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Harley MS 3473
- Record Id:
- 040-002049304
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 040-002049304
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000761.0x0003c5
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Harley MS 3473
- Title:
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Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election; instructions from the Duke of Bracciano for Lodovico Orsino; Michele Suriano, description of England
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 1r-11v: Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election, entitled: 'Laviso all' Ambasciatore di Spagna in Roma del tempo di Paola V. come haverà da servire à S. M. Cat[holica] sede Vacante per L'Electione d'un Papa a suo gusto'.
ff. 12r-23v: Instructions from the Duke of Bracciano for Lodovico Orsino, entitled: 'Instruttione all' Lodovico Orsino per la Corte Catholica mandato dal Duca di Bracciano'.
ff. 25r-95v: Michele Suriano, Venetian ambassador, description of England, entitled: 'Relazione del Cavalier Michele Suriano d'Inhilterra, Serenissimo Principe, Illustrissimo, et Eccellentissimo senato'; dated 1556.
The manuscript contains a later addition:
f. 2r (paper pastedown): Label with title inscription ('Italian Tracts MSS'); added in the Harleian Library.
f. 24r: A title inscription: 'Sir Suriano account of England to the State of Venice 1556'; added by John Covel.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Harley Collection
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "040-002049304", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Harley MS 3473: Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election; instructions from the Duke of Bracciano for Lodovico Orsino;…" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002045828
040-002049304 - Is part of:
- Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts
Harley MS 3473 : Notice to the Spanish ambassador in Rome relating to a papal election; instructions from the Duke of Bracciano for Lodovico… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002045828[3474]/040-002049304
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Italian
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1550
- End Date:
- 1599
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 290-300 x 190 mm (text space: 240 x 170 mm).
Foliation: ff. 95 (+ 1 unfoliated blank paper flyleaf at the beginning + 2 at the end); 1 unfoliated blank paper leaf between f. 11 and f. 12; and f. 24 and f. 25; 1 unfoliated paper pastedown on f. 2r.
Script: Italian cursive.
Binding: British Museum in-house; blind-stamped and gold-tooled brown speckled leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Italy.
Provenance:
John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company at Constantinople 1670-1676: the Roman numerals V (f. r), VI (f. 12r) and XII (f. 24r) correspond with numbered items in the Latin section of his catalogue (now Add MS 22911, ff. 180-183); a title inscription on f. 24r is in his hand; sold with Covel's other manuscripts to Harley for £300 on 27 February in 1716 (see Wright, Fontes Harleiani (1972), pp. 113-114).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.
- Publications:
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A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), p. 31.
Cyril Ernest Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1972), pp. 113-14.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Suriano, Michele, Venetian ambassador, 1519-1574,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000434993514 - Places:
- Italy