Manuscript on paper containing 1) Anthony Jenkinson (1529-1610/11), Relation of a travel to Russia and Persia. 2) Anonymous sonnet in praise of Queen Elizabeth I. Probably an autograph. 3) Anonymous treatise in four parts attacking the apology which Cardinal William Allen (1532-1594) published in 1587 for Sir William Stanley's action in the Netherlands in the preceding year. 4) Accounts regarding tenements; one is headed "Lambeth". 5) Account of a journey through the Middle East, made in 1578 and attributed by another hand to an unrecorded Sir Anthony Standen. 6) Definition of terms related to the Turkish empire encountered in art. 5. 7) Description of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany under Francesco Maria de' Medici (1541-1587). 8) Ferdinand Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of Alva (1508-1582), Proposal addressed to King Philip II of Spain regarding the conquest of Portugal, made 25 May 1579, in English translation. 9) Description of the Benedictine convent of Camaldoli near Arezzo. 10) Short description of England and Scotland. 11) Accounts signed William Garnett; the last one is dated from the 33d year of Queen Elizabeth (1591/1592). The upper outer corner of the page is missing, with loss of text. 12) Collection of state letters. 13) Estate accounts partly dating from 1586/1587 and addressed to unknown person
Description:
In English., Script: Part I (between 1550 and 1600): Art. 1, 3 and the group 5-10 are each written by a different scribe, all writing Gothica Cursiva Libraria (Secretary). The quotations and headings in art. 3 are in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 2 is also written in Humanistica Cursiva. Art. 4 is in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary)., Script: Part II (between 1600 and 1625): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Currens (Secretary), some quotations and headings in Humanistica Cursiva., Script: Part III (between 1575 and 1600): Written by one hand in Gothica Cursiva Formata (Secretary)., and Binding: Seventeenth century (?). Brown (?) sheepskin over pasteboard, rebacked. On the spine the gold-tooled titles (s. XIX-XX) "JENKINSON RELATION 1561" and "STATE PAPERS?? MS.".
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut, New Haven., England, Middle East, Russia, and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Allen, William, 1532-1594., Jenkinson, Anthony., and Standen, Anthony, Sir.
Subject (Topic):
English poetry, English prose literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, Description and travel, History, and Politics and government
The papers are almost entirely concerned with Macartney's embassy to Russia in 1764-1767, and include notes, memoranda, drafts of the trade treaty he negotiated, and a final copy; accounts of travel in Russia and general descriptions of the country, including a treatise on the natural history of Siberia and fossils found there; descriptions of principal figures of the Russian Court and of court protocol; and copies of correspondence and The collection also contains a printed copy of a 1762 decree by Catherine II concerning Alexis Bestoucheff-Rumin; and a dispatch sent by Russia to China in 1792 during Macartney's mission in Peking. Accompanied by a microfilm of the Macartney Papers in the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Description:
George Macartney was born in Ireland and educated at Trinity College. In 1764, Lord Holland proposed him as envoy extraordinary to Saint Petersburg for the negotiation of a trade treaty. Knighted before departing England, Macartney returned in 1767 after concluding the treaty and receiving the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He spent much of the remainder of his career in colonial governorships, including that of Madras, and took his seat in the Irish Parliament in 1788. In 1792 he was sent as plenipotentiary on a mission to Peking, and upon his return from China undertook negotiations with the exiled Louis XVIII in Verona. Macartney thereafter retired from public life due to ill health. and In French and English.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., Great Britain, Russia., Russia, and Siberia (Russia)
Subject (Name):
Catherine II, Empress of Russia, 1729-1796. and Macartney, George Macartney, Earl, 1737-1806.
Subject (Topic):
Diplomatic and consular service, British, Diplomatic and consular service, Russian, Diplomats, Commerce, Foreign relations, Politics and government, Court and courtiers, and Description and travel
Hodoeporicon Ruthenicum and Hodoeporicon Rvthenicvm
Description:
BEIN 2014 2142: Autograph of Joannes Guil: Baro de Küngseckb. [undeciphered] and bookplate of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. and Title vignette (metal cut); head-pieces; initials.
Publisher:
Typis Matthiae Beckeri, impensis vero Ioannis Theodori & Ioannis Israelis de Bry, fratrum germanorum
Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii. German and Moscovia der Hauptstat in Reissen
Description:
BEIN 2011 +124: Bookplate of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Unidentified stamp. Manuscript waste used in binding., Translation by the author from his original Latin edition., Signatures: [superscript pi]A⁴ A-D⁴ E² F-Y⁴ Z²., and Map title: Moscovia Sigmunds Freyherns zu Herberstain, Neyperg und Guetenhag u. verteutscht.
Publisher:
Getruckht zu Wienn in Osterreich durch Michael Zimmerman ...
BEIN Meriden Gravure 837: Dust jacket. Bookplate of the Meriden Gravure Company. From the collection of the Meriden-Stinehour Press., Facsim. of the copy in the Library of Cambridge University (Queens College MS. 25), collated with the variations found in several other MSS. of the author's book., Original t.p. reads: Of the Rvsse Common Wealth; or, maner of gouernement by the Russe Emperour ... London, Printed by T.D. for Thomas Charde, 1591., and Bibliography: p. 65-68.
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Social life and customs, and Description and travel
Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarii and Rervm Moscoviticarvm comentarii
Description:
BEIN 2001 +95: Imperfect: some loss of marginal ms. notes and illustrations due to bleeding. Hand colored illustrations. Contemporary ms. annotations and corrections, possibly in hand of the author (according to dealer slip in CtY-BR copy). Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Dealer description pasted in., BEIN 2014 +259: Imperfect: leaves IIII and X (first count) wanting; leaf ²E6 (blank) wanting; leaves II-III and leaf VIII (first count) mutilated, with some loss of text; wormed in gutter, with no loss of text; binding broken, with loose pages; edges of leaves reinforced with paper. Variant setting of type for dedication on leaf II (first count); 33 lines on recto, 27 lines on verso. Manuscript note, corrections in text, and inscription of Sigmund Herberstein on title page. Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski., Imprint from BM STC German., Dedication dated and signed: Viennae Austriae prima Matrij M.D.XLIX. ... Sigimundus liber Baro in Herberstain, Neyperg & Guttenhag., Includes a map and a portrait of the author engraved by Augustin Hirschvogel; portrait includes Hirschvogel's monogram and the date 1547., and Signatures: A-C⁴, ²A-E⁶, ³A-F⁶ ³G²(-³G2).
