Add MS 8711

PANTALEÃO RODRIGUES PACHECO: Address to Urban VIII and other papers; circa 1642. Italian and Latin. Copies. An address to Pope Urban VIII by Pantaleão Rodrigues Pacheco, Professor of Canon Law and member of the Conselho General do Santo Officio (d. 1667). The address (art. 2, ff. 5-29v) and the other papers in the present MS. concern the legitimate right of John Duke of Braganza to the Crown of Portugal as King John IV, and the issue of granting papal audience to the Portuguese Ambassador Dom Miguel de Portugal, Bishop of Lamego, Ambassador to Rome Nov. 1641 - Dec. 1642. Pacheco was a member of the Portuguese delegation of Dom Miguel and he possibly wrote the address while in Rome. The text was published in Italian as Alla Santità d'Urbano VIII. N. S. (Lyon: nella Stamperia de Guilielmi di Giugno, 1642) and then translated into Portuguese and published as Manifesto do reyno de Portugal apresentado a Santidade de Urbano VIII. N. S. ... (Lisboa: Officina de Domingos Lopes Rosa, 1643); B.L. copy 1444.g.4.(1). For Pacheco and his works see M. Bensabat Amzalak, Frei Pantaleão Rodrigues Pacheco e o seu 'Tratado da justa exacção do tributo (Lisbon, 1957), pp. 12-13. The present MS. is entitled (f. 1) 'Alla Santità D'Urbano Ottavo N. S. / Per Pantaleone Rodrighes Paceco del Conseglio del Rè del Portogallo'. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '512' in pencil, reversed in bottom right corner of lower pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8710, 8712, 8713, and 8714, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 512 (part).

Contents as follows:

1. ff. 2-4v. 'Dichiarazione Delli Principi della Casa Reale di Portogallo nominati in questo discorso', genealogy of the Kings of Portugal from Henry I of Bourgogne to John IV; after 1641. Inc. 'Il Conte D. Henrico figlio di Henrico, Nepote di Roberto Duca di Borgogna'. With mention (ff. 4-4v) of the publication in 1641 of the Latin translation of a work on the claim to the throne of Portugal, Jus succedendi in Lusitaniae Regnum Dominae Catharinae (Parisiis, apud Sebastianum Cramoisy, 1641; B.L. copy 1321.h.4)

2. ff. 5-29v. Address to Pope Urban VIII; circa 1642. Inc. (f. 5) 'Santissimo Padre, e Beatissimo Signore / Sotto li sacri Piedi di Vostra Beatitudine supplichevolmente s'inchina questo breve discorso', expl. (f. 29v) 'più memorabile alla presente, & all'età futura'. The text is divided into twelve dimostrazioni. With glosses.

3. ff. 30-33. 'Leges Comitiorum, quae in Lusitania, in Civitate Lamecensi primo celebrata fuerunt', Portuguese laws; 1152. Inc. 'In nomine Sanctae & Individuae Trinitatis ... Ego Alfonsus Comitis Henrici, & Reginae Taresiae filius'. Followed (ff. 31v-33) by the oath of King Alphonse I in Latin.

4. ff. 34-38v. Account of the dispute in Rome on 20 Aug. 1642 between Dom Miguel and Don Pedro Fajardo Zuñiga y Requesens, Marqués de Los Vélez, Ambassador of Spain to Rome; [1642]. Inc. 'Questo secolo nostro è così fecondo di turbolenze', expl. 'questi funesti successi gladiatorij'. For other accounts of the same event in Italian see Add. 8699, arts. 3-5 (ff. 107-273), and 8712, art. 4, ff. 42-58; Eg. 1672, ff. 357-362v (by the Marquis de Fontenay, French Ambassador to Rome).

Paper; ff. 38+xi. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. A faint pencil sketch on f. ii. 18th cent. binding of vellum on limp pasteboards, restored.