Add MS 8658

PAPERS RELATING TO SYRIA, LEBANON, THE HOLY LAND, EGYPT, AND ANTIOCH; 1745-1769. Italian, and Latin. Archival copies, partly printed. Ristretti di ponenze and other papers relating to these territories, and in particular to the relationships between the Latin Church and the Melchites, the Catholic Maronites, and the Coptic Church. Authors of the ponenze are Cardinals Fortunato Tamburini, friar Lorenzo (Giovanni Vincenzo) Ganganelli, Giuseppe Maria Castelli, Nicolò Antonelli, Antonio Andrea Galli, Giovanni Francesco Albani, Giuseppe Agostino Orsi, Giuseppe Spinelli, Giuseppe Francesco Stoppani, Simeone Bonaccorsi, Giovanni Carlo Boschi, and Alessandro Albani. Title (f. 1) 'Soriani / Copti / Greci Melchiti / Terra Santa / Maroniti', inc. (f. 2) 'Ristretto / Monsignor Cornelio di S. Giuseppe, novello Vescovo d'Ispahan propone all'Eminenze Vostre', expl. (f. 409) 'et si quid potest ad conciliandos dissidentium animos conferre satagat / Illustrissimi Cardinalis Boschi Congregationae Relatoris', endorsed (f. 409v) 'Ponenza dell'Eminentissimo Signor Cardinale Boschi / Maroniti'. Among other papers, the MS. includes: - (a) ff. 48-56, two papers relating to the Armenian Catholic monks of the order of St. Anthony the Abbott in the Monastery of St. Saviour on Mount Kesrouan in the Lebanon, in Italian, n.d.; - (b) ff. 221-237, Instructions by the Holy Congregation on the order of the Tertiaries, in Latin, 1767; - (c) ff. 301-303v, relazione of the Latin Church and the Coptic Church in Egypt, sent to the Archibishop of Patras and apostolic nuncio to Venice, possibly Francesco Carafa di Traetto, in Italian, 1763 ; - (c) ff. 310-312, List of books in Coptic taken from Egypt by the Capuchin Friar Raphael of Orleans, in Italian, n.d; - (e) ff. 410-413v, Antiochena Nullitatis Suspensionis. Stantibus &c Dubia. I. An substineatur suspensio Episcopi Baruthen. à dignitate, & jurisdictione, & quatenus affirmative. II. An sit restituendum ad dictam dignitatem, & jurisdictionem in casu &c, Rome, Typis Bernabò, 1764, folio, [4] leaves, in Latin, printed; - (f) ff. 414-421v, Summarium. Alla Santità di Nostro Signore il Papa Clemente XIII. Sommo Pontefice &c, seven documents about the abuses of Tobias Peter, Patriarch of Antioch, Rome, Typis Bernabò, 1764, folio, [8] leaves, in Italian and Latin, printed.

Paper; ff. 425+ii, plus one unfoliated blank after ff. 9, 28, 35, 56, 78, 145, 168, 182, 219, 245, 293, 300, 303, two after ff. 237, 309. Modern foliation in pencil '1-421' (followed here), omitting one leaf after ff. 35, 177, 335, repeating no. 234. 280 x 202mm.

Giovanni Vincenzo Ganganelli, Franciscan Friar; Cardinal 1759; Clement XIV 1769: Ponenze rel. to Syria: circa 1768: Ital: Copies.

Eastern Churches: Papers rel. to relations with the Holy See: circa 1720-1769: Ital. and Lat: Copies, partly printed.

Antonio Andrea Galli, Cardinal 1753: Ponenze rel. to Smyrna, Thira, Syme, Syria and the Holy Land: circa 1765-1766: Ital: Copies.

Giuseppe Maria Castelli, Cardinal 1759: Ponenze rel. to Thira, Syme, Syria, the Holy Land and the Catholic Maronites: 1760-1769: Ital: Copies.

Simeone Bonaccorsi, Cardinal 1763: Ponenze rel. to Andros, Egypt, the Copts and the Catholic Maronites: 1764-1768: Ital: Copies.

Bindings ITALIAN: Full vellum: 2nd half 18th cent.

Church History: Church of Rome; Council of the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical affairs of the Holy See in the Aegean Islands and Middle East: circa 1720-1769: Ital. and Lat: Copies, partly printed.

Giovanni Carlo Boschi, Archbishop of Athens; Cardinal 1766: Ponenze rel. to the Catholic Maronites: 1768: Ital: Copies.

includes:

• ff. 2-10v Fortunato Tamburini, Cardinal 1743: Ponenza rel. to Aleppo: [1745-1769]: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 2-47v, 57-117v Syria: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical affairs of the Holy See in: circa 1745-1769: Ital. and Lat.
• ff. 48-56 Church History: Lebanon: Eastern Churches: Papers rel. to the Armenian monastery of mount Kesrouan: [1745-1769]: Ital: Copies.
• ff. 48-56, 336-409v Lebanon: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical affairs of the Holy See in: circa 1745-1769: Ital.
• ff. 57-64v Nicolò Antonelli, Cardinal 1759: Ponenza rel. to Aleppo: [1759-1769]: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 102-117v Giovanni Francesco Albani, Cardinal 1747: Ponenza rel. to Syria: 1765: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 118-146v Giuseppe Agostino Orsi, Cardinal 1759: Ponenza rel. to the Holy Land: [1759-1769]: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 118-220v, 238-246v Palestine: Papers rel. to ecclesiastic affairs of the Holy See in: circa 1745-1769: Ital. and Lat.
• ff. 170-183v Giuseppe Spinelli, Archbishop of Naples; Cardinal 1735: Ponenza rel. to the Holy Land: 1761: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 221-237 Orders Religious. Tertiaries: Instructions by the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide rel. to: 1767: Lat: Copy.
• ff. 221-237 Church of Rome; Council of the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide: Instructions rel. to the order of the Tertiaries: 1767: Lat: Copy.
• ff. 238-246v Giovanni Francesco Stoppani, Archbishop of Corinth; Cardinal 1753: Ponenze rel. to Smyrna, Siros, and the Greek Melkites: circa 1755-1769: Ital: Copies.
• ff. 238-246v Church History: Eastern Churches: Paper rel. to the Melkite Church: [1745-1769]: Ital: Copies.
• ff. 247-281v, 294-335v Church History: Eastern Churches: Papers rel. to the Coptic Church in Egypt: 1760-1769: Ital and Lat: Copies.
• ff. 247-335v Egypt: Papers rel. to ecclesiastical affairs of the Holy See in: circa 1745-1769: Ital. and Lat.
• ff. 310-312 Catalogues of Libraries, etc: List of books in Coptic removed from Egypt: 1745-1769: Ital.
• ff. 336-421v Church History: Eastern Churches: Papers rel. to the Maronite Church in Lebanon: 1764-1769: Ital: Copies, partly printed.
• ff. 370-371v Alessandro Albani, Cardinal 1721: Ponenza rel. to the Catholic Maronites: [1745-1769]: Ital: Copy.
• ff. 410-421 Beirut, the Lebanon: Two pamphlets rel. to J. P. Stefani, Archbishop of: 1764: Lat. and Ital: Printed.
• ff. 410-421v Church of Rome; Council of the Holy Congregation of the Propaganda Fide: Giuseppe Maria Castelli, Cardinal 1759: Bernabò, printer: Printed Matter: Two pamphlets by Card. Castelli rel. to the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch and the Archbishop of Beirut. Rome: 1764: Lat. and Ital: Printed.
• ff. 410-421v Tobias Peter, Maronite Patriarch of Antioch: Joseph Peter Stefani, Archbishop of Beirut: Two pamphlets rel. to. Rome: 1764: Lat. and Ital: Printed.
• ff. 410-421v Antioch, Turkey: Two pamphlets rel. to Tobias Peter, Maronite Patriarch of: 1764: Lat. and Ital: Printed.