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COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events in the first half of the 17th century in Italy and elsewhere; 1594-1643. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents (ff. 1-2). Owned ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of treatises relating to dynastic, administrative and ambassadorial matters involving the Papal Court, Naples and Sicily, Spain, and France, during the papacies of Urban VIII, Innocent X and Alexander VII; circa 1623-1667. It...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers; circa 1350-1631. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The collection is separable into two parts. The first part (ff. 3-107v) relates to the Papacy and its relations with Savoy and other Itali...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Rome, Spain, Germany, and Portugal; circa 1634-1640. Italian, Spanish and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes (arts. 7-8) three texts relating to oneiromancy or dream interpretation. Tw...
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RELAZIONI of Rome; 1648-1654. Italian. Copies. The MS. contains the relazioni of Rome during the papacy of Innocent X (1644-1655). The authors are the Venetian ambassadors Giovanni Giustinian (art. 1, ff. 2-110), and Alvise di Nicolò Contarini (art. ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to the Patriarchate of Aquileia; circa 1445-1629. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The collection relates to the dispute between the Emperor Ferdinand II, the Republic of...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Rome and its relationships with Venice, France, the German Empire, Naples, and Ferrara, with particular attention to the protection of the papal state and the city of ...
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SILVIO DE PAULIS: Inventory of the archive of the Castel Sant'Angelo; 1610. Latin. The Archive at Castel Sant'Angelo or Archivum Arcis was established during the papacy of Clement VIII (1592-1605), even though the papal collection of privileges, roya...
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CATALOGUES of the Manuscripts and Books of Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford; after 1817. Greek, Latin, and Italian. For other catalogues of the Guilford collection see Add. 16180, 16181, 16182, 16570, 16572, 16573, 16574, 16575, and 16576. Owned...
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COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, letters, and other papers mainly relating to the negotiations of Cardinal Carlo Carafa and his brother Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano, during the papacy of Paul IV [Giovanni Pietro Carafa]; circa 1555-1619. It...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, relazioni, discourses, and letters relating to Switzerland, Rome, Florence, the Valtelline, Spain, France, the Council of Trent, Venice, Padua, and some moral and religious issues; circa 1562-1621. Italian. Copies....
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POLITICAL ADVICE AND RELAZIONI relating to the Papal Court and Spain; circa 1659-1660. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes anonymous and undated political advice (art. 1) to an unnamed Cardinal-Nepote on how to ingratiate the College of Cardinals, the ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to North Africa, France, Scotland, Mirandola, and Rome; circa 1568-1602. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LV' in pencil in upper right corner ...
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SATIRICAL TRACTS relating to politics in 17th-cent. Europe; circa 1661-1662. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1v) added later. Old signature 'Tom. CV' in pencil in upper right corner of f. 1: identifiable with Mattei MS. 549 (vol. 105 of 'Mater...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome and Portugal; 1640-1669. Italian. Copies. The papers relate to the refusal of the Apostolic See to recognise the legitimacy of the Portuguese Kings and the consequent refusal of the Popes...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, and letters relating to Spain, Venice, France, and Rome; circa 1546-1667. Italian. Copies. Pen-flourished initials on ff. 2, 3, 139, 140, 165, 166. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signat...
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GIAMPIETRO MAFFEI: Annals of Gregory XIII; 1572-1585. Italian. Copies. Annals of the papacy of Gregory XIII (1572-1585), written by the Jesuit historian Giampietro Maffei of Bergamo (1535-1603), and completed, revised and corrected after his death by...
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POLITICAL TRACTS, partly relating to France and Germany; 2nd half of 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old shelfmark '5[52]' almost cancelled in fourth spine compartment; signature in pencil 'Tom. CVIII' in upper righ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other historical papers relating to Persia, Spain, France, Rome and Florence; circa 1537-1666. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1). Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CXI' in upper right corner of ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts, papers and letters relating to Genoa and the Netherlands; circa 1547-1625. Italian and Latin. Copies, partly imperfect. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LIV' in pencil in upper right corn...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Genoa, Venice, Ferrara, Spain, Portugal, Savoy, Naples, and Lombardy; circa 1640-1643. Italian. Copies. Arts. 5 (ff. 79-104v), and 7-10 (ff. 122-191v) relate to Portug...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, Sweden, Tunisia, Alsace, Venice, Spain, and Monaco; circa 1641-1671. Italian, French and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 7) the account of the trial of the Milanese doctor and alch...
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POLITICAL TREATISES relating to Rome, France and Tuscany; circa 1662-1664. Italian. Copies. Most of the present treatises (arts. 1-4) relate to the dispute between France and the Papacy that arose after the attack on the French Ambassador at Rome, Ch...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Portugal, Rome, France, Tuscany, Candia, Venice, Perugia, and Poland; circa 1619-1649. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) manifesto (art. 1) of King John IV of Portugal, 1647; ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Father Nicolò Ridolfi, the burial place of St. Peter and the League against the Turks signed in 1571 by Venice, Spain, and the Holy See, during the papacy of Pius V; circa 1570-1644. Italian a...
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GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. I: Dispatches from Cardinal Panciroli; 17 Sept. 1644 -28 Dec. 1648. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Imperfect. Inc. (f. 1) 'A Monsignor de Bagni Nuntio in Francia / S'inviano a Vostra Signoria in questo dispaccio due L...
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Marcantonio Da Mula: Diplomatic letters to the Doge of Venice (1560-1561); late 16th-early 17th cent. Italian. Copies. Collection of letters sent by Da Mula (see f. 5v) as the Venetian Ambassador to the Holy See in Rome to Doge Girolamo Priuli. M...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of tracts relating to Rome, Florence, Ferrara and Padua; circa 1565-1574. Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i, and '496' in ink in...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political treatises, discourses, satires and other papers relating to Rome, Genoa, France, Germany, Tuscany, and Sweden; circa 1613-1652. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) three treatises (arts. 1-3) relating to amb...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of instructions and relazioni to and from papal nuncios and other representatives of the Holy See relating to France, the peace congress of Cologne, England, Urbino, Senigallia, Tuscany, and the Valtelline during the papacy o...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of political and satirical papers relating to Germany, Turkey, the Papal Court, Poland, France, Spain, and Venice; 1654-1675. Italian and French. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) satirical dialogues and tracts (arts. 1-2, 4, 6...
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RANIERI ZEN: Relazione of Rome; [1623]. Italian. Copy. Ranieri Zen was the Venetian ambassador at Rome from 1621 to 1623 during the papacy of Popes Gregory XV (1621-1623) and Urban VIII (1623-1643). Other copies in Add. 8398 (art. 4, ff. 135-246), 10...
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GIOVANNI PESARO: Relazione of Rome; [1656]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome written by Giovanni Pesaro together with Bertuccio Valier, Alvise Contarini and Nicolò Sagredo upon their return from the extraordinary embassy to the Papal Court in 165...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historic chronicles, relazioni, papal instructions, letters and discourse relating to the Hanseatic League, Monferrato, Great Britain, Rome, Mantua, Spain, India, Florence, Bohemia, Lucca, Modena, Switzerland, Poland, Prus...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papal instructions, relazioni, and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the German Empire, Persia and Turkey; circa 1507-1619. Italian. Copies, 17th cent. Table of contents (f. 1), added ...
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RELAZIONI AND DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS relating to the ambassadorial relationships between the papal court and Spain, Florence, France, and Venice, during the Thirty Years War and the papacies of Gregory XV, Urban VIII; circa 1621-1644. Italian and La...
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ACCOUNTS OF THE REVOLT OF NAPLES IN 1647; late 17th cent. Italian. Copies. A collection of papers relating to the revolt of Naples between 9 and 30 July 1647. The addressee is most probably the Spanish government. Title (f. 1) 'Lettere de Avvisi, et ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, Poland, France, the German Empire, and Spain; circa 1568-1675. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature 'Tom. LVIII' in pencil in upper right corner of f. i,...
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FARNESE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO FRANCE; 1539-1540. Italian. Copies. Correspondence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), nephew of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), containing dispatches relating to his legation as legatus a latere to Franc...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical papers relating to Rome, France, Poland, Savoy, Spain, Bohemia, and Venice, mostly during the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1598-1655. Italian. Copies. Title-pages with pendecoration throughout. Table of contents ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and political treatises relating to Rome, France, Spain, and Portugal; circa 1631-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) satirical tract (art. 1) against Alexander VII; -(b) relazioni and polit...
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ANONYMOUS ACCOUNT of the uprising of students in the Jesuit college at Rome in 1647 at the time of Innocent X (1644-1655); circa 1647. Italian. Copy. The student revolt was prompted by the introduction of stricter rules of discipline by Francesco Pal...
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GUIDI DEL BAGNO LETTER-BOOKS. VOL. II: Dispatches from Cardinals Panciroli, Astalli-Pamphili, Chigi and Rospigliosi; 4 Jan. 1649 -1656. Italian, Latin and French. Inc. (f. 1) 'A Monsignor de Bagni Nuntio in Francia / Del Signor Cardinale Panzirolo. L...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, orations, discourses, notes and accounts relating to the German Empire, Rome, Ferrara, Austria, Hungary, Flanders, Florence, and Spain; circa 1493-1620. Italian, Latin, and Spanish. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. also...
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COLLECTION OF ITALIAN VERSE AND PROSE; circa 1656. Italian. Copy. The collection includes two idylls in praise of Queen Christina of Sweden (arts. 1-2, ff. 1-27v) and two poems in octava rima in praise of Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy (art. 3, f...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and memorials relating to Genoa, Spain, France, Venice, the war of Castro, Savoy, and Portugal; circa 1628-1643. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (ff. 1-1v), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LXXXV' i...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, political tracts, letters and satirical verses relating to the Thirty Years War in Italy and Flanders; circa 1630-1640. Italian and Spanish. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures 'Tom. LX...
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RELAZIONE AND LETTER relating to Spain, Milan, Naples and Sicily; circa 1555-1653. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. ii), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CIX' in upper right corner of f. i: identifiable with Mattei MS. 553 (vol. 109 o...
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COLLECTION of papers and tracts mostly relating to the Leagues between Venice, Spain, and the Holy See against the Turks and to the battle of Lepanto in 1571, during the papacy of Pius V; 1529, 1538, 1570-1572. Italian, Latin and Spanish. Copies, 17t...
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MICHELE LONIGO: Discourses of ecclesiastical etiquette; circa 1608-1644. Italian. Copy. Short tracts relating to problems of etiquette addressed to various cardinals and bishops by Michele Lonigo, deputy Prefect of the Vatican Library and Master of C...
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COLLECTION mainly relating to the papacy of Paul IV, Giovanni Pietro Carafa; circa 1555-1680. Italian and Latin. Copies, 17th cent. Other collections relating to the Pope Paul IV and the Carafa family in Add. 8262 (ff. 203-221v, 599-603v), 8270 (ff. ...
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RISPOSTA A QUATTRO HERETICI; after 1564. Italian. A Roman Catholic riposte to four heretics who for two years had written various books against the Council of Trent’s decree of 1562 on the sacrifice of the mass, inc. ‘Essendosi piu volte veduto che a...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, instructions, and political tracts relating to the Papacy, Urbino, France, England and Spain; circa 1615-1633. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes (art. 5, ff. 122-130) a political tract in favour of the marriage ...
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F. M. [FILIPPO MATTEI ?]: Demonstrations of plane Geometry based on works by Vito Caravelli; 1787. Italian. Autograph. The MS. contains sixteen problems of plane geometry, elaborated from works by the Neapolitan abbot and mathematician Vito Caravelli...
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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to the Papal Court; circa 1554-1610. Italian. Copies. The MS. includes: -(a) discourse (art. 1, ff. 1-96v) relating to the Court of Rome by Cardinal Giovanni Francesco Commendone, dedicated to Girolamo Savorgnan (or Savorgn...
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NICOLA SIGNORILI: 'Descriptio urbis Romae eiusque excellentiae'; circa 1425. Latin. Copy, 18th cent. Relazione of Rome offered to Pope Martin V (1417-1431) by Nicola Signorili, secretary to the Magistrate of Rome. Other MSS. copies in Archivio Colonn...
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FARNESE CORRESPONDENCE RELATING TO FRANCE AND PORTUGAL; 1539-1540, 1560-1564. Italian. Copies, partly in cipher. Correspondence of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese (1520-1589), nephew of Pope Paul III Farnese (1534-1549), relating to France and Portugal. ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of historical treatises, relazioni and letters relating to Rome, France, Venice, Spain, England, and Savoy; circa 1593-1672. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signatures in pencil 'Tom. XCIV' in uppe...
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ANTONIO GRIMANI: Relazione of Rome; [1671]. Italian. Copy. The relazione of Rome by Antonio Grimani, Venetian Ambassador at Rome from 1667 to 1671 during the papacies of Clement IX (1667-1669) and Clement X (1670-1676). Other copies in Add. 8399 (art...
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GIROLAMO LUNADORO: Relazione of Rome; circa 1611. Italian. Copy. Relazione of the Papal Court written by the nobleman Girolamo Lunadoro of Siena, allegedly for a Cardinal de' Medici, possibly Carlo (elected cardinal in 1615). Other 17th-cent. copies,...
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COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS relating largely to military and political events during the last fourteen years of the Thirty Years War in Italy and France; 1634-1648. Italian and Latin. Partly printed. Contemporary index of contents headed 'Indi...
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RELAZIONE of Rome and Petition to the Pope, possibly Innocent X(1644-1655); circa 1644-1656. Italian. Copies. The relazione of Rome (art. 1) relates to the recently elected Pope Alexander VII (1655-1667). Table of contents (f. 1) added later. Old sig...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters and political tracts relating to France, Rome, Germany, Bohemia, and Naples; circa 1619-1660. Italian. One draft (art. 1) and copies. The MS. includes: -(a) letters and treatise (arts. 1-3) relating to Jean Franço...
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NAVAGERO LETTER-BOOK; 1555-1556. Italian. Copy. Register of dispatches to the Doges of Venice Francesco Venier (1554-2 June 1556) and Lorenzo Priuli (14 June 1556-1559) from Monsignor Bernardo Navagero (Cardinal in 1561). The dispatches were sent by...
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DIPLOMATIC INSTRUCTIONS AND RELAZIONI relating to the peace congress in Cologne during the Thirty Years War and the mission of Cardinal Legate Marzio Ginetti; 1636-1641. Italian and Latin. Copies. In 1635 Cardinal Ginetti was appointed by Urban VIII ...
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POLITICAL TRACTS relating to Rome, France, the Valtelline, and Venice during the papacy of Urban VIII; circa 1623-1644. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (f. ii), added later. Old signature in pencil 'Tom. CI' in upper right corner of f. i: identifi...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of letters, papal instructions, and political treatises relating to Spain, Sweden, Savoy, France, Ethiopia, Genoa, and Venice, mainly during the papacies of Gregory XIV (Niccolò Sfondrati, 1590-1591), Clement VIII (Ippolito A...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, papal instructions, and discourse relating to Rome, Siena, France, the German Empire, Spain, Mantua and Monferrato; circa 1554-1636. Latin and Italian. Copies, 17th cent. The MS. includes (art. 1, ff. 4v-81v) th...
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DIARIES OF PAOLO ALALEONA; 1586-1637. Latin. Copies. Alaleona (1585-1638) was Master of Ceremonies at the Papal Court and private cameriere to Paul V, and helped compile the Ceremonial of the Conclaves issued by Gregory XV in 1622. His nine-volume di...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of papers and tracts relating to Rome, France, Spain, Piedmont, Florence, the German Empire, England, Venice, Naples and Sicily, Malta, Bohemia, and Urbino; circa 1542-1653. Italian, Spanish, and Latin. Copies. The MS. includ...
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MAZARIN LETTER-BOOKS: Letters of Cardinal Giulio Mazarin and his secretary Giuseppe Zongo Ondedei; 1647-1651. Italian, Spanish, Latin and French. Copies, partly 18th cent. The letters are mainly addressed to Italian cardinals, princes and captains. R...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, letters and other historical papers relating to the papal court during the papacy of Urban VIII and at the beginning of the papacy of Innocent X; circa 1623-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. The MS. also includes...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni and other political papers relating to Spain, Naples, Liguria, Rome, France and the Empire; circa 1646-1667. Italian and Latin. Copies. Among other things the collection contains (arts. 8-15) relazioni and a sati...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni of Rome, the German Empire, Peru, France, Spain and Naples; circa 1568-1644. Italian and Latin. Copies. Table of contents (f. 1), added later. Old signature in black ink 'Tomo 131' in upper left corner of ff. 2, ...
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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTION of relazioni, discourses, tracts, and letters mainly relating to the Council of Trent and the wars of religion in France; circa 1560-1570. Italian and Spanish. Copies. The MS. also includes: -(a) relazione (art. 1) of Switze...
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RELAZIONI AND HISTORICAL TREATISES relating to France, Savoy, Tuscany, Venice, Milan, Spain, Valtelline, Naples, Parma and Piacenza; circa 1546-1670. Italian. Copies. Table of contents (ff. i and i verso), added later. Old shelfmark in ink '14[2]' in...
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EXCERPTS FROM THE RULES of the Apostolic Chancery; circa 1611 (see f. 67). Latin. Copy. The so-called Regulae Cancellariae Apostolicae were renewed upon the election of a new pope until 1730, when the 72 rules that are now in use were established (cf...
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UNIVERSAL HISTORY; late 17th cent. French and Latin. Universal history from Creation to the late 17th cent., inc. ‘L’histoire est une narration veritable et iuditieuse’, expl. (f. 123v) ‘3o Eleonore Marie de Neubourg née [date cancelled and illegible...
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