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Add MS 8411

Record Id:
032-002029277
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029277
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000050.0x00039d
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8411
Title:

TRACT on papal conclaves; early 17th cent. Italian. Copy. Treatise relating to the rules and proceedings of the conclaves for the election of the pope. The text is divided into 3 books (ff. 6, 67, 190), the third book including accounts of conclaves and subsequent papacies from Innocent VIII (1481-1492) to Clement VII (1523-1534). Title (f. 2) 'Discorsi del conclave / Volume primo'. Proemium (ff. 6-7v) 'Molti facilmente si troveranno li quali non prima havendo inteso il soggetto', inc. (f. 8v) 'Delle cose che s'hanno da trattare in questo discorso / Capitolo 2o', expl. (f. 351v) 'usar li cibi di sua natura sani e buoni'. Contemporary table of contents (ff. 3-5). Old shelfmark 'CCLXV / III' in ink on small paper slip pasted onto upper left corner of front pastedown; other shelfmark '256' in ink on small paper slip pasted onto lower left part of f. 1v. Ownership inscription (f. 1v) 'Ex libris / Marii Marefusci': identifiable with Marefoschi MS. 268 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 9v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '88' in pencil in front pastedown and upper left corner of f. 1. Purchased, together with Add. 8367, 8410, 8414, 8415, 8426, 8427, and 8428, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 88 (part).

Paper; ff. 355, plus two unfoliated blanks after f. 5. Old pagination in ink '1-350' (ff. 5-355). 267 x 197mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. Guilford binding of quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828.

Political Tracts: Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Tract on conclaves: early 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029277
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-002029277
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1600
End Date:
1640
Date Range:
Early 17th century
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 88, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

Mario Marefoschi Compagnoni, Cardinal 1770: Owned (MS. 268), bef. 1780.

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford: Owned, bef. 1828.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
General Court of Rome
Marefoschi Compagnoni, Mario, Cardinal 1770
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770