Add MS 78244

EVELYN PAPERS. Vol. LXXVII. (ff. 36). Tracts relating to European politics and political theory; 1530-1591, n.d. Copies, late 16^th-early 17^th centt. French, Italian and German.

1. Two tracts relating to Francis I of France; 1530-[1546?]. Copies, early 17^th cent. Italian. ff. 7. Marginal readers’ symbols and notes added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him at the head ‘MS (47)’: (a) ‘L’Essortatione a francesco primo, Re di francia, che si leui dall’ amicitia et intelligentia ch’egli ha’ co’l Gran Turca’, [?1546] (dated 14 May 1546 in Egerton MS 1089, ff. 229-232); - (b) ‘L’escusatione del detto Re’ fatto d’un suo Ambasciatore all Signoria di Venetia’, 1530.

2. ‘Discorso di Ragusa, et di Sauoia’; 1576. Copy, early 17^th cent. Italian. For another copy of the tract on Ragusa see Royal MS 14 A. XIII, ff. 719-727. ff. 8. Marginal readers’ symbols added in other hands. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him ‘MS (43 altered to 44)’.

3. Two political tracts; late 16^th-early 17^th centt. Copies, early 17^th cent. Italian. ff. 15. Marginal notes added in another hand. Docketed by Evelyn, and numbered by him, ‘MS 15’; viz.: (a) ‘Relatione di Gio. Battista Leoni dell’Isola di Malta 1582:’. A copy in Add. MS 48146, ff. 4-31, includes an additional passage (ff. 28v-31) and is dated to the feast day of the three magi [6 Jan.] 1608; and (b) ‘Relatione del Gran Ducato fiorentino’; dated 1576 and in separate title 1592.

4. ‘Discours au Roy: 1580’. Copy, early 17^th cent. French. ff. 4. Docketed by Evelyn and numbered by him, ‘MS (29)’.

5. ‘Brieue Relatione del guiramento del Principe Don filippo fatto in Madrill nella Chiesa di San Gieronimo a xj di Nouembre del 1584:’. Copy, early 17^th cent. Italian. ff. 2. Docketed by Evelyn ‘11 Hist’, and numbered ‘MS (19)’.