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Record Id:
032-002029643
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002029643
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Add MS 8751
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LIFE, WILL AND OTHER PAPERS RELATING TO CARDINAL GIULIO MAZARIN; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copies, 18th cent. The anonymous life of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin (1602-1661) is a version of the so-called 'Anonymous of Turin'. However it lacks the preface and differs in other details from the life published from a MS. in the University Library of Turin by L. Chiala, 'Il Cardinale di Mazarino', in Rivista Contemporanea, iv (1855), pp. 539-584. Other variants of the same life in Add. 8379 (ff. 139-180v; dated 24 May 1659), 20063, 44983, all Guilford MSS., and in Add. 10900, 10906 (ff. 1-71v), both from the Canonici collection. A much shorter life of Cardinal Mazarin in another Guilford MS., now Add. 8375, ff. 56-60v. A list of MSS. in Italian libraries containing a Mazarin's life in U. Silvagni, Il Cardinal Mazzarino (Turin, 1928), pp. 586-587. The other texts in the present MS. are probably spurious: see U. Salvagni in Il Cardinal..., op.cit., pp. 541-544, mentioning another copy of arts 5-7 in Bologna, University Library, MS. 1495 (2704), art. 4. The MS. is listed in Palma di Cesnola, no. 1644, p. 128. Note (front flyleaf) 'No. 20. di Catalogo' by a later hand. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '531' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with Add. 8746-8750, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 531 (part).

1. ff. 1-47. 'Vita dell'Eminentissimo, e Reverendissimo Signor Cardinal Mazzarino'; n.d. Inc. (f. 2) 'Nacque Pietro di Giulio nel Regno della Sicilia', expl. (f. 46v) 'e un sogetto italiano miracolo della fortuna in un regno oltramontano'. Followed (ff. 46v-47) by a list of Cardinal Mazarin's titles under the heading 'Titoli Decorosi'. .

2. ff. 47-56v. 'La malatia dell'Eminentissimo Mazzarini'; n.d. Inc. 'Questo Eminentissimo sposo della Fortuna', expl. 'essendo questo il tenore dell'istrumento di donazione, che Sua Maestà ne farà a Sua Eminenza'.

3. ff. 56v-60v. 'Luigi XIV da Dio dato per la grazie di Dio Re di Francia, e di Navarra'; n.d. Inc. 'Avendo Noi visto, osservato, e maturamente riflettuto', expl. 'che si usano fare da un buon e fedele cristiano, seguì come siegue'.

4. ff. 60v-84. 'Sommario del Testamento dell'Eminentissimo Giulio Mazzarino'; n.d. Inc. 'Primo: Supplica la Sua Maestà di volere accettare in dono tredici bellissimi diamanti', expl. 'che li miei libri donati poco fa a Vostra Maestà contengono nel seno'.

5. ff. 84-116. 'Documenti dati da Mazzarino a Sua Maestà Ludovico XIV'; n.d. Inc. 'Primo: Vostra Maestà in primo luogo dia licenza', expl. 'senza il parere di due di questi uomini di prima classe'.

6. ff. 116-127v. 'Ricordi dati dall'Eminentissimo Giulio Cardinale Mazzarino a Luigi XIV Re di Francia, e di Navarra'; n.d. Inc. 'Vostra Maestà si ricordi di che egli è Re', expl. 'non fu possibile poterne penetrare cosa alcuna'.

7. ff. 127v-137v. 'Morte dell'Eminentissimo Mazzarino'; n.d. Inc. 'La mattina del giorno ottavo di marzo', expl. 'e l'ha fatto singolare con li suoi documenti'.

Paper; ff. 137+ii, plus three unfoliated blanks after f. 137. Modern foliation in pencil '1-137' (followed here), omitting no. 63 and repeating no. 100 twice. 267 x 188mm. Horizontal catchwords on each page. One Italian hand. 18th-cent. binding of vellum. Edges mottled in red and black.

Scope & Content:

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 18th cent.

Giulio Mazarin, Cardinal 1641: Life and other papers rel. to: late 17th cent.: Ital: Copies, 18th cent.

includes:

  • ff. 1-47 Biography: Life of Card. Mazarin: late 17th cent.: Ital: Copy, 18th cent.
  • ff. 60v-84 Wills: Summary of Card. Mazarin's will: late 17th cent.: Ital: Copy, 18th cent.

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
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032-002029643
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Record Type (Level):
Fonds
Extent:
1 item
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Italian
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1700
End Date:
1799
Date Range:
18th century
Era:
CE
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Custodial History:

Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 531, 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
Mazarin, Giulio, Cardinal 1641
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770