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Record Id:
032-002029394
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032-002029394
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Add MS 8520
Title:

MISCELLANY of letters, extracts from religious tracts, and moral precepts; circa 1648-1732. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: - (a) art. 1, ff. 1-5, correspondence of Cardinal Giovanni Bona (1609-1674), Cistercian Abbot and Consultor to the Congregation of the Index and to the Holy Office; - (b) art. 2, ff. 6v-10v, an anonymous religious treatise relating to the Holy Scriptures, the Christian tradition and the Church; - (c) arts. 3-5, ff. 11-43v, excerpts from works by Zeger Bernard van Espen, François Pagi, and Cencio Savelli; - (d) art. 6, ff. 44-48v, letters to Monsignor Fabio Chigi, internuncio at Cologne, from Leone Allacci (1586-1669), Keeper of the Vatican Library; - (e) art. 7, ff. 50-67v, a collection of moral precepts. For an autograph letter of Cardinal Bona to Father Antonio di S. Gabriele see Add. 11759, f. 58; for letters from Allacci to A. Magliabechi see Add. 25599, ff. 21-23. For Giovanni Bona see DBI, 11 (1969), pp. 442-445; for Leone Allacci see DBI, 2 (1960), pp. 467-471. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot unknown.

Paper; ff. 67+iii, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 2, 48, four after f. 5, and five after f. 41. Composite volume. circa 275 x 209mm. Several cursive Italian hands: first hand (ff.f 1-5) is that of Flavio Compagnoni.

Contents as follows:

1. ff. 1-5. Letters of correspondence of Cardinal Giovanni Bona with Antonio Arnaldo, Cardinal Enrico Noris, Canonico Nicasio, the Jesuit Daniel Papebroch, John Van Neercassel, Bishop of Castoria, and Gilbert de Choiseul du Plessis, Bishop of Tournai; 1672-1674. Italian and Latin. Copies, 1738, by Flavio Compagnoni. - (a) ff. 1-2, 'Alcune lettere italiane del Cardinale Giovanni Bona copiate da un codice manoscritto, che si conserva appresso i monaci di S. Bernardo alle Terme in Roma quest'anno 1738 / copiate da me Flavio Compagnoni', inc. 'Al ... Signor Antonio Arnaldo / Parigi / Prima che io ricevessi ... 15 marzo 1672'; - (b) ff. 3-5, 'Joannis Cardinalis Bonae Littere latine', inc. 'Eminentissimo ... Cardinali Bona Daniel Papebrochius / Ad finem tendit impressio Aprilis'. Partly published in Joannis Bona... Presbyteri Cardinalis ordinis Cisterciensis ... Epistolae Selectae ... collegit ... Robertus Sala... (Turin: ex typographia regia, 1754 and 1755; facsimile 1970), pp. 282-283, 298-299; B.L. copy 89.l.2, and facsimile X.203/301.

2. ff. 6v-10v. Letter relating to Holy Scriptures, christian tradition and church; n.d. Italian. Copy. Inc. 'Lettera / Eccomi signor Giacomo a continuare il cominciato carteggio'.

3. ff. 11-36. Zeger Bernard van Espen, Jus ecclesiasticum universum (Leuven, 1732), excerpts; n.d. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'Zezeri Bernardi van Espen Professori Lovaniensis Ius ecclesiasticum Universum in 6 volumina tribuit edidit Lovanii 1732 / P. 1 De personis / Primis V ecclesis seculis nullos fuisse clericos ... p. 3 ex. 15'.

4. ff. 37-41v. François Pagi, Breviarium historico-chronologico-criticum, illustriora Pontificum Romanorum gesta... (Paris: 1717), excerpts; n.d. Latin. Copy. Inc. 'Excerpta ex Breviario Pontificum Romanorum Francisci Pagi, Paris 1717 / ex To. 1 / Ex factu Simplicii ... p. 17'.

5. ff. 42v-43v. Cencio Savelli, Librum censuum Romanae ecclesiae, excerpts; n.d. Copy. Latin. Inc. 'Ex Libro censuum Romanae ecclesiae a Cencio Camerario composito haec ex cerpta sunt Privilegia et diplomata Regum. c. casolio n. 19 / Privilegium Regii Hispaniae p. xxxviii / In nomine ... Inter caetera ... Zamova vii Idus Julii aeva Millesima ducentesima decima. Regnante Rege domino Ferdinando'. The autograph MS. of Savelli's work is now Vatican City, Vatican Library, MS. Vat. Lat. 8486.

6. ff. 44-48v. 'Lettere di Leone Allacci da Scio scritte a Monsignor Fabio Chigi internunzio a Bruxelles [but Cologne] poi Alessandro VII, copiate dalle lettere originali esistenti in Casa Chigi', three letters to Fabio Chigi from Leone Allacci; 7 March - 14 April 1648. Italian. Copies. Inc. 'Illustrissimo ... Padrone colendissimo / Le dirò brevemente e schiettamente ... Roma 7 marzo 1648'.

7. ff. 50-67. Moral precepts of good life; n.d. Latin. Inc. 'Nosce se ipsum / In ira metu, temeritate, aut qua passione latores?'

Scope & Content:

Commonplace Books: Commonplaces: Letters: Miscellany of letters, excerpts from religious treatises, and collection of moral precepts: circa 1648-1732: Ital. and Lat: Copies.

includes:

  • ff. 1-5 Giovanni Bona, Cardinal 1669: Letters: 1672-1674: Ital. and Lat: Copies.
  • ff. 44-48v Fabio Chigi, Cardinal 1652; Pope Alexander VII 1655: Letters from L. Allacci: 1648: Ital: Copies.
  • ff. 44-48v Leone Allacci, Keeper of the Vatican Library: Letters to F. Chigi: 1648: Ital: Copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Record Type (Level):
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Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1643
End Date:
1732
Date Range:
c 1648-1732
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from, 8 Dec. 1830.

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

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Allacci, Leone, Keeper of the Vatican Library, 1586-1669
Bona, Giovanni, Cardinal 1669
Chigi, Fabio, Cardinal 1652, Pope Alexander VII 1655
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770