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Add MS 8516

Record Id:
032-002029390
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029390
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x000024
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8516
Title:

COLLECTION OF LETTERS to Maffeo Albertini of Verona; 1606. Italian. Collection of original letters with paper seals sent in the year 1606 by various correspondents to Maffeo Albertini of Verona (not to be confused with Maffeo Albertini, presbyter and author of a religious treatise against protestants together with Giovanni del Bene, entitled Confirmatione et stabilimento di tutti li dogmi catholici... (Venice, 1553). The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 1298, p. 100, and in Iter Italicum, IV (1989), p. 68a. Title (f. 1) 'Epistole sercreto (?) anno 1606', inc. (f. 2) 'Illustrissimo signor mio osservandissimo / [Ho ricev]uto le due lettere di Vostra Signoria da Camerino con quella per Signor Negrobono ... Roma 28 gennaio 1606 ... Francesco Balfri', expl. (f. 208) 'Illustrissimo Signor mio osservandissimo / Se ben per la indisposition di miei occhi ... Di Verona gli 27 dicembre 1606 ... Aurelio Prandini fece scrivere'. The MS. includes (ff. 12-15v) a letter from the Florentine poet Astolfo Bardini with poems in praise of Albertini; first lines as follows: (a) f. 12, 'Allor che il Tevere', 'Questo sì, ch'è miracolo d'Amore'; - (b) ff. 13-13v, 'Sestina / Maffeo, io piango, e humiliar col pianto'; - (c) f. 14, 'Maffeo, tu, che per prova intendi Amore'. Also included (ff. 100-100v) a letter from Ottavio Rossi (1570-1630), not published in Lettere del Signor Ottavio Rossi. Raccolte da B. Fontana... (Brescia: Bartolomeo Fontana, 1621), B.L. copy 1084.f.23.(1.). Stamp (f. 1) 'biblioth / h.f. / J770', probably from the Biblioteca Falconieri (identifiable with Falconieri MS. no. 4 in Guilford's catalogue Add. 8220, f. 21v). Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '669' in pencil in upper margin of f. 1. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 669.

Paper; ff. 209. Letters numbered in ink '1-107'. circa 306 x 205mm. Guilford binding of quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards.

Scope & Content:

Seals: Letters to M. Albertini: 1606: Ital.

Bindings ENGLISH: Guilford binding: bef. 1828.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: 'BIBLIOTH / H.F. / J770': 1770: Ital.

Maffeo Albertini, of Verona: Letters to: 1606: Ital.

includes:

  • ff. 12-14 Poetry ITALIAN: Astolfo Bardini, of Florence: Poems in praise of M. Albertini by Astolfo Bardini: 1606: Ital: Autogr.
  • ff. 100-100v Ottavio Rossi, of Brescia; jurist and poet: Letter to M. Albertini: 1606: Ital: Autogr.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029390
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Hierarchy:
032-002029390
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1606
End Date:
1606
Date Range:
1606
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 669), 8 Dec. 1830.

Falconieri family; of Rome: Owned in 1770 (MS. 4).

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

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Albertini, Maffeo, of Verona
Bardini, Astolfo, poet, of Florence, fl 1606-1640
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Falconieri, Family
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Rossi, Ottavio, of Brescia, jurist and poet