 1804
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 96, 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:
Cereghelli, Luigi, Secretary of Pius VII's household
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
Pius VII, Pope