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Record Id:
032-002029571
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029571
MDARK:
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Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8687
Title:

RELAZIONE OF SPAIN; Ragionamento fatto da Filippo II a Filippo III; La monarchia di Spagna crescente e calante; late 16th-mid 17th cent. Italian. Copies. A collection of texts relating to the reign of Philip II of Spain (1556-1598). Table of contents (f. 1) by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '254' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8685, 8689, 8691, 8700, 8703, 8705, and 8708, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 254 (part).

1. ff. 2-24. 'Relatione Summaria del Cattolico Re Filippo 2do di Spagna'; n.d. Inc. (f. 3) 'Filippo Secondo di Austria Re di Spagna nacque di Carlo Quinto Imperatore', expl. 'che è quanto posso dire alla Serenità vostra circa la persona del Cattolico Re Filippo Secondo, e suo dominio e stati'.

2. ff. 25-66. 'Raggionamento Fatto da Filippo 2o Rè di Spagna à Filippo 3o suo figliolo come si debbia contenere tanto in tempo di Pace, come di Guerra'; n.d. Inc. (f. 26) 'Se bene chi vive à gli affanni et alle cure moleste', expl. 'che il correr l'apperto et imbelle Oriente come fece Alessandro magno'.

3. ff. 67-130. 'La Monarchia di Spagna crescente e Calante', relazione of Spain celebrating the reign of Philip IV of Spain and his minister Luis Mendez de Haro y Zúñiga, Marqués of Carpio (mentioned on ff. 71, 129v) and their victories in the Thirty Year War and in the war with France (1635-1659); n.d. Inc. (f. 68) 'Signor mio la sfera che da il moto à gl'intelletti del mondo', expl. 'la conservazione della fede Cattolica e la Pace fra Prencipi Cristiani'. Luis de Haro was prime minister and favourite of Philip IV between 1643-1661.

Paper; ff. 130+ii, plus one interleaved unfoliated blank after f. 24 and two after f. 66. Old foliation in ink 1-129 (ff. 2-130), excluding blanks. 250 x 188mm. Two Italian hands. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. 17th-cent. binding of vellum.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: mid 17th cent.

Spain, General: Venice: Relazione and two Tracts rel. to Spain: late 16th-mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copies.

includes:

  • ff. 1-23 Philip II of Spain: Venice: Relazione of Spain: late 16th cent.: Ital: Copy.
  • ff. 24-65 Philip II of Spain: Philip III of Spain: Advice to his son, Philip, by Philip II: [1598]: Ital: Copy.
  • ff. 66-129 Philip IV of Spain: Political Tracts: Luis Méndez de Haro y Zúñiga, Marqués de Carpio: Tract on the Spanish Monarchy: mid 17th cent.: Ital: Copy.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
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Hierarchy:
032-002029571
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1560
End Date:
1670
Date Range:
Late 16th century-Mid 17th century
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 254, 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:
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Haro y Zúñiga, Luis Méndez de, Marqués de Carpio
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Philip II, King of Spain; King of Naples and Sicily, 1527-1598
Philip II, of Naples and Sicily
Philip III, King of Spain
Philip IV, of Spain, 1605-1665
Places:
Spain, Europe
Venice, Italy