Lettere della Segretaria di Stato d'Innocentio Xmo a Mons[ignor] Caetano Arci[vescov]o di Rhodi nel tempo della sua nuntiatura di Spagna.

[Italy], between 1652 and 1663.

408 leaves : paper ; 267 x 194 (210 x 167) mm bound to 280 x 205 mm
1 microfilm reel : negative (MN 05-22) and positive (Robbins MS 166)

A collection of 191 letters, some copies, 142 of which are from Cardinal Camillo Astalli and 42 of which are from Cardinal Fabio Chigi (elected Pope Alexander VII in 1655). The vast majority of Astalli's letters are dated 1653; the vast majority of Chigi's letters are dated 1654 (a year before he was elected pope). A few seals and addresses are present. Several of the 42 letters from Chigi concern Carlo Massimo's retinue in Madrid (Carlo Massimo was later the patron of Velázquez, Poussin, and other artists). The 142 letters from Pamphili pertain to many aspects of Innocent X's policy toward Spain, notably attitudes towards Cardinal Sandoval (letters 6 and 136), church scandals in Milan (letter 33), the Inquisition (letter 40), and control of Naples (letters 133 and 100). The collection includes a letter to Pamphili about Neapolitan corsairs (letter 138), one to Caetano signed by Cardinal Barberini (letter 25), and 2 letters from Innocent X (letters 79 and 83), one of which is to Philip of Spain. There are also two accounts of legal processes against clerics (letters 109 and 110). Two copies of a printed leaf tipped in between letters 121 and 122 and 145 and 146 bearing the title "Innocentius PP. X. ad futuram rei memoriam" 1663. Many blank or mostly blank leaves.

Ms. documents.
Title fom title page (fol. 2r).
Collation: Paper (multiple watermarks), fol. ii (modern paper) + i (contemporary paper) + 407 + ii (modern paper). Further collation impracticable.
Origin: Written and compiled in Italy during the mid-17th century.
Accompanying materials: A few seals present (fol. 49v, 109v, 110v, and 116v).
Shelfmark: Berkeley, CA, The Robbins Collection, UC Berkeley School of Law, Robbins MS 166.

In Italian and Latin.

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 7570

Manuscript was once in the collection of the Colonna family (their red stamp visible depicting a column within a circle), as well as in the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (his no. 7570). At base of spine below the Phillipps catalog number is a small green dot, 6 mm in diameter.

Bound in contemporary calf over pasteboard (rebacked); gilt-tooled red morocco spine label, "Miscellanea Manus.s."

RESTRICTED ORIGINAL. USE POSITIVE MICROFILM COPY ONLY: Use of original only by permission. Inquiries concerning this item should be directed, in writing, to the reference librarian for The Robbins Collection.

Italy.

Robbins MS 166

Italian