Add MS 8407

MISCELLANY relating to Rome and Roman families, and including a short history of the Mattei Family by Onofrio Panvinio; 17th cent. Latin and Italian. Copies. The history of the Mattei family (art. 1) was written in 1561 by the Veronese historian and archeologist Onofrio Panvinio (1530-1568); another copy of the text in Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria, MS. 263, is listed in Iter Italicum, vol. ii (London, 1967), p. 13. The MS. also includes: an anonymous history of the Colonna family (art. 2), a list of Roman Senators from 1220 to 1662 (art. 3), a tract by the Roman historian Francesco Valesio (1670 - circa 1730) on a medieval tower in Rome, called Tor de' Conti (art. 5), the will of Matteo Rosso [i.e. Orsini?], father of Cardinal Giovanni Caetani Orsini, later Pope Nicholas III (art. 6), a life of Pope Urban IV (1261-1264) offered to his nephew Cardinal Anchero Pantaléon by the contemporary French historian and poet Thierry de Vaucouleurs, in Latin verses (art. 7), and an anonymous account of the entry of the Emperor Charles V into Rome in 1536 (art. 9). Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 December. 1830, lot unknown.

Paper; ff. 206+i, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 59, 138, 188, two after f. 180. Old foliation in ink '1-211' (ff. 2-206), including blanks, possibly missing leaf foliated '60'. Composite volume. 293 x 210mm (mounted on modern guards). Several Italian hands.

Contents includes:

1. ff. 2-59v. 'Onuphrii Panvinii Veronensis Fratris Eremitae Augustiniani De gente Mathaeia liber' (title f. 3), account of the Mattei family by Onofrio Panvinio; 1561. Latin. Copy. Dedication letter (ff. 2-2v). 'Onuphrius Panvinius Veronensis Frater Eremita Augustinianus Jacobo Matheio Petri Antonii filio Paparesco S.P.D. / Quum ipso mecum saepe diutiusque cogitassem ... Romae Kalendis Decembris Anno salutis MDLXI Urbis vero conditae MMCCCXIII', inc. (f. 4) 'Onuphrius ... Augustinianus Mucio Mathaeio Ludovici filio Paparesco S.P.D. / Nobilitatis maximam partem, immo nobilitatem fere ipsam'.

2. ff. 60-105. 'Tractatus de familia Columnensi excerptus ex codice MS. Cardinalis Hieronymi de Columna anno 1629' (title added by a later hand), history of the Colonna Family from a MS. belonging to Cardinal Girolamo Colonna; circa 1629. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Si divide il presente trattato in due parti ... / Prima parte / Che questa fameglia sia antichissima et nobilissima'.

3. ff. 106-119. 'Elenchus Senatorum Almae Urbis', list of Roman Senators, 1220-1662; circa 1662. Latin. Copy. Inc. '1220 Parentius Parentius Romanus', expl. '1662 Iulius Caesar Negrellius Ferrareinsis Venariae Comes obiit in munere ... Octavius Riarius Marchio Montis Piloti et Senator Bononiensis'.

4. ff. 120-138v. 'Ordinationi Statuti et Reformationi facti sopra le dote Tocali (?) o vero acconci Nozze Rechiese et ex equii facti per li infrascripti tredeci Citadini deputati per lo consiglio generale ad fare tucte le infrascripte ordinatione con havere poi el consenso della Santità de Nostro Signore', Roman decrees of civil law relating to dowries, marriages, and funerals; n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. (f. 120v) 'In primo statuimo et ordiname che niuna persona tanto maschio quanto femina'. Including (ff. 133-137) the Roman statutes of 1469.

5. ff. 139-144v. 'Illustrissimo Domino ac Patrono D. Baroni Philippo da Shosch Franciscus Valesius Romanus ', tract on the Tor de' Conti in Rome by the Roman historian Francesco Valesio; n.d. Latin and Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Cum superioribus diebus amice'.

6. ff. 145-148. Will of Matteo Rosso, father of Cardinal Giovanni Caetani Orsini, later Pope Nicholas III; 4 Oct. 1246. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'In nomine Domini Amen / Dominicae Incarnationis 1246 ... Ego Mattheus Rubeus aeger corpore, sanus tamen mente'.

7. ff. 149-176v. 'Theodoricus Valliscoloris Vita Urbani Papae IV' (see table of contents, f. 1), verse life of Urban IV by Thierry de Vaucouleurs; circa 1264. Latin. Copy. Preface (f. 149) 'Praefatio Thierrici Vallicoloris ad Venerabilem Patrem Dominum Antherum [Antero or Anchero Pantaléon] tituli Sanctae Praxedis Presbyterum Cardinalem, nepotem Domini Urbani Papae IV / O venerande pater', inc. (f. 149v) 'Urbanus IV / Nasonis mores sequor hic fugiendo colores'.

8. ff. 177-180v. 'De Castro Nimphae in Latio / dominus de Rubeis Comissarius Camerae Apostolicae in hiis libris manuscriptis sub titulo Informationes 1656 / Parte Prima. Folio 834', tract on the town of Ninfa near Cisterna di Latina in the Lazio region, once a possession of the Caetani family and sold to the Borghese family in 1619; 1656. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'De Castro Nimphae in Archivio Arcis Sancti Angeli'.

9. ff. 181-186v. 'Entrata de lo Imperatore Carlo Quinto in Roma in giorno di mercordì ali cinque d'aprile 1536', account of the entry of the Emperor Charles V into Rome; 1536. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'La Maestà dell'Imperator Carlo Quinto avendo dimorata tutta l'invernata dell'anno 1536 nella città di Napoli'.

10. f. 187. Inscription found in Rome near the Ponte Rotto; n.d. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'Non fuit ignarus cuius domus'.

11. ff. 188-199v. 'Giovanni Battista Angelini: Sopra una medaglia di Pescennio' (title in table of contents, f. 1). Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Illustrissimo Signore ... / Nel partirmi ch'io fui il passato maggio di Roma, ella m'impose, riveritissimo Signor Marchese', expl. 'Rimini ... Giambattista Gervasoni Angelini'.

12. ff. 200-206. 'Scielta delle cose appartenenti alla Città di Roma dalla Margarita Viterbese'; n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'La famiglia de Capocci e de Capoccini nel 1200'.