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Add MS 8773
- Record Id:
- 032-002029667
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002029667
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000045.0x0000f9
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8773
- Title:
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MATTEI LETTER-BOOK: Register of dispatches to Cardinal Francesco Barberini and others from Gaspare Mattei, Bishop of Athens, as papal nuncio to Emperor Ferdinand II (8 Aug. 1639 - 2 Apr. 1644); 1640. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Register copies. Recipients include Cardinal Marzio Ginetti, papal legate to Cologne, and his substitute Francesco Maria Macchiavelli, Patriarch of Constantinople, the papal nuncios Ranuccio Scotti at Paris, Fabio Chigi at Cologne, Carlo Rossetti at London, Francesco Vitelli at Venice, and Cesare Facchinetti at Madrid, the Elector of Bavaria Maximilian I, François Nicolas Duke of Lorraine, and others. The dispatches are dated 4 Jan. - 26 Dec 1640. They include copies of few attachments, among which: - (a) ff. 26-27, letters of Emperor Ferdinand II in Latin and Italian, Dec. 1639; - (b) ff. 29-32, letters regarding the question of dispenses of marriage, in Latin, n.d.; - (c) ff. 74v-76, 88v-91, 96-102, 113-114v, manifests and letter of Nicola Duchess of Lorraine, wife of Duke Charles IV, and other papers relating to the question of the Lotharingian succession, in Italian and Latin, 1640; - (d) ff. 148-148v, letter from Emperor Ferdinand II to Pope Urban VIII, in Latin, 26 July 1640; - (e) ff. 213-214, letter to and from François Nicolas Duke of Lorraine, Oct. 1640; - (f) ff. 257v-258, letter from the Carmelite friar José de la Cruz to Cardinal Francesco Barberini, in Spanish, 21 Dec. 1640. Title (f. 1) 'Registro di Cifre della Nuntiatura di Germania [with later insertion 'alli Imperatore'] del Cardinal Mattei al Cardinal Barberino, Segretaria di Stato, Principi, Nuntii, e ad altri nel Pontificato della Sancta Memoria di Urbano Papa VIII dell'Anno 1640', inc. (f. 2) 'Al Monsignor Nuntio di Francia Scotti / Di 4 gennaro 1640 / Realmente ancor io conobbi', expl. (f. 264v) 'A Monsignor Patriarca Macchiavelli. In Colonia / Di Ratisbona li 26 Dec. 1640 ... d'occasione di vedersi con Sua Altezza / Fine della Nuntiatura alli Imperatore del Signor Cardinal Mattei dell'anno 1640'. Owned by Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford, but lacking his armorial bookplate. '390' in pencil in top left corner of front pastedown. Purchased, together with 8699, 8731, 8733, 8765, 8770, 8771, 8774, and possibly 8776, from R. H. Evans, 8 Dec. 1830, lot 390 (part).
Paper; ff. 264+ii. Old foliation in ink '1-263' (ff. 2-264). 281 x 205mm. Horizontal catchwords on each leaf. One Italian hand. 17th cent. binding of full vellum.
- Scope & Content:
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Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 17th cent.
Urban VIII; Pope: Letter-book of G. Mattei as papal nuncio: 1640: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies.
Ferdinand II; Emperor of Germany: Mattei letter-book rel. to: 1640: Ital., Lat., and Span: Copies.
Marzio Ginetti, Cardinal 1627: Dispatches from G. Mattei: 1640: Ital: Copies.
Francesco Barberini, Cardinal 1623: Dispatches from G. Mattei: 1640: Ital.: Copies.
Gaspare Mattei, Bishop of Athens; nuncio to Emperor Ferdinand II: Letter-Book: 1640: Ital., Lat., Span: Copies.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002029667
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002029667
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
Italian
Latin
Spanish - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1640
- End Date:
- 1640
- Date Range:
- 1640
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Custodial History:
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Robert Harding Evans, bookseller: Purchased from (lot 390, 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:
- Barberini, Francesco, the elder; Cardinal; Legate in Spain, 1597-1679
Evans, Robert Harding, bookseller and auctioneer, 1777-1857
Ginetti, Marzio, Cardinal-Bishop of Albano, 1586-1671
Habsburg, Ferdinand II, Emperor of Germany, 1578-1637
Mattei, Gaspare, Bishop of Athens, nuncio to Emperor Ferdinand II
North, Frederick, 5th Earl of Guilford, politician and colonial administrator, 1766-1827,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000034584770
Urban VIII, Pope