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Add MS 8559

Record Id:

032-002029435

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032-002029435

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Add MS 8559

Title:

PAPERS RELATING TO ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN PIEDMONT; 1393-1732. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly printed (f. 293 and following blank). Papers relating to the controversies between the Papacy and the House of Savoy over ecclesiastical benefits in the fiefs of Piedmont. Old numbering of arts. in ink '1-42' at lower margin of first leaf. Old shelfmark 'iil / n. 42' at top left corner of f. ii. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford, with shelfmark 'L/18/B' (front pastedown). '517' in pencil at top of front pastedown. Purchased, together with 8553 and probably 8554, 8555, and 8560, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot no. lot 517 (part).

Paper; ff. 313+iv, plus 28 unfoliated interleaved blanks throughout. Old foliation in ink '1-72' (ff. 2-73). Composite volume. circa 274 x 200mm. Several hands. Horizontal catchwords generally on each leaf. Guilford binding of quarter vellum with decorated paper covers over pasteboards. Contents as follows:

1. ff. 1-73. 'Dimostrazione della Sovranità Temporale della Sede Apostolica ne' i Feudi Ecclesiastici del Piemonte'; 1691-1730. Italian. Inc. (f. 2) 'Cap. I / Istorico Racconto de' i fatti passati dall'ottavo Secolo fino al tempo presente / Le Chiese Catedrali di Turino, Asti, e Pavia', expl. 'reiterate confessioni degl'istessi Duchi di Savoia, come si è sopra dimostrato'. With marginal annotations.

2. ff. 74-85. 'Riflessioni generali sopra il Progetto', Considerations over the Proposal for a Concordate; n.d. Italian. Inc. 'Capitolo Primo / Riflessioni generali sopra il Progetto / Anche senza un minuto esame de pregiudizi', expl. 'l'unico riguardo del publico bene, e del vantaggio dello stato'. Shorter version of the text in Add. 8555, art. 4.

3. ff. 86-93, 136, 212-213, 260-270. Various papers and short notes, all by the same cursive hand, including (f. 88) a copy of a draft letter from Mons. [Giuseppe Maria ?] Ferroni to Cardinal [Giuseppe Renato?] Imperiali.

4. ff. 94-96v. Relazione to the Pope relating to the fiefs of Piedmont; circa 1727. Italian. Inc. 'Osservazioni che si presentano a Vostra Beatitudine per i Feudi dell'Asteggiano, ed altri situati nel Piemonte e spettanti alla Santa Sede', expl. 'e così si spera che non lo lasciarà abbandonato'.

5. ff. 97-109. 'Dominio temporale della Chiesa d'Asti', an historical overview; n.d. Italian. Inc. (f. 98) 'Il dominio temporale che per lo spazio di molti secoli', expl. 'invadere i diritti della Chiesa d'Asti'. Draft.

6. ff. 110-117v. 'Informazione sopra li Feudi esistenti nel Contado d'Asti del Sovrano dominio della Sede Apostolica'; n.d. Italian. Inc. 'Le terre o castelli del dominio pontificio esistenti nel contado di Asti', expl. (f. 116) 'le rinovazioni dell'Investiture'.

7. ff. 118-131v. 'Informazione delli Castelli della Chiesa d'Asti cavata dagl'atti ventilati inanzi l'Illustrissimo Signor Cardinale [Giovanni Paolo] Chiesa Delegato della Santità di Nostro Signore Pio V, e da lettere dopo il medesimo scritte'; n.d. Italian. Inc. 'Le terre, o castelli della Chiesa di Asti sono in numero 20', expl. (f. 130v) 'e però provedino alli casi loro'.

8. ff. 132-135v. 'Voto del Cardinal [Giovanni Paolo] Chiesa a S. Pio V circa la libertà dei feudi della chiesa di Asti', title on f. 135v; n.d. Latin. Inc. 'Vidi, et pro tenui facultate mea diligenter consideravi', expl. (f. 134v) 'et immunitatem esse restituendam'.

9. ff. 137-211v. Tract against the pretensions of the King of Savoy; n.d. Italian. Inc. 'Tutta la difesa della Serenissima Casa di Savoia', expl. 'incontrar dispute e ammettere controversie'.

10. ff. 214-259v, 289-290v, 293. Copies of letters and other papers; 1572-1726. Italian and Latin. Partly printed (f. 293 and following blank). Including: - (a) ff. 219-226, bull of Gregory XIII, 1572; - (b) ff. 228-246v, Act of replacement of the Bishop of Asti by Duke Charles Emmanuel of Savoy, 10 March 1611, and Reply from Paul V, 10 Feb. 1612; - (c) ff. 247-249, Treaty between the Marquis of Breglio, Minister of Savoy, and Mons. Alessandro Albani, passed to Monsignor Silvio Valenti, n.d.

11. ff. 271-289, 291-292. Papers relating to Messerano in Piedmont; circa 1705-1706. Italian. Including: - (a) ff. 271-284v, Correspondence between Abbot Bernardino Guinigi, Commissario Apostolico in Messerano, and Cardinal Fabrizio Paolucci de' Calboli, Secretary of State of Clement XI; - (b) ff. 285-289, 'Ragioni che giustificano la Sovranità di Sua Maestà sopra il Principato di Messerano', inc. 'Era questo Principato anticamente', n.d.; - (c) ff. 291-292, Investiture of the feud from Pope Boniface IX, 1393.

12. ff. 294-310v. Papers relating to Montanaro Canavese in Piedmont; 1732. Italian. Including (ff. 294-296v), 'Testimoniali di Protesta', inc. 'L'Anno del Signore 1732 et alli 30 del mese di luglio in Montanaro Canavese'.

13. ff. 311-313. Summary of Congregation; 1726. Latin. Inc. 'Feria 6^a. Die 16. Augusti 1726. In Palatio Apostolico Quirinali habita fuit Congregatio Particularis deputata a Santissimo super negotiis Regni Sardinia interessentibus et suffragantibus Eminentissimis ... Cardinalibus Origo Imperiali Alexandro Albani ... Lercari ... Fyni ... D. N. Cubicoli ... Paulutio Archiepiscopo ...'. See Add. 8555, art. 5, ff. 118v-120.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ENGLISH: Guiford binding: bef. 1828.

Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/18/B): bef. 1828.

Piedmont: Clement XII; Pope: Sardinia, King of. Victor Amadeus I: Sardinia, King of. Charles Emmanuel I: Collection rel. to ecclesiastical affairs in Piedmont: 1393-1732: Ital. and Lat: Copies.

includes:

ff. 97-135v Asti, Italy: Papers rel. the diocese of: 16th cent.-1732: Ital. and Lat: Copies.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 item

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Italian
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1393

End Date:

1732

Date Range:

1393-1732

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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 517, part), 8 Dec. 1830.

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

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Charles Emmanuel I, of Sardinia
Charles Emmanuel III, Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia, 1701-1773,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061253627,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/62350529
Clement XII, Pope
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
Victor Amadeus I, King of Sardinia
Victor Amadeus II, of Savoy

Places:

Asti, Italy