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15th-century manuscript of the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.14
Scope and Contents
Manuscript produced in Italy containing the 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio, a poem on the loves of Troilus and Criseida in 713 stanzas of ottava rima. The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand by a Florentine scribe.The work itself is preceded by a paragaph explaining the meaning of the name 'Filostrato', followed by an introductory epistle to 'Phylomena'.The text is written with 4 stanzas to a page. The...
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Accounts of the early oriental and classical mythical gods and heroes and Roman Emperors and Empresses, followed by notes on some classical fables.
File
Identifier: MS.3861
Scope and Contents
The author's name appears as Dominicus Tagliaboscus on folio 142 verso, with the date 1702, and on folio 305.
Dates:
1702.
Act I of "L`Ecossaise", a play in Italian and French.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6322
Dates:
late 18th century.
Antonella Bendo, "L`Ammirabile Critonio", Univeristy of Verona thesis.
Item
Identifier: Acc.9107- is now Mf.MSS.438
Dates:
1982-1983.
Balcarres Papers.
Collection
Identifier: Adv.MSS.29.2.1-29.2.9a
Scope and Contents
In the original inventory (a copy of which is at MS.3581, folios 6-7) signed by Thomas Ruddiman, then Underkeeper of the Library, the papers are listed in thirty-eight bundles. Most of these were arranged and bound during the period 1820-1849. Of the remainder, Adv.MSS.19.1.24 and 29.2.9a were bound in 1896, when it was not realised that Adv.MS.19.1.24 belonged to the collection. Adv.MS.16.2.3, now a small quarto volume, had also become separated from the rest of the papers, but can be...
Dates:
1231-1686, and undated.
Composite manuscript consisting of two volumes (folios 1, 75) of copies, circa 1585, 1607, of papers, 1537-1606, in Italian and Latin concerning attempts to restore Roman Catholicism in England in the 16th and early 17th centuries.
File
Identifier: Adv.MS.31.4.15
Scope and Contents
Each volume has a contents list (folios 1, 77) and the second volume has its own foliation added in an apparently later hand.The first volume (folios 1-74) consists of copies (in the same hand), made apparently in or about 1585, of the following:(i) ‘Discorso del Priore d`Inghilterra a Papa Pio V circa la Riduttione di quel Regno’ (folio 2), being an account by Sir Richard Shelley, Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, written apparently early in 1570,...
Dates:
1537-1606.
Copy of Anna Laura Simoni`s thesis, "Uno Scozzese Impopolare: Fionn MacColla", University of Bologna.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11301
Dates:
1995.
“Francia cioè Scritture diverse a quella attenenti raccolte nel presente libro con alter d’Inghilterre”.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.19
Scope and Contents
A volume containing a large collection of historical pieces concerning England, Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, James I, Elizabeth, etc.
Dates:
17th century.
Italian or, more correctly, Tuscan version of the commentary on the 1745 Rebellion entitled ‘Caroli Odoardi Stuardii Walliae Principis Expeditio in Scotiam’ written in four books by Giulio Cesare Cordara, Society of Jesus.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.22.4.18
Scope and Contents
According to the title page (folio 2) this version was made "by the ex-Jesuit NN", but the dedicatory espistle to Francesco Caetani, Duke of Sermoneta, which is dated 1804, is signed presumably by the translator (folio 7) whose name cannot be read with certainty. It is suggested by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton, 9th Baronet, of Abercorn, who published an English translation from this manuscript by Lacy Colleson-Morley for the Scottish History Society in ‘Miscellany of the Scottish History Society’,...
Dates:
1751.
Journal (in Italian) of Arabella Graham Clark.
Item
Identifier: Acc.6046
Scope and Contents
Documenting an expedition in Switzerland.
Dates:
1835.
Late 15th-century manuscript of 'Il Ninfale fiesolano' by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.19.2.13
Scope and Contents
Late 15th-century manuscript produced in Italy containing 'Il Ninfale', or 'The Nymph of Fiesole', of Giovanni Boccaccio, written in ottava rima.The manuscript is the work of one scribe, written in an Italian round hand.Balduino states that the manuscript is incomplete in places and not arranged in the correct order.The work starts on folio 2r and runs to folio 94r.The colophon on folio 94r reads: 'Finito ellibro chiamato ninfale'....
Dates:
Late 15th century.
Letter of John O`Brien, Liverpool, to Giuseppe Garibaldi.
File
Identifier: Acc.10364
Scope and Contents
Mentions statues of Garibaldi donated by George Clark Stanton,
Includes passport, undated, by Garribaldi to Stanton.
Dates:
1860.
Manuscript of Francesco Marcaldi's work on Mary, Queen of Scots.
Item
Identifier: MS.8890
Scope and Contents
Other copies of this work are entitled 'Dello Stato della Regina di Scozia', or 'Narratione del stato della Regina di Scotia'. This is one of about thirty copies of the work, each written in Francesco Marcaldi's hand, but each with a different date and a different dedication. The preface in this copy is dated at Venice, 14 March 1580, and is addressed to Domenico Barbarigo.Marcaldi seems to have written it as propaganda in Mary's favour. See S. Rossi, 'Tre Narrazioni...
Dates:
1580.
Microfilm of 15th century manuscript, 'Filostrato' of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.213
Dates:
2nd half of 15th century.
Microfilm of ‘Imago mundi’ by Honorius of Autun; ‘Speculum regum’ by Godfrey of Viterbo; and, an anonymous poem ‘De laude civitatis Laudae’. A manuscript written in Italy in the late 13th or early 14th century.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.883
Dates:
Late 13th century-early 14th century.
Microfilm of report on Scotland entitled, "Discorso notabile sopra le cose di Scotia, doue si sa il modo col quale si potrebbe estirpare I'heresie di quei due Regni: et habilitar ii Re di Scotia sendo catt[co] alla Successione del Regno d'Inghilterra do po la presente Regina".
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.2058
Dates:
?1595-?1602.
Microfilm of romance of the lovers Pamphilia and Deiphebo.
Item
Identifier: Mf.Sec.MSS.846
Dates:
Early 16th century.
"Obblighi che devono osservare li Fratelli e Sorelle dell` Archiconfraternita del Santissimo Nome di Maria"; a presentation copy made for Maria Clementina Sobieski, in an embroidered binding.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11210
Dates:
1731.
Papers concerning a translation by Hamish Henderson of Antonio Gramsci "Lettere dal Carcere".
File
Identifier: Acc.10616
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence.
Dates:
1951-1974.
Papers of Hamish Henderson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10327
Scope and Contents
Includes manuscript drafts of and introduction to Henderson`s translation of Antonio Gramsci, "Letter dal Calcere", and an annotated copy of the original Italian edition of the work.
Dates:
1948-1987.
Photocopies of papers connected with the process of canonizaton of St John Ogilvie.
File
Identifier: Acc.7251
Dates:
20th century.
‘Relazione della citta di Ginevra’ by Andrea Cardoino, an Italian Catholic.
Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.29.5.1
Scope and Contents
See letter of J D Candaux, 15 February 1965.
The description of the manuscript in the folio catalogue (F.R.186) includes the reference: w.4.8.
Dates:
17th century.
Report on Scotland entitled, "Discorso notabile sopra le cose di Scotia, doue si sa il modo col quale si potrebbe estirpare I'heresie di quei due Regni: et habilitar ii Re di Scotia sendo catt[co] alla Successione del Regno d'Inghilterra do po la presente Regina".
Item
Identifier: MS.2615
Scope and Contents
The report was sent, after 1594 and before 1603, by an Italian emissary to a superior, and gives an account of the attitude of King James VI and various nobles and of the activities of Roman Catholics.
Dates:
?1595-?1602.