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Letter from Nicolo Dolfin in Venice to Blasio Dolfin in Alexandria
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Doc.4120
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
24 Apr. 1420
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Lucattinis, Domenico de. Liber de elementis
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10178
Scope and Contents
Autograph manuscript on paper in Latin and Italian, small quarto, ff. [4 index], 14-237 (foliation skips from 89 to 100 without loss of text), including a few blanks; written in brown ink in a single hand, illustrated with 24 ink drawings, 8 inserted on slips. Illustrated compilation of notes on natural philosophy, cosmology, geography, and magnetism, composed by an Italian student (possibly Tuscany) apparently from lectures attended in 1670. The first part begins with the four elements,...
Dates:
1670
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Manuscript vocal score of Mozart's 'Don Giovanni'
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8886
Scope and Contents
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].
Dates:
1812 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Monte San Martino Trust Archive
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10473
Scope and Contents
The archive consists of unpublished personal accounts of prisoners of war held in Italy at the time of the Italian Armistice in 1943.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.
Dates:
1930s-2010s
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Niccolo Donato: Storia della Repubblica di Venezia
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7332
Dates:
1764
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Nota di certi negozi': Cardinal Savo Millini's Nunciature to Spain
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9299
Scope and Contents
'Nota di certi negozi pendenti in tutto, o in alcuna circostanza circa la nunziatura di Spagna cos lasciati, e motivati dall..Millini per istruzione al nunzio successore', and 'Nota dei egozi principali trattati dal Cardl. Millini nella sua nunziatura di Spagna nel corso di diec' anni', Cardinal Millini's Nunciature to Spain, in the form of pages 135-158 of a longer work (17 chapters on Papal diplomacy and foreign relations), with an index to the whole volume. It is stamped 'Ex MSS. Xav....
Dates:
1675-1699 (Late 17th century)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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Cambridge University Library
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'Note sopra gli appalti camerali': Offices of Profit in the Papal States
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9307
Scope and Contents
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).
Dates:
1695-1710 (Circa)
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Papers of Sir Harry Parkes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Parkes
Scope and Contents
The collection contains a wide range of professional and personal papers. There is an extensive selection of printed and manuscript material collected in Hong Kong, China and Japan throughout Parkes' career. There are also around 750 letters, including correspondence with Sir Rutherford Alcock, Major-General Charles George Gordon, Lord John Russell and Sir Ernest Satow. Most of the personal correspondence addressed to Parkes dates from the last two years of his life, with much of the...
Dates:
circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s); circa 1380-1898 (mainly 1850s-1880s)
Conditions Governing Access:
Any person wishing to consult the collection must obtain written permission from Matheson and Co. Ltd. Applicants may submit their request an application form which is available from the Manuscripts Reading Room and via the University Library web pages at https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/files/jm_application_form_2024_02.pdf. They should state specifically on the form that they desire access to the Parkes Papers.
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Pope Gregory XV: Instructions for Papal Nuncios
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9223
Scope and Contents
'Instruzioni di Roma per diverse nunziature', 27 instructions for papal nuncios in and outside Italy, written in a single hand throughout (428ff.).
Dates:
1621-1623
Conditions Governing Access:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Roger Law Archive
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.10275
Scope and Contents
The title of this archive is somewhat of a misnomer, considering that it incorporates a mix of Roger Law’s personal archive, material donated by his long-time collaborator, Peter Fluck; and the corporate archive of Spitting Image Productions Limited (SIPL). However, the vast majority of these items were held in Law’s possession, following the cancellation of the original series of Spitting Image. Ultimately, the archive represents Law’s professional life, from...
Dates:
1946 - 2024
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Rowe: the papers of John Wilkinson Foster Rowe
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Reference Code: GBR/1058/ROW
Scope and Contents
The collection covers much of Rowe's career and includes job applications, notes, diaries, copies of lectures and copies of his publications. There are also copies of his will and codicils and obituaries.
Dates:
1919 - 1980
Found in:
Pembroke College Library and Archive
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Segni and Medici, Florentine Merchants: Business Letters
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.8963
Scope and Contents
50 business letters, of which 22 are addressed to Niccolo, Gianni and Lorenzo Segni, 1616-25; 2 to Lorenzo Segni, 1625; and 26 to Lorenzo Segni and Francesco Medici, from agents in other Italian cities, on commercial and financial matters. Many have original string ties, seals, addresses and postal markings.
Dates:
1616-1634
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Sinfonia per cembalo'.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9443
Scope and Contents
Rondo, arrangement of overture to Paisiello's opera 'Le astuzie amorose' (1775), MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand.
Dates:
1795
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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'Sinf[oni]a p[e]r cembalo del celebre Maestro Giov[an]ni Paesiello'.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9445
Scope and Contents
Rondo, arrangement for piano of overture to Paisiello's opera 'Elfrida' (1792), MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand.
Dates:
1795
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Sinfonia ... per il cembalo'.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9444
Scope and Contents
Rondo, arrangement for piano of first two movements of overture to Paisiello's opera 'Motezuma' (1772), MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand.
Dates:
1795
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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'Sinfonia ridotta per cembalo'.
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9446
Scope and Contents
Arrangement for piano of an unidentified sinfonia or overture, MS score, Italian, in a copyist's hand.
Dates:
1795
Conditions Governing Access:
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Cambridge University Library
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Vita del Cardinal Mazzarino
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7771
Dates:
C. 1680
Conditions Governing Access:
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Found in:
Cambridge University Library