Add MS 8767

CARAFA LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. II. Letters and dispatches from Cardinal Francesco Barberini; 4 Jan. 1631 - 25 Dec. 1632. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Signed, partly in cipher. Title (f. 1) 'Lettere scritte dall'Eminentissimo Signore Cardinale Francesco Barbarino a Monsignor Pierluigi Carafa Vescovo di Tricarico, e Nuncio Appostolico alla Germania inferiore dalli 4 di gennaio 1631 fino alli 25 di decembre 1632', inc. (f. 10) 'Molt'Illustre e Reverendissimo Signor, come fratello. S'hebbe da Ministri di Nostro Signore ... Roma 4 gennaio 1631 / Di Vostra Signoria / Come fratello affezionatissimo / Il Card. Barberino', expl. (f. 451) 'in visita delle fortezze dello Stato Ecclesiastico et a Vostra Signoria m'offero di cuore. Roma 25 decembre 1632 / Di Vostra Signoria / Come fratello affezionatissimo / Il Cardinale Barberino' (see Nuntiaturberichte, op.cit., vol. 3, pp. 3-461 passim). Including original attachments to the dispatches, among which: - (a) ff. 175-176, 228-228v, 239-240, copies of letters relating to the prevost and the chapter of Trier, in Latin and Spanish, 1631; - (b) ff. 183-189, 192-196, four papers relating to the privileges of the Prefect of Rome, in Latin, n.d.; - (c) ff. 290-298v, papers and dispatch relating to a Consistory, in Latin and Italian, partly in cipher, 8-11 March 1632; - (d) ff. 312-313v, printed copy of an encyclical letter by Urban VIII, Unanimi Catholicae Ecclesiae consensu, Rome: Stamperia della Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1632 (see Bullarium Romanum XIV, 286-287); - (e) ff. 362-362v, list of requests of matrimonial dispensations from the Papal Curia, in Latin, n.d.; - (f) ff. 424-428v, copy of relazione of negotiations between the Holy See and Venice relating to the village of Arriano near Ferrara, Nov. 1632. Old table of contents (ff. 2-9) by a later hand. Old shelfmark in ink 'X/v/16' in top centre of first old front flyleaf (f. i). '526' in pencil in top right corner of same flyleaf (f. i).

Paper; ff. 454+ii, plus four unfoliated interleaved blanks after f. 9, two after f. 419, and other 17 unfoliated interleaved single blanks throughout. Modern foliation in pencil '1-452' (followed here), omitting one leaf after ff. 196 and 350. Old foliation in ink '1-246' (ff. 10-451), counting only text and cipher pages, repeating nos. 18, 111, 112, 156, omitting no. 113. 264 x 205mm. Four main scribes, one perhaps identifiable with Camillo Gramineo (ff. 223, 314); summaries of contents at back of dispatches in Carafa's hand. Drawing of Carafa's coat-of-arms on f. 1. With Barberini's papered seals, passim.

Camillo Gramineo, Vatican scribe: Carafa Letter-Books, partly copied by: 1624-1635: Ital.

includes:

• ff. 312-313v Urban VIII; Pope: Printed Matter: Urbanus Papa VIII . . . Unanimi Catholicae Ecclesiae consensu. Rome by Urban VIII: 1632: Ital: Printed.