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Add MS 8404
- Record Id:
- 032-002029270
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029270
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x000396
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8404
- Title:
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GIOVANNI PESARO: Relazione of Rome; [1656]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome written by Giovanni Pesaro together with Bertuccio Valier, Alvise Contarini and Nicolò Sagredo upon their return from the extraordinary embassy to the Papal Court in 1655 to congratulate Alexander VII on his election to the Papacy. Other copies in Add. 8330 (art. 1, ff. 2-96v), 8341 (art. 5, ff. 122-185), and 8398 (art. 7, ff. 324-393v). Text differs at the end from the relazione published by Barozzi - Berchet, s. iii, v. ii (Venice, 1878), pp. 163-192. Title (f. 1) 'Relatione dell'Eccellentissimo Signore Giovanni Pesaro Cavaliere e Procuratore di S. Marco nel ritorno dell'Ambasceria straordinaria alla Santità di Papa Alessandro Settimo'. Inc. (f. 2) 'Serenissimo Principe / Hanno voluto questi Eccellentissimi Signori miei colleghi', expl. (f. 80v) 'qualche attione illustre de suoi maggiori'. Possibly identifiable with Mattei MS. 116 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 30v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '332' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8401, 8588 ?, 8590, 8654, and 8707, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 332 (part).
Paper; ff. 80+iv. 255 x 187mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. Late 17th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.
- Scope & Content:
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: late 17th cent.
Alexander VII; Pope: Giovanni Pesaro, Venetian Ambassador: Carlo Contarini; Doge of Venice: Relazione of Rome by Giovanni Pesaro: 1656: Ital: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029270
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029270
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1656
- End Date:
- 1656
- Date Range:
- [1656]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 332, part), 8 Dec. 1830.
Mattei Library: Possibly owned (MS. 116), late 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
Carlo Contarini, Doge of Venice
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Mattei Library
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Pesaro, Giovanni, Venetian Ambassador