Volume 1

Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum.

  • British Museum. Department of Manuscripts (Stowe MSS)
Date:
1895-1896
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Catalogue of the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    75/850 page 55
    the Societe Tmperiale des Sciences, etc., de Lille, under the title, Inventaire Analijtique et Chronologique des Archives de la Chambre des Comptes a Lille, Paris and Lille, 1865. Paper; ff. 353, 318. Purchased by Thomas Astle 24 May, 1793, at the sale of the library of M. de Calonne, Prime Minister to Louis XVI. (see vol. i. f. 1). Folio. 94. “ CoMMENTAiRE ou diumal de I’expedition de Thunes faicte par le tresauguste et tresvictorieux Empereur Charles cinqiesme ”: a narrative by an eye-witness of the expedition made by Charles V. in 1535 against Khair al addin Barbarossa, Dey of Algiers, to punish and suppress piracy, in which Tunis was captured and plundered. In a contemporary hand. Paper; ff. 79. xvith cent. A note by Thomas Astle (f. 1) states that the volume was bought by him at Lisle in 1774. Octavo. 95. ‘‘A MEMORIALL of a discourse vsed by the late worthy Emperour Charles the Vth vppon the resignement of his gouermente and stats [in 1556] to his sonne [Philip II.] the now kinge of Spaine”: a translation from the Spanish by Lord Henry Howard [cr. Earl of Northampton, 1604], with preface addressed to Queen Elizabeth (see below, no. 161, art. 1). For other copies see Harley MSS. 836, 1056, and Cotton MS. Titus C. xviii. Paper ; ff. 25. xviith cent. With signature of John Gybbon on the fly-leaf, and a note of books “lent to Mr. Gun ton, Feb. 16, 1648 [9]” on f. 2. Folio. 96. Eelazioni and other papers relating to Italy and Spain ; 1620-1634:— 1. Memoir on the Venetian republic, addressed to Philip IV. of Spain in 1620 by Don Aloiso Cueva, Spanish Ambassador in Venice, dealing with (a) the possessions and dependencies of Venice, (b)its revenues and expenditure, (c)its land and sea forces, (d) the constitution, administration, and general character of the state. Italian. fl‘. 3-45. 2. “ Eelatione di Eoma,” made to the Senate of Venice, 22 Nov. 1623, by Eainiero Zeno, dealing with the character and position of the new Pope, Urban VIII., and his relatives and the officials sur- rounding him, and his relations with various princes. Italian. ff. 46-84. 3. “Eelatione della Corte di Eoma e di Eiti da osservarsi in essa, e suoi Magistrati e Offitii con la loro distinta giurisditione ”; circ. 1630. Italian, ff. 85-124. 4. Account of the Papal residences, ceremonial, etc., with short sketch
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3