Add MS 8676

BARTOLOMEO CHIOCCARELLO: Summary of the Archive of the Royal Jurisdiction in the Kingdom of Naples; circa 1635. Italian and Latin. Copies. The present MS. contains the Indice all'Archivio della Real Giurisdizione published around 1635 by Bartolomeo Chioccarello, archivist of the Regia Camera della Sommaria between 1607-1635. In 1626 Chioccarello had been commissioned by the duke of Caivano, secretary to the kingdom under Philip III and his viceroy Antonio Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alba, to unify the archives of the Royal Jurisdiction. Chioccarello published the results of his work in 1631 under the title Archivio della Real Giurisdizione, collecting all the archival records concerning the relations of the Neapolitan Kingdom with the Papal Curia and various religious institutions, mainly with regard to ecclesiastical privileges and immunities and the Tribunal of the Inquisition. He then compiled the Indice all'Archivio as a quick reference. The autograph manuscript of the Indice is now Naples, Bibl. Teologica 'S. Tommaso', ms. A. 6. 39. The present MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Archivium scripturarum regiae Jurisdictionis'. Inc. (f. 4) 'Indice seu Sommario del primo tomo intitolato De Investituris Regni Neapolitani. Nel qual si tratta dell'Investiture del detto Regno di Napoli, overo di Sicilla citra Pharis fatte da Sommi Pontifici Romani tanto che ha havuto titolo di Regno, quanto di Ducato di Puglia, e Calabria. / Primo è necessario rifferire le raggioni', expl. (f. 320v) 'che dalla Regia Camera riferisse la quantità e liquidasse il prezzo'. The text is divided into 18 books. Table (ff. 1-3) of contents in Latin, inc. 'Hos libros continet His Titulis Adiectis / Primum Volumen / De Investituris Regni Neapolitani'. The text was printed with variations by the priest Angelo Rocchi under the pseudonym Giovan Carlo Chino, Archivio della Reggia Giurisdizione del Regno di Napoli, ristretto in indice compendioso (Venice [but Naples], 1721); B.L. copy 5373.e.4. For Chioccarello see DBI, 25 (1981), pp. 4-8. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. Purchased from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot no. undetected.

Paper; ff. 321, plus three unfoliated interleaved leaves after f. 3. Modern foliation 1-320 (followed here), missing one leaf after f. 292, comprising small inserted leaves (ff. 69-70, 81) bearing the title of following content; other five such inserted leaves (before ff. 50, 78, 173, 193, 267) left loose and therefore unfoliated. 263 x 190mm. Numerical gathering signatures 1-20 (ff. 169-283) in top right corner of first rectos. Horizontal catchwords on versos and more inconsistently on rectos. Several Italian hands. Mottled edges.