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Add MS 8472
- Record Id:
- 032-002029342
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029342
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000004
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8472
- Title:
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GIROLAMO LUNADORO: Relazione of Rome; circa 1611. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Papal Court written by the nobleman Girolamo Lunadoro of Siena, allegedly for a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly Carlo (elected cardinal in 1615). Other 17th-cent. copies, with some textual differences, in Add. 8356 (dated 1623: art. 3, ff. 9-49v), 8471, 18660 (ff. 85-136), Arundel 21 (dated 11 Jan. 1611), Egerton 2210 (ff. 112-163), and Royal 14.A.xx (art. 6, ff. 546-622v); a shorter version in Harley 754 (ff. 2-38v); a short excerpt in Add. 4458, art. 13, ff. 95-96. For other information on the text and its printed editions see Add. 8471. Title (f. 1) 'Relatione della Corte di Roma col distinto ragguaglio di tutti li officii che si essercitano nella Corte'. Inc. (f. 2) 'Il Sommo Pontefice ha per suoi collaterali 70 Cardinali', expl. (f. 136) 'alla domanda di chi mi puol commandare'. Old shelfmark in brown ink (slightly faint) '118' in fourth spine compartment: identifiable with Mattei MS. 118 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 30v. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '556' in pencil in upper left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8371, 8375, 8379, 8380, 8381, and 8429, from R. H. Evans, 8 December. 1830, lot 556 (part).
Paper; ff. 139+iv. Modern pencil foliation '1-136' (followed here), omitting one leaf after ff. 12, 29, repeating no. 103. 248 x 173mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. 17th-cent. Italian binding of full vellum.
- Scope & Content:
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent.
Carlo de' Medici, Cardinal 1615: Relazione of Rome by G. Lunadoro, offered to (?): circa 1611: Ital: Copy.
Rome; Court of; and Popes, Bishops of. General: Girolamo Lunadoro, of Siena; Cavaliere: Relazione of Rome by Girolamo Lunadoro: circa 1611: Ital: Copy.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029342
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029342
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1606
- End Date:
- 1616
- Date Range:
- c 1611
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 556, part), 8 Dec. 1830.
Mattei Library: Owned (MS. 118), late 18th cent.
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
Lunadoro, Girolamo, of Siena, Cavaliere
Mattei Library
Medici, Carlo de', Cardinal 1615
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770