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Add MS 8707

Record Id:
032-002029593
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029593
MDARK:
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LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 8707
Title:

GIOVANNI ANTONIO RUZZINI: Despatches from Spain; 1750-1754. Italian. Copies. 214 dispatches from Giovanni Antonio Ruzzini to Doges Pietro Grimani (d. 7 March 1752) and Francesco Loredan (el. 18 March 1752) and the Venetian Senate, dated 1 May 1750 - 13 Aug. 1754. Ruzzini was the Venetian Ambassador to Spain between 27 Aug. 1750 (presentation of credentials) - 29 Oct. 1754. He was the son of Carlo Ruzzini, Doge of Venice (1732-1735), of whom a collection of dispatches from Constantinople is now Add. 8654. The MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Dispazzi del N. H. Z. Antonio Ruzini Ambasciatore in Spagna da I Maggio 1750 sino' followed by later addition '21 Ottobre 1754'. Inc. (f. 2) 'No .1. / Sola / Serenissimo Prencipe / Porgo a Vostra Serenità, ed a Vostre Eccellenze la riverente notizia di aver io incamminati con la celeste benedizioni i primi passi verso al Real Corte di Spagna ... Padova, li 1 Maggio 1750', expl. (f. 293v) 'No. 214 / Sola / Serenissimo Principe / Dal partir della Squadra francese ... curvi per la calamità de' tempi, e per li pesi passati. Grazie / Madrid li 13 Agosto 1754. Giovanni Antonio Ruzini Ambasciatore'. The dispatches are probably copied from archival copies. Armorial bookplate of 5th Earl of Guilford with shelfmark 'L/16/C' (front pastedown). '332' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8590, 8654, and possibly Add. 8588, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 332 (part).

Paper; ff. 293, plus two unfoliated blanks after f. 100. Modern pencil foliation (followed here), omitting no. 255. Old pagination in ink 1-593 (ff. 2-293), including blanks, omitting nos. 191, 212-217, 355. 350 x 245mm. Each dispatch numbered in the left margin at beginning. One Italian hand.

Scope & Content:

Bookplates and Book-stamps: 5th Earl of Guilford (L/16/C): bef. 1828.

Ferdinand VI of Spain: Dispatches of G. A. Ruzzini rel. to: 1750-1754: Ital: Copies.

Giovanni Antonio Ruzzini, Venetian Ambassador to Spain: Pietro Grimani; Doge of Venice: Francesco Loredan; Doge of Venice: Dispatches rel. to Spain from Giovanni Antonio Ruzzini: 1750-1754: Ital: Copies.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002029593
Is part of:
not applicable
Hierarchy:
032-002029593
Container:
not applicable
Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1750
End Date:
1754
Date Range:
1750-1754
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 332, 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:
Bourbon, Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, called the Learned and the Just, 1713-1759
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Francesco Loredan, Doge of Venice
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Pietro Grimani, Doge of Venice
Ruzzini, Giovanni Antonio, Venetian Ambassador to Spain