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Antonio Maisis: Certificate of creation, notary public
Volume contains certificate, in Latin, bearing large ornate coloured coat of arms. Loose leaves contain translation of text into Italian, and into English.
Articles on international treaties between Popes and rulers, late 16C
A collection of articles in Italian and Latin on international treaties, 1510-59, including agreements between Pope Leo X and the Swiss, and Henry VIII and Emperor Maximilian, 1516, and Pope Paul III and Emperor Charles V, about heresy and Protestantism in Germany, 1546. Â1 volume, Sommario de capitalationi fatte fra diversi Pontefici, et Principi Christiani, Italian and Latin, in a single hand throughout, late 16C; in modern boards
Blennerhassett Papers
Cartulary: Casa delle Donzelle alla Zudecca, Venice
College of Cardinals: Copy Letters
Commonplace Book
Cox Macro Commonplace Books
Commonplace books covering many subjects, including topics in theology, law, governance, the natural sciences, the arts, and human characteristics and relationships.
Descrittione fatta l’ann[o …] tutte l’anime che si trovano nella citta di Venetia (census of the inhabitants of Venice classed by rank or profession)
'Divertimento per cembalo e violino'.
Rondo for violin and piano, MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand.
'Divertim[en]to per cembalo e violino'.
Rondo for violin and piano of overture to Paisiello's opera 'Alcide al bivio' (1780), MS score, Italian, Vincenzo Marra, copyist.
G G Maisis: Citizenship certificate, Bergamo
Volume contains brief family tree (mostly just patrilinear descent) and a document in Italian. Wax seal has image of individual mounted, carrying flag, and is surrounded by phrase 'S Alexander sergomi protector'. Two loose sheets are modern notepaper, one with a transcript of the main document, and one with an English translation of the same, the latter dated Feb 1998.
Giovanni Cibo: 'Genuensium res gestae', History of Genoa
Giovanni Rizzetti: Challenge to Newton's Optical Experiments
The volume contains a draft letter from Rizzetti to Christino Martinelli, c.1720, with a description of Newton's experiment leading to the discovery of the aberration of light, and Rizzetti's experiment contradicting Newton's results; and two diagrams on refraction (p.13), the 'Anatomical composition of the eye' and the 'Aberration in telescopes with different lenses'. There are references to Descartes, Huygens and Tschirnhaus.
Girolamo Venier: Report of the Venetian Ambassador to the Court of Louis XIV
Italian Accounts of the Political Situation in Spain and Italy, 1630-1644
Transcripts from the 17th century of accounts of political and military events in Spain and Italy, 1630-44. The volumes have the book-plates of H.E. Napier and Thomas Hodgkin. The transcripts are accompanied by letters, regarding their provenance: John Bohn to Thomas Hodgkin (1875), Luigi Firpo to Edward C. Hodgkin (1978), and Edward C. Hodgkin to the London Library (1992).
Jardine Matheson Archive
'La partenza della gran duchessa per cembalo e violino'.
A capriccio for violin and piano, MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand. Piano part only.
Letter from Nicolo Dolfin in Venice to Blasio Dolfin in Alexandria
The letter discusses the trade in jewels, pearls, slaves [i.e. enslaved people] and other commodities with the countries of north-western Europe and the Near East. Signed holograph on two sides. Wafer seal on silk.
Lucattinis, Domenico de. Liber de elementis
Manuscript vocal score of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'
Don Juan: eine heroisch Romische Oper in 2 Acten von Weiland W.A. Mozart; im volständigan Klavier-Auszug mit deutschen und italienischen Texte. Copied by Giuseppe Teodoro Rippka from a printed edition [Wien. Im Verlage der K.K. priv. chemischen Druckerey am Graben. No.612, [1812], publ. no.1400].
Monte San Martino Trust Archive
The archive consists of unpublished personal accounts of prisoners of war held in Italy at the time of the Italian Armistice in 1943. The accounts variously detail the individuals' war service, capture and captivity, escape from captivity, and attempts to evade recapture with the assistance of members of the Italian civilian population.
'Nota di certi negozi': Cardinal Savo Millini's Nunciature to Spain
'Note sopra gli appalti camerali': Offices of Profit in the Papal States
Note sopra gli appalti camerali, notes on local office-holders in Papal States, with the label 'Appalti camerali'. The volume covers offices, contracts, fees and expenses, and duties and privileges in the Papal States, with names of current officers and the length of appointment (vi + 187 folios).
Papers of Sir Harry Parkes
Pope Gregory XV: Instructions for Papal Nuncios
'Instruzioni di Roma per diverse nunziature', 27 instructions for papal nuncios in and outside Italy, written in a single hand throughout (428ff.).